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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Aaarrrgh! I was going to do the Mayan calendar bit.
Nicely played, sir.
I wonder how fast they grow.
All the “Hope” and “Change” went down the black hole they created LAST summer. They just don’t want you to know ;)
Exactly.
Sooner or later we'll all be like you - dead.
They wanted to, but failed to...
Hey, don’t scoff at that parallel universe thing. Dr. Kaku has suggested they do exist and I am in love with his brain, so he is always right.
Seriously, I do wonder sometimes.
It was. It promptly fried itself...
I vote for the Black Hole.....
Half of America did....
Might be a good way to get rid of unwanted CO2 - chuck it down a quantum black hole and extract the intense energy thereby created.
Unless what is described in the book of Revelation (in the Bible) is part of the consequences of this facility, I wouldn’t be worried too much about what they do there...
Maybe a parallel universe where the media actually report the news and Karl Marx never did anything more than scrub dishes in a tavern.
One word: Cassini.
How quick? Somehow I doubt we will have time to post on FR even a short WTF!?!? Perhaps a pre Hadron collider startup thread to post our thoughts before our impending doom. :)
wow. what a way to go.
I agree. At least the Black Hole will rid us of our 4 year misery living under a Hussein administration.
I imagine Pelosi would let us call it the White Hole for pc purposes.
The Mayan calendar end-date will actually fall on the 21st because we did not have a Grand Leap Year in 2000 like we were supposed to. That's why the first day of Spring falls on the 20th of March now instead of the 21st like it used to prior to 2000. Google "february 30, 2000" for more info.
this could end up being ‘hugh’ and ‘series’
Bring it on.....
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