ALERT! World’s Largest Supercollider Could Destroy the Universe | |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 310745 United States 11/16/2007 01:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why would they do something so risky. Especially if there understanding of the universe is incomplete. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 316909We don't know how blackholes will react under an atmosphere. What if they only die out in a vacuum of space? Very good point. This needs to be a very large concern among humans. This kind of stuff makes theories of 2012 seem very realistic. |
PACNWguy User ID: 60206 United States 11/16/2007 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They also said if you went over a hundred miles an hour it would kill you. Then they said if you went faster than the speed of sound, it would kill you. Then they said.... OBAMA - THE FASTEST FAILED PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY "I inherated and I am Great!" |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 310745 United States 11/16/2007 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They also said if you went over a hundred miles an hour it would kill you. Quoting: PACNWguyThen they said if you went faster than the speed of sound, it would kill you. Then they said.... Yah exactly.. then they didnt say anything because Earth was destroyed. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 327311 United States 11/16/2007 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why would they do something so risky. Especially if there understanding of the universe is incomplete. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 316909because they are primitive and stupid humans. they don't understand the universe, yet want to create their own lil' "big bang". they should FIRST understand the universe and MAYBE then use such a tech. everything else is suicide. |
Sireen-reborn User ID: 316770 United States 11/16/2007 02:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is this anything like the what's described in the book "Angels and Demons"? anything after 'but' is bullshit! [link to www.myspace.com] "Once you open your mind to the possibility of conspiracy, you then see conspiracy in everything." [link to deadbydecember-sireen.blogspot.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 327311 United States 11/16/2007 02:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They also said if you went over a hundred miles an hour it would kill you. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 310745Then they said if you went faster than the speed of sound, it would kill you. Then they said.... Yah exactly.. then they didnt say anything because Earth was destroyed. same with the first nuke bombs: gov.:"hm, wonder if how this tech works...hmmm...let's try to biuld a bomb outta it and use it over japan..let's see what happens." [mil. uses nuke bombs over japan] gov.: ohhhhhh! how destructive this thing is...i didn't know...whoa! nice! let's build some more and even stronger and bigger one!" humans don't think and understand before they do something and then wonder why it went wrong...stupid and primitive. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 310745 United States 11/16/2007 02:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the universe was going to explode at the energies produced by this thing, it would already have done so. Earth gets hit constantly by much more powerful cosmic rays emitted by matter spiraling into black holes. Quoting: ThanatosAnd by saying this do you confirm a black hole has existed right here on earth? what is a black hole? what could be the effects of one? NO ONE KNOWS |
Thanatos User ID: 324533 United States 11/16/2007 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is this anything like the what's described in the book "Angels and Demons"? Quoting: Sireen-rebornThat was antimatter. The main cause for worry here is a black hole that will sink to the core of the Earth and implode it, or a Strangelet that would cause a chain reaction that would convert Earth to energy and more Strangelets. Physics suggests that small black holes are unstable and that Earth isn't dense enough to make strange matter grow, and observations of the energies of a subset of cosmic rays suggests that if it was going to happen it already would have. You might be able to use a Strangelet as a weapon with which to kill stars, if you could make them and the laws of physics are such that it would work...but the antimatter factory conjured up by Dan Brown would require a rewrite of several important theories and even then it would just take out Switzerland. Rarrgh! |
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fërú. User ID: 327482 Mexico 11/16/2007 09:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to techfreep.com] Quoting: In May 2008 310745This machine is set to launch in May 2008 [link to en.wikipedia.org] As the Cernier company prepares to test the world’s largest supercollider physicists express concern that too much is being left to chance. The Cernier Company or CERN, the world’s largest physics research firm, is currently in the process of building what would be the world’s largest working supercollider. Known as “Large Hadron Collider,” or LHC, the device is 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) long and resides in a tunnel approximately 100 meters beneath the Franco-Swiss border, just outside of Geneva. By accelerating protons toward each other at 99.999999% the speed of light the LHC can recreate conditions similar to those that resulted from the Big Bang, ultimately alighting a great deal about the particles and forces that comprise our Universe. A press release from CERN better illuminates their intent for the project: …Our current understanding of the Universe is incomplete. We have seen that the theory we use, the Standard