Scientists Not So Sure 'Doomsday Machine' Won't Destroy World

Fox News ^ | 01/27/2009 | Fox News

[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.

[End Times Sentinel]

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!

[GoCards]

lol. Me too. How many times are they going to turn it on???

[KarlInOhio]

"Live" video from Large Hadron Collider

[null and void]

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.

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, now we know what messed up the magnet...

[DoughtyOne]

Was part of it’s workings eaten up by a black hole?

I’m just kidding, but it does make you wonder.

[sickoflibs]

A garbage disposal!

[Army Air Corps]

Your parallel universe sounds much more intriguing.

[null and void]

IIRC, one of the magnets lost cooling. LOTS of energy released as soon as the coils warm up enough to no longer be superconducting.

[swain_forkbeard]

Maybe they already turned it on NEXT Summer, and it’s distorting the continuum.

[reagandemocrat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N6kM9BvMhg&feature=related

Enjoy!

[ArrogantBustard]

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 ...

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. I should have read those articles. ;-)

[Hacklehead]

"OR one with 6'6" blue skinned Glamazons with gigantic breasts!" Your wish has been granted.

[BenLurkin]

Four warned is four armed.

[BP2]

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.

[BenLurkin]

If the world is disintegrating just remember to be sure to post it in chat.

8^)

[Pessimist]

Sadly, those were exactly my thoughts too.

[autumnraine]

Wow, I would be dead, but that would be COOL!!!

[dayglored]

> "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...