No, the LHC wont destroy the EarthThe defendants will first have to convince their own lawyers to fight this, rather than recommend a precautionary shut-down. Since lawyers are to physics as cavemen are to spaceflight, that will take some doing. I've got it! Just remind them that there will be no liability suit if the plaintiffs are right. They will sign off right away.
To: atomic conspiracy
. . .a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a "strangelet" that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called "strange matter." That's one environmental impact statement which would make an interesting read!
To: atomic conspiracy
On the good side, the time constant for Earth’s destruction
by the microblack hole will be a thousand years.
On the gripping hand, this might be the reason why there
are no apparent Type 2 civilizations.
3 posted on
03/29/2008 11:03:47 PM PDT by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: atomic conspiracy
Does this mean that I may die some day?
4 posted on
03/29/2008 11:05:56 PM PDT by
Mark
(Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
To: atomic conspiracy
"Or it could spit out something called a 'strangelet' that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called 'strange matter.'"
That would be like...so cool.
5 posted on
03/29/2008 11:07:29 PM PDT by
familyop
(Worthless male weekend warrior has-been trash with no degree.)
To: atomic conspiracy
This is the way the world ends. This is the way it always has ended, and this is the way it always will end.
6 posted on
03/29/2008 11:18:03 PM PDT by
dr_lew
To: atomic conspiracy
The story is missing some key facts, such as why should the Swiss care what a judge in Hawaii says. Remember, the Swiss can tell you what to do with yourself in 4 official languages.
10 posted on
03/29/2008 11:42:22 PM PDT by
PAR35
To: SirKit
11 posted on
03/29/2008 11:43:29 PM PDT by
SuziQ
To: atomic conspiracy
So I says, “Supercollider? I just met her!” And then they built the Supercollider. Thank you. You’ve been a great audience.
13 posted on
03/29/2008 11:48:05 PM PDT by
Zeon Cowboy
(Pardon Ramos and Compean NOW! // Worst. Election. Ever.)
To: atomic conspiracy
Others have pointed out how harmless a black hole would be (1. According to all theory it would evaporate so fast we probably wouldn't even be able to detect it, much as we'd like to, 2. even if it could endure it would almost certainly have enough residual velocity to leave Earth and never come back, and 3. even if it stayed here it would be so tiny and weak it wouldn't do much of anything).
As for strange matter, last time I studied that theoretical stuff, the theory was that it could absorb normal matter and grow only under conditions of very high pressure: the sun's core wouldn't be enough.
To: atomic conspiracy
Gregory Benford wrote a fine SF novel on this subject, called “Cosm.”
16 posted on
03/30/2008 12:44:20 AM PDT by
Erasmus
(It takes branes to make an alternate universe.)
To: atomic conspiracy
Well if they are right we’ll never know.
17 posted on
03/30/2008 2:09:24 AM PDT by
DB
To: atomic conspiracy
Art Bell and Larry King will host and bore the thing to death.
18 posted on
03/30/2008 2:17:15 AM PDT by
Waco
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19 posted on
03/30/2008 2:34:18 AM PDT by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: atomic conspiracy
Since no one else has brought it up...WE’RE DOOMED!!!!
21 posted on
03/30/2008 3:32:52 AM PDT by
RetSignman
(DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
To: atomic conspiracy
a tiny black hole
That could be the answer to our increasing number of landfills.........Dump all our garbage into black holes.
26 posted on
03/30/2008 3:57:59 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(Congress needs to investigate the increasing disappearance of socks from washers)
To: atomic conspiracy
Ping for later, if we are still here to read it...
To: atomic conspiracy
Ping for later, if we are still here to read it...
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