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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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1 posted on 09/30/2018 4:11:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like a Dr. Who plot.


2 posted on 09/30/2018 4:12:41 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, THAT’s encouraging...


3 posted on 09/30/2018 4:12:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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4 posted on 09/30/2018 4:13:45 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


5 posted on 09/30/2018 4:14:37 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: BenLurkin

This may be a good thing.

If it prevents liberals from polluting the galaxy, it might be worth it.


6 posted on 09/30/2018 4:15:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: BenLurkin
Yes, but the Hankster wants to know...

"Can it tip Guam back rightside up?


7 posted on 09/30/2018 4:16:58 PM PDT by moovova
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To: BenLurkin

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!


8 posted on 09/30/2018 4:17:17 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Gen.Blather

His name wasn’t Blasey-Ford by any chance?


9 posted on 09/30/2018 4:17:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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10 posted on 09/30/2018 4:18:43 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BenLurkin

So, about the size of a football field, then.


11 posted on 09/30/2018 4:21:31 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin
Well then, as a big fan of Hebrew letters, let me be the first to point out that:

"Trump" [טראמפ] = 330

"This would be a cosmic calamity not just a terrestrial one."

:-)

12 posted on 09/30/2018 4:21:37 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: BenLurkin

Night Gallery episode with William Windom sort of situation.


13 posted on 09/30/2018 4:23:37 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: BenLurkin

About as believable as man made global warming.


14 posted on 09/30/2018 4:28:08 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Gen.Blather

That only works if you are a liberal woman.


15 posted on 09/30/2018 4:28:40 PM PDT by deepestsouth1
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To: BenLurkin

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.


16 posted on 09/30/2018 4:35:59 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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” 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”.


17 posted on 09/30/2018 4:38:15 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: moovova

That cat is dumber than a bag of hammers


18 posted on 09/30/2018 4:38:39 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: BenLurkin
Damned hippie physicists... you got to watch them every minute!


19 posted on 09/30/2018 4:39:18 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Sounds like an intergalactic “cutting of the cheese”.

Or perhaps, “ripping the Universe a new one”


20 posted on 09/30/2018 4:39:28 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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