Well as many of you probably know scientists are going to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang in Switzerland tomorrow using somthing called "Large Hadron Collider" LHC for short =P
But what is it acutally going to be doing? Isnt it a possitive and negative matter going around a 14 mile loop at high speed that will eventually meet trying to create an anti-matter?
I have also heard german scientists saying that this machine will create a black hole and we will be instantly sucked in... lol Sounds pretty crazy but seeing as we dont know fully what is going to happen isnt there a slight possiblity?
heh Its a pretty interesting topic so thought i would post :)
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 Sep 9 2008, 9:05 am
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The possibility of it creating a black hole, sucking in the Earth is about the same as the possibility of your nose jumping off your face and walking away. Best wear a rubber band around your face, just to be safe, right?
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'I have a cold! My nose is running!'
"Must be the LHC again." Hilarity ensues. | |
Danial.Beta wrote:
sucking in the Earth is about the same as the possibility of your nose jumping off your face and walking away. Best wear a rubber band around your face, just to be safe, right? Haha i know it is stupid but just somthing that people were talking about, you would be suprised how many people on the web are asking the question "Is the world going to end tomorrow" lol or not, this is the web i guess =P | |
The people who are asking if the world is going to end need to learn more about particle physics. Shooting protons at one another will not end the world.
Also, it's not positive and negative matter going around a loop. Even if that were the case, that's not how you make antimatter. Leptons and Hadrons don't make Anti-Matter Hadrons, they made ATOMS. | |
It's mostly to discover new subatomic particles and potentially discover new dimensions. People keep overlooking the possibilities of the project by saying it will do dangerous things; something very unlikely.
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Jeff8500 wrote:
and potentially discover new dimensions. The LHC has nowhere near the energies to probe anything at the Planck length, where string theory predicts extra dimensions should be. | |
Popisfizzy wrote:
Jeff8500 wrote: Then the media lied to me...again. I'm really starting to hate them. | |
They're smashing particles into each other really fast, because the very messy byproducts of the collision may (and probably will) tell us interesting things about the nature of reality. The Higgs Boson, for example, would be a very big discovery. Or non-discovery, if we didn't find it. Either way, it'll change particle physics.
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I'd be pretty miffed if they didn't find anything out with this thing, after I invested my 401k in it. Fortunately, I don't have any money to donate to science.
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AnNoYaNcE.FaCtOr wrote:
Shooting protons at one another will not end the world. But if it did happen you wouldn't have time to eat those words :( :P I hope they find the Higgs particle which according to Dr Hawking "they should find it" | |
Actually Stephen Hawking (who is a professor) bet against finding it.
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"The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four. According to present thinking, this should be enough to discover the Higgs particle," Hawking told BBC radio.
http://www.physorg.com/news140161003.html | |
Actually read the article: he bet against it. He may think that present thinking is wrong.
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Hawking bet against what he thinks should happen <_<
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"The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four. According to present thinking, this should be enough to discover the Higgs particle," Hawking told BBC radio.
http://www.physorg.com/news140161003.html | |
Are we getting sucked in through a black hole? Sounds unpleasant.. I didn't agree to any of this >.>
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Ruben7 wrote:
Are we getting sucked in through a black hole? Sounds unpleasant.. I didn't agree to any of this >.> No, we're not. God fucking damn it, stop being stupid (you and humanity in general). | |
Only German scientists who happen to work for newspapers have been saying this: similar collisions to the LHC experiment happen naturally all the time in the earth's atmosphere and no Earth-eating black hole has been created thus far. Additionally, if a black hole was created it would almost instantly evaporate.