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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: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

But I think I will be infinitely long and thin. I do like that idea.


81 posted on 01/27/2009 11:55:13 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Or into that opposite universe Superman went to, you know, where if you touch your opposite you destroy each other? Not so cool.


82 posted on 01/27/2009 11:55:58 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: Islander7

“Well, it will be a quick end in a Black Hole or a slow painful, messing end with 0bama screwing up the world.

I vote for the Black Hole.”

Which one?


83 posted on 01/27/2009 11:56:23 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Star Traveler

Perhaps that’s why the sky rolls up.


84 posted on 01/27/2009 11:57:29 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: autumnraine
Cool. I say go for it.

However, I don't believe a singularity of sufficient mass would be created to overcome the opposing force that exists due to the fact that the Earth sucks.

85 posted on 01/27/2009 11:58:18 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (All the oil's in Texas...but all the dipsticks are in Washington, DC.)
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To: brytlea

If that’s what is being described, then it’s going to take place... :-)

Get ready then...


86 posted on 01/27/2009 11:59:55 AM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Hacklehead

“....OR one with 6’6” blue skinned Glamazons with gigantic breasts!.....”

She has a rash. I wonder if it is contagious?


87 posted on 01/27/2009 12:00:05 PM PST by Islander7 (LOST TAGLINE - If found, please return. LARGE Reward.)
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To: Old Professer

Yuck!


88 posted on 01/27/2009 12:00:35 PM PST by Islander7 (LOST TAGLINE - If found, please return. LARGE Reward.)
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To: Islander7

Can you imagine what it would be like to have the very last post on FR?
Way cool.


89 posted on 01/27/2009 12:01:00 PM PST by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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To: reagandemocrat

So, at least for a brief time I would think my diet was working?


90 posted on 01/27/2009 12:02:56 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: BP2
6 tonnes of ultra-cold liquid helium

Sounds like a great big MRI.

91 posted on 01/27/2009 12:04:11 PM PST by Walmartian
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To: Islander7

OK, THAT was cool!


92 posted on 01/27/2009 12:05:21 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: Star Traveler

I stay ready for that. ;)


93 posted on 01/27/2009 12:06:02 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: autumnraine
"and just assumed it was turned on and nothing happened."

The did last Summer. Nothing happened and are testing their theories/math.

They will be turning on for the first time this Summer...

Ground Hog Day.

Then in the Summer of 2010, they will be turning it on for the first time...

94 posted on 01/27/2009 12:08:32 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: Star Traveler
Rev. 6:14

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

95 posted on 01/27/2009 12:08:34 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: metmom

“FoxNews.com can think of a few other things that didn’t seem possible once — the theory of continental drift, the fact that rocks fall from the sky, the notion that the Earth revolves around the sun, the idea that scientists could be horribly wrong.””

Even FoxNews has drifted over to the secular humanist side with their support of the Earth going around the Sun theory.


96 posted on 01/27/2009 12:09:55 PM PST by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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To: brytlea

Could be a number of atomic blasts at the beginning of a world-wide nuclear war, with all the warheads we’ve got “ready to go”....

I mean, one thing is hypothetical, and the other is *right there* and ready to go and we know what it will do....


97 posted on 01/27/2009 12:10:35 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: wxgesr

Can