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 ...
Almost as bad as global warming.
“What if little frogs had wings?”
They’d be eight bucks for a dozen at Buffalo Wild Wings.
The only thing dumber than him are the people who voted for him.
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
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...........
Well it hasn’t done so in 10 years, but perhaps it may at some point in time.
Yes and the Trinity test was supposed to set the atmosphere on fire.
Oddly, it just blew up.
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.
“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.
Decisions, decisions.
330 feet 2 inches to be exact.
Let’s try that and see what happens.
Wouldn't the Universe testify that it's not catastrophic if it doesn't swallow?
Oh wait...I was miss-remembering 1998...
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