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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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.
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.
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’.
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.
Well, if you start feeling an intense suction towards the center of the Earth, could you shoot me a text message?
They did but there was a problem..
Obama to “Doomsday Machine”...”America is not your enemy.”
They did, but it sprung a leak and let the smoke out ;^)
ROFLMAO!!
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,
Any chance they could have one of these things on standby at Yellowstone in case it blows?
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.
It broke.
>>>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!
It blew a ‘fuse.’
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