The Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course

NY Times ^ | September 12, 2008 | BRIAN GREENE

[steve8714]

And to think, we used to worry about military people blowing up the Earth.

[sig226]

He should stick to equations.
The raison d’être for creating this microscopic maelstrom derives from Einstein’s famous formula, E = mc2, which declares that much like euros and dollars, energy (“E”) and matter or mass (“m”) are convertible currencies

This is awful. I assumed that only a newspaper editor could write it.

[Cacique]

btt

[Erasmus]

“OK, thanks Egon. Guys, important safety tip: Don’t cross the beams.”

[NewJerseyJoe]

> Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course

"In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram."

There. Done....

[onedoug]

Well met.

[editor-surveyor]

"Just curious. If a black hole was created would we even be able to detect it???"

In theory, it would sink radially toward the center of mass of the earth. What it would do once it arrived there is subject to debate, but by deduction, it would simply isolate itself there in a small void.

How large does a black hole have to be to exist? Isn't that part of the question that this device is designed to answer?

[editor-surveyor]

Thanks for the ping

[GodGunsGuts]

My pleasure.

[RJL]

The collider’s workings are straightforward: at full power, trillions of protons will be injected into the otherwise empty track and set racing in opposite directions at speeds exceeding 99.999999 percent of the speed of light — fast enough so that every second the protons will cycle the entire track more than 11,000 times and engage in more than half a billion head-on collisions.

If we force them to use, and destroy CO2 protons, "Global Warming" will be cured!
/S

[xJones]

Okay, it's sour grapes time in Texas. This, nearly was ours...

"In 1989 Ellis County was chosen as the site for the Superconducting Supercollider, a planned fifty-four-mile tunnel in which electrically charged protons would be accelerated for collision experiments. Ellis County residents exulted at the prospect of a burst of prosperity. The Texas National Research Laboratory Commissionqv oversaw the purchase of almost 17,000 acres of land and began to construct facilities west of Waxahachie. But opposition to the project in Congress, resulting from charges that it was "pork" for Texas and from uncertainty about the value to be derived from a supercollider, resulted in the defunding of "Super Clyde" in 1993. At that point some 20 percent of the project had been completed, including fourteen miles of tunnel, a magnet-development complex, the supercollider central facility, and the linear accelerator. At its peak the project had employed some 2,100 people at the Ellis County site. In 2005 the Ellis County government owned the site, and was actively looking for a buyer to develop it."

Actually, though, they were already having problems with Super Clyde. Our beloved fire ants had developed an appetite for the insulation being used for Clyde, and were eating away on it. It would have been a never ending problem for them, because you can't really kill fire ants, you can only make them move a few feet over.

[neverdem]

Don't feel bad. You were able to cut your losses without looking like complete fools. Does anything top the Shoreham nuclear power station on Long Island, New York?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!