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Black Holes...no worries!
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 19:14
by MORDETH LESTOK
I thought Friz was joking about this when he first told me...but here it goes...The End of The World....tomorrow!
Will the Large Hadron Collider save the world, or destroy it?
As the atom-smasher at Europe's CERN research center is readied for its official startup on Wednesday, researchers might wish that the general public was captivated by the quest for the Higgs boson, the search for supersymmetric particles and even the evidence for extra dimensions.
But if the feedback so far is any guide, the real headline-grabber is the claim that the world's most powerful particle-smasher could create microscopic black holes that some fear would gobble up the planet.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556999/?GT1=43001
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 19:24
by spoodie
Don't worry about the black hole thing, they have atomic Polyfilla that'll sort that right out.
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 21:30
by Sol
Not proton smashing tomorrow, just a test run... No black hole, sorry!
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 21:46
by TezzRexx
Cocks of glass!
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 22:14
by Joose
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 22:18
by Dr. kitteny berk
LHC: Running on Valve Time™
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 22:19
by Joose
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:LHC: Running on Valve Time™
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 22:37
by spoodie
Wiki says that proper proton smashing will occur in October, test results depending I suspect.
Tomorrow is just another test. Around the whole ring this time.
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 1:20
by deject
If anyone actually thinks this thing is going to destroy anything they're just retarded. It's not going to make any black holes big enough to affect anything except maybe the sensors built to detect them. The mass of the particles inside it don't have enough mass to attract anything really.
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 8:10
by Killavodka
Plus the fact that black holes / strangelets are theories. If there were any chance of the LHC creating a black hole we would have already seen some being formed from the estimated 3.10x1013 LHC programmes (that's the entire amount of crashing over the 20+ years that the LHC will be running) per second in the universe today.
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 9:31
by friznit
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story! Black holes selectively wiping out all the chavs South East England created by the biggest ring since goatse!
And ffs Killa, you bloody critters keep wiping out my colonies
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 9:36
by Baliame
Has it started yet? I don't quite feel sucked in yet!
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 10:41
by Hehulk
Hours ago. BBC had a live thing for 0830 GMT+1 when it went online
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 11:01
by Killavodka
friznit wrote:And ffs Killa, you bloody critters keep wiping out my colonies
Disclaimer: I claim no responsibility for the actions of my minions!!!
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 11:23
by spoodie
Brian Cox - Sciencer wrote:Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 11:25
by Dog Pants
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 14:53
by MORDETH LESTOK
John Huth wrote:a scientist who works on the collider's ATLAS experiment, called such fears "baloney" in a recent interview
lol...they use such big words...
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 15:13
by MORDETH LESTOK
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It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.
CERN was backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking , who declared the experiments to be absolutely safe.
So...they can blame it on you guys if anything goes wrong
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 15:22
by Dr. kitteny berk
MORDETH LESTOK wrote:So...they can blame it on you guys if anything goes wrong
Meh, only reason Hawking is famous is because he's a Flid, don't blame us for anything he said.
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 17:48
by HereComesPete
That and the fact that he's not dead yet.*
*mostly
