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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I thought they turned it on LAST summer.
This is my favorite paragraph, notice the last line, LOL!
“FoxNews.com can think of a few other things that didn’t seem possible once — the theory of continental drift, the fact that rocks fall from the sky, the notion that the Earth revolves around the sun, the idea that scientists could be horribly wrong.”
Well, it will be a quick end in a Black Hole or a slow painful, messing end with 0bama screwing up the world.
I vote for the Black Hole.
Makes deficits and global warming moot....(chuckle)
Go for it! We are already sinking in a black hole.
So the Hawking equations about micro black holes are wrong? This then brings back the queston of why we don’t seem to see small black holes, just ones over a certain size limit.
Last I heard, it was postponed until December. Never read anything else after that and just assumed it was turned on and nothing happened.
Man, I’d like to see that on YouTube
I just read where they did some experiments with it, but not turned it on to use yet.
It's been rescheduled for December 21, 2012.
Oppsie?
They did a test run last summer, ran into some problems with the magnets, and had to fix all that before they really run it.
At this point, who cares?
Whats the difference?
LOL, yeah, that was my thought too.
Spaghettification is on it’s way! Oh noze!
One is quick, the other is slow and messy.
Or we could be sucked into some parallel universe. Hopefully one that has four-armed giants. That would be cool.
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