[xcamel]

black holes on hold...

[TheWasteLand]

Boo! I hope the LHC doesn’t end up being a boondoggle.

[GonzoGOP]

I saw a French scientist on the Science Chanel the other day talking about the black holes. As an off the cuff comment he said that it was almost certain that the black holes would last only a tiny fraction of a second. ALMOST CERTAIN. You know when dealing with the end of the world I would really appreciate if they would check the math just one more time. But seriously this thing is one monster of a machine.

[Michael Barnes]

Thanks for all the fish!

[Yossarian]

black holes on hold...

Only the ones in Europe. The Black Holes in Washington D.C. are doing their worst in full force.

[silverleaf]

is this the machine where scientists were only “a little bit worried” about creating a black hole that would act like....well.....a black hole?

[Bratch]

[Tijeras_Slim]

Why? Are they waiting for their Hadron Converter Box Coupons?

[Repeal The 17th]

black holes on hold...
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That’s Racist! </sarcasm>

[jz638]

will postpone its startup until the end of September, a year after the $10 billion machine was sidelined by a simple electrical fault...

Is that a lot of money? I honestly have no idea any more.

[America2012]

According to this theory, the machine is wiping itself from the timeline;

http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2991

Test of Influence from Future in Large Hadron Collider; A Proposal

Authors: Holger B. Nielsen, Masao Ninomiya (Submitted on 21 Feb 2008 (v1), last revised 11 Jul 2008 (this version, v2))

Abstract: We have earlier proposed the idea of making card drawing experiment of which outcome potentially decides whether Large Hadron Collider (LHC for short) should be closed or not. The purpose is to test theoretical models which, like e.g. our own model that has an imaginary part of the action with much a similar form to that of the real part. The imaginary part has influence on the initial conditions not only in the past but even from the future. It was speculated that all accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs particles like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC for short) would call for initial conditions to have been so arranged as to finally not allow these accelerators to come to work. If there were such effects we could perhaps provoke a very clear cut "miracle" by having the effect make the drawn card be the one closing LHC. Here we shall, however, discuss that a total closing is hardly needed and seek to calculate how one could perform checking experiment for the proposed type of influence from future to be made in the statistically least disturbing and least harmful way.

We shall also discuss how to extract most information about our effect or model in the unlikely case that a card restricting the running of LHC or the Tevatron would be drawn at all, by estimating say the relative importance of high beam energy or of high luminosity for the purpose of our effect.

[6SJ7]

I’ll schedule my hygienist after September. No point in wasting a visit if the world ends.