Posted on 01/27/2009 11:03:00 AM PST by autumnraine
Still worried that the Large Hadron Collider will create a black hole that will destroy the Earth when it's finally switched on this summer?
Um, well, you may have a point.
Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.
Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer — perhaps even more than a second, a relative eternity in particle colliders, where most objects decay much faster.
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that’s one thing they’d like to do.
Desperately seeking the Higgs boson
Manila Times | Sunday, January 14, 2007 | Rony V. Diaz
Posted on 01/15/2007 1:57:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1767741/posts
No sign of the Higgs boson
New Scientist | December 5, 2001 (note the year) | Eugenie Samuel
Posted on 04/10/2007 8:48:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1814966/posts
Physicists Find Tiny Particle With No Charge,
Very Low Mass And Sub-nanosecond Lifetime
ScienceDaily | December 7, 2006
Posted on 12/07/2006 6:00:02 PM PST by annie laurie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750170/posts
String Theory, at 20, Explains It All
(Are There 10 Dimensions Of Space and Time?)
NY Times | 7 December 2004 | By DENNIS OVERBYE
Posted on 12/10/2004 7:09:09 AM PST by shrinkermd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298550/posts
Top Quark Measurements Give ‘God Particle’ New Lease On Life
University of Rochester vis Science News | 6-10-04 | University of Rochester
Posted on 06/10/2004 7:32:02 PM PDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1151513/posts
Physicists Say Can Find No Sign of ‘God Particle’
Reuters / Yahoo | December 5, 2001
Posted on 12/06/2001 4:46:03 AM PST by Darth Reagan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/584881/posts
Collider Scientist:
“Hold my beer and watch this!”
If death for the entire planet is instantaneous and painless, what’s the downside?
ping for viewing after work...
Maybe they did create a black hole and we are in bizzarro world with Bizarobama.
Why isn’t anybody trying to stop this!? Didn’t anybody see Event Horizon!!!??
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