Posted on 09/30/2018 4:11:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"Maybe a black hole could form, and then suck in everything around it," he wrote. "The second scary possibility is that the quarks would reassemble themselves into compressed objects called strangelets."
"That in itself would be harmless. However under some hypotheses a strangelet could, by contagion, convert anything else it encounters into a new form of matter, transforming the entire earth in a hyperdense sphere about one hundred meters across."
As if this wasn't bad enough, the atom smasher might even be capable of destroying space itself.
"Some have speculated that the concentrated energy created when particles crash together could trigger a 'phase transition' that would rip the fabric of space," Rees wrote
(Excerpt) Read more at unexplained-mysteries.com ...
Sounds like a Dr. Who plot.
Well, THAT’s encouraging...
I remember when they were building the collider some man who had no background in science was interviewed. He was desperate to stop them because he thought it would create a black hole and destroy the Earth. He thought that just because he was upset that the whole project should stop. He expected to be taken seriously.
This may be a good thing.
If it prevents liberals from polluting the galaxy, it might be worth it.
"Can it tip Guam back rightside up?
Well the hyperdense egos of politicians will act as an offset to the collider’s side effects and will act as a counterforce to help the Earth keep its proper form. At last we’ll have found some meaningful work for congress and senate to do!
His name wasn’t Blasey-Ford by any chance?
So, about the size of a football field, then.
"Trump" [טראמפ] = 330
"This would be a cosmic calamity not just a terrestrial one."
:-)
Night Gallery episode with William Windom sort of situation.
About as believable as man made global warming.
That only works if you are a liberal woman.
The Universe is going to get swallowed up! Where is it going?
The key that this is bull is that it might swallow up space itself.
Sorry. Space is the convenient name given to the absence of matter, so there is nothing to swallow up.
” when particles crash together could trigger a ‘phase transition’ that would rip the fabric of space,” Rees wrote”
Sounds like an intergalactic “cutting of the cheese”.
That cat is dumber than a bag of hammers
Sounds like an intergalactic “cutting of the cheese”.
Or perhaps, “ripping the Universe a new one”
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