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Scientists Not So Sure 'Doomsday Machine' Won't Destroy World
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| 01/27/2009
| Fox News
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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackholes; hadroncollider; stringtheory
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To: Army Air Corps
Or we could be sucked into some parallel universe. Hopefully one that has four-armed giants. That would be cool. OR one with 6'6" blue skinned Glamazons with gigantic breasts!
I just don't see a downside to this whole issue!
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:15:56 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: massgopguy
lol. Me too. How many times are they going to turn it on???
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:16:45 AM PST
by
GoCards
To: autumnraine
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:17:16 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: DBrow; camle; Alkhin; Professional Engineer; katana; Mr. Silverback; MadIvan; agrarianlady; ...
RIMMER: But a Black Hole's a huge, compacted star! It's millions of miles wide! Why didn't you see it on the radar screen?
HOLLY: Well, the thing about a Black Hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you s'posed to see them?
RIMMER: But five of them! How can you be ambushed by five Black Holes?
HOLLY: Always the way, isn't it? You hang around in Deep Space for three million years and you don't see one. Then, all of a sudden, five all turn up at once.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:17:19 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 8 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: massgopguy
Well, now we know what messed up the magnet...
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:17:21 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: null and void
Was part of it’s workings eaten up by a black hole?
I’m just kidding, but it does make you wonder.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:17:31 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: 01/22/09 Obama hands the hope of the unborn to terrorists.)
To: autumnraine
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:19:44 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : " We need swift immediate action on my 10 year government spending plan")
To: Owl_Eagle
Your parallel universe sounds much more intriguing.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:20:21 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: DoughtyOne
IIRC, one of the magnets lost cooling. LOTS of energy released as soon as the coils warm up enough to no longer be superconducting.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:22:08 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 8 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: massgopguy
Maybe they already turned it on NEXT Summer, and it’s distorting the continuum.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:22:25 AM PST
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: autumnraine
To: Owl_Eagle
I visited that parallel universe ...
Be careful! Those blue-skinned babes mate with you ... then they kill and eat you. Like spiders.
I was lucky to get out alive ...
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:25:48 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: null and void
Thanks. I should have read those articles. ;-)
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:26:05 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: 01/22/09 Obama hands the hope of the unborn to terrorists.)
To: Owl_Eagle
"OR one with 6'6" blue skinned Glamazons with gigantic breasts!"
![](http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0306/09/mystique.jpg)
Your wish has been granted.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:26:27 AM PST
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: Army Air Corps
Four warned is four armed.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:26:53 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
To: null and void
It was damaged on the first of the trials to power it up to full capacity on Sept 19, 2008. The world got a 8-month reprieve.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081017/full/4551015a.html
Eight-month delay for LHC
Broken magnets put particle collider in limbo
Geoff Brumfiel
Details of last month's accident at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's premier particle accelerator, are emerging and confirm that the machine will not restart before late May or early June 2009.
Officials at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, say that the time is needed to overhaul a sector of the 27-kilometre-long machine, after an electrical failure on 19 September caused some 6 tonnes of ultra-cold liquid helium to leak into its tunnel.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:27:08 AM PST
by
BP2
(I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
To: xp38
If the world is disintegrating just remember to be sure to post it in chat.
8^)
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:28:28 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
To: Islander7
Sadly, those were exactly my thoughts too.
To: reagandemocrat
Wow, I would be dead, but that would be COOL!!!
To: Hacklehead; Owl_Eagle
>
"OR one with 6'6" blue skinned Glamazons with gigantic breasts!" ... Your wish has been granted." I wouldn't call those "gigantic" -- they look just about right to me...
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:33:29 AM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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