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Hadron Collider could 'shrink Earth to 330ft'
unexplained-mysteries.com ^ | 09/30/2018

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 ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cern; helpmerhonda; largehadroncollider; lhc; ohsomysteriouso; ridiculousbs; stringtheory
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To: BenLurkin

Almost as bad as global warming.


41 posted on 09/30/2018 5:28:48 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Islander7

“What if little frogs had wings?”

They’d be eight bucks for a dozen at Buffalo Wild Wings.


42 posted on 09/30/2018 5:39:17 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: moovova
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The only thing dumber than him are the people who voted for him.

43 posted on 09/30/2018 5:46:27 PM PDT by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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To: I want the USA back

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.


44 posted on 09/30/2018 5:48:52 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: BenLurkin
Hadron Collider could 'shrink Earth to 330ft'

All this dieting I've been doing, and all I could have done is take one hadron collider and call you in the morning? Damn...........

45 posted on 09/30/2018 5:49:39 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
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To: BenLurkin

Well it hasn’t done so in 10 years, but perhaps it may at some point in time.


46 posted on 09/30/2018 6:07:35 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: BenLurkin

Yes and the Trinity test was supposed to set the atmosphere on fire.

Oddly, it just blew up.


47 posted on 09/30/2018 6:24:37 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Regulator

If a black hole was indeed generated, it would be extremely miniscule. The lifetime of a black hole is proportional to its mass raised to the fourth power. Such a black hole, with not even a microgram of mass, would evaporate almost immediately. Maybe, just maybe, the bubble chamber will capture its trail as it evaporates into oblivion.
This is tied in with the Hawking Radiation.


48 posted on 09/30/2018 7:02:51 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: WMarshal

“I highly doubt that the hadron collider could exceed the natural processes occurring naturally in the center of the Sun.”

You can doubt it, but you’d be very wrong. We concentrate more energy into small spaces than nature can, except in black holes, big bangs, big crunches, and other exceptional natural events. The center of a healthy, burning sun is a fairly tame environment.


49 posted on 09/30/2018 7:11:10 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: BenLurkin
If I perform my proposed high energy physics experiment, I could create a black hole that would cause the earth to collapse into a small ball. However, if I don't perform the experiment, I might not get my PhD.

Decisions, decisions.

50 posted on 09/30/2018 7:36:58 PM PDT by TChad
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To: usconservative

330 feet 2 inches to be exact.


51 posted on 09/30/2018 8:25:11 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: BenLurkin

Let’s try that and see what happens.


52 posted on 09/30/2018 9:50:46 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INodNZY5ytE


53 posted on 10/01/2018 4:56:45 AM PDT by samtheman (Lets elect as many Republicans as possible in 2018)
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To: I want the USA back
"The key that this is bull is that it might swallow up space itself."

Wouldn't the Universe testify that it's not catastrophic if it doesn't swallow?

Oh wait...I was miss-remembering 1998...

54 posted on 10/01/2018 9:44:17 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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