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Scientists Not So Sure 'Doomsday Machine' Won't Destroy World
Fox News ^ | 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: autumnraine

Imagine being sucked helplessly into a place where there is no light, everything is inescapably crushed, and there is no possible escape. Sort of like Mariners season tickets.


61 posted on 01/27/2009 11:35:33 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: MahatmaGandu

Holy Leap Year Batman!?! So it’s NOT 2012, but 2008??

Because of the leap every 400 years that will shave 4 years off the Mayan calendar?

Just damn. We’ll have to celebrate Christmas on the 20th this year.


62 posted on 01/27/2009 11:36:13 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: BP2

How do they know a microscopic black hole didn’t escape on Sept. 19th, and is now churning and devouring matter at the center of the earth?

I’m just sayin’.


63 posted on 01/27/2009 11:37:29 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: Army Air Corps

Read a sci-fi story once, called “Rumfuddle”, where a secret society of guys traveled to parallel worlds and “fixed stuff”, like making sure Adolf Hitler ended up as a waiter in an Italian Restaurant instead of a mad dictator... Interesting story.


64 posted on 01/27/2009 11:38:00 AM PST by HeadOn (Lord, please save us from Socialism.)
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To: reagandemocrat

Well, if you start feeling an intense suction towards the center of the Earth, could you shoot me a text message?


65 posted on 01/27/2009 11:38:30 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: massgopguy

They did but there was a problem..


66 posted on 01/27/2009 11:38:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: autumnraine
As long as Kirk is around we have no worry:
67 posted on 01/27/2009 11:39:52 AM PST by sticker
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To: Owl_Eagle
OR one with 6'6" blue skinned Glamazons with gigantic breasts!

Ahhh. Death by Snu-Snu.
68 posted on 01/27/2009 11:41:04 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: autumnraine

Obama to “Doomsday Machine”...”America is not your enemy.”


69 posted on 01/27/2009 11:41:45 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: massgopguy
I thought they turned it on LAST summer.

They did, but it sprung a leak and let the smoke out ;^)

70 posted on 01/27/2009 11:43:54 AM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: SlowBoat407
Surely U just!
71 posted on 01/27/2009 11:44:35 AM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

ROFLMAO!!


72 posted on 01/27/2009 11:44:35 AM PST by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: autumnraine
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 [...]

Bear in mind that the particles in the collider are travelling at near-light speed - and so are the fragments of the collisions, including any mini black holes which might be created. In roughly a thirtieth of a second, such particles will have travelled a distance equivalent to the diameter of the Earth. So even if they had a trajectory directly downwards, they would pass through the Earth in about one-thirtieth (1/30) of a second. Even as they accreted more mass by absorbing matter, thus tunneling through the Earth, they would hardly slow down.

Regards,

73 posted on 01/27/2009 11:45:07 AM PST by alexander_busek
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To: autumnraine

Any chance they could have one of these things on standby at Yellowstone in case it blows?


74 posted on 01/27/2009 11:45:42 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: autumnraine

I’m thinking that the sensation would be first something like gradual weightlessness, since the earth’s core would be continuously devoured, and thus the force of gravity would diminsh-—only to be inevitably sucked into the black hole.....

sorta like being at the shore during a tsunami where the water recedes hundreds of yards out to sea, only later to come crashing into the landmass wreaking havoc and carnage....

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Or not.


75 posted on 01/27/2009 11:51:24 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: massgopguy

It broke.


76 posted on 01/27/2009 11:52:41 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: autumnraine

>>>Well, if you start feeling an intense suction towards the center of the Earth, could you shoot me a text message?<<<

I’ll put you my ping list!


77 posted on 01/27/2009 11:53:20 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: autumnraine

78 posted on 01/27/2009 11:53:46 AM PST by j_guru
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To: massgopguy

It blew a ‘fuse.’


79 posted on 01/27/2009 11:54:49 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: xp38
According to this video we will have about 38 seconds. Maybe we should have our last thoughts ready to post at a moments notice.

Check it out
80 posted on 01/27/2009 11:54:50 AM PST by Islander7 (LOST TAGLINE - If found, please return. LARGE Reward.)
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