Model, leaves many unsolved questions. Among them, the reason why elementary particles have mass, and why are their masses different is the most perplexing one. It is remarkable that such a familiar concept is so poorly understood. LHC functions by accelerating two counter-rotating beams of protons toward each other at high speeds. By cooling magnets to near absolute zero (-273 degrees celcius) with an enormous cryogenics system, the LHC can move particles toward each other at speeds only one millionth of a percent away from the speed of light. And while Physicists have the logistics of the LHC well in hand ideas about its outcome are strictly theoretical. According to one scenario tiny black holes could be produced which hopefully would decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates). If these black holes fail to decay, however, the consequences could be disasterous. CERN software developer Ran Livneh has expressed some concerns about the project: This physical realm is unknown, and dangerous phenomena might arise…Any physicist will tell you that there is no way to prove that generated black holes will decay. The consequences of being mistaken are unfathomable. This subject deserves serious unbiased discussion. Despite these theoretical discrepencies the LHC project will continue as scheduled toward its launch in 2007. Mankind has never progressed itself due to fear of the unknown. Although the results of the Large Hadron Collider could potentially be disasterous, the intellectual consequences of not conducting the experiment could be equally so. so if we unite the dots... a doomsday sect says end of world is May 2008 We will reach 6.66 billion humans over the planet in May 2008 so went the beast reach that human number something will happen.... maybe this recreation of Big bang is whbat will happen.. maybe they will open something Enki was the real engineer of the human race. He was the Sumerian god of science, engineering, magic, strategy, music, and lovemaking |
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Halcyon Dayz User ID: 325932 Netherlands 11/17/2007 04:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A 2-proton-mass black hole would have an absolutely tiny event horizon and a positive electric charge. So even if it didn't evaporate, it would only absorb electrons it happened to bump into. About once in a million years. Just switch of the power and it falls to the centre of the earth. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Reaching for the sky makes you taller. Hi! My name is Halcyon Dayz and I'm addicted to morans. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 327405 United States 11/17/2007 06:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If memory serves...that Titor fella mentioned something about this.... Quoting: dookie stain 317540First thought that came to my mind too. Should we be con"cern"ed yet? I always get a bad feeling about potentially Universe destroying experiments. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 281483 United States 11/17/2007 08:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Damages credibility to say, "could destroy the universe". There are supermassive blackholes at the center of every galaxy. Rather than a destroyer of life these blackholes seem essential for galaxies to be as they are. It's just crazy to say it'd suck up and destroy the whole universe. So the only thing really is that very tiny chance that we'll turn our solar system into a black hole. We've been doing trial and error for a long time... we'll see what that destiny holds for us. |
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anonymous coward User ID: 327638 United States 11/17/2007 08:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Accidents happen, and since it's likely that we were created by some sort of accident, how ironic that we may be also destroyed by one. The Sandia "Z" Machine has had to be shut down at least one time previously because it began releasing much more energy than it produced. There was concern that it had created a "white hole", an inter dimensional breach. Some theorists believe that quasars are dimensional breaches. Such an event would destroy everything for several parsecs, completely obliterating our entire solar system and beyond. Since, we don't seem to have the intelligence to handle the technology we already have, I believe it's only a question of time until we destroy ourselves. Either, by accidently releasing a weaponized virus, creating a an artifical intelligence that takes over, i.e., the Forbin Project, of making a huge miscalculation with a super collider and blowing up the solar system. Out only alternative is to party, while there is still time. Life may be shorther than you think... |
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9net User ID: 327656 Israel 11/17/2007 09:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would wait for a few decades for a solid theoretical framework to appear for this,before starting some high energy experiments.Gravity is least explored force in physics,and many exotic concepts: black holes,dark energy,spacetime, rely on some type of gravity behaving according to theory. The theory is weakest link. What i think is that gravity is not the weakest force(in standard model) but its component of larger force,the other part of which reduces gravity,but is marginally weaker.Kind of second force canceling the most power out of gravity. |
blaquejacque User ID: 226444 Canada 11/17/2007 10:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WOW, destroying the universe would really draw the notice of everybody heh? We would be in the great Encyclopedia Universalis under both the headings "idiot savant" and "stupid" but at least we would be in there... And drawing the entire universe down with us would be so human... |
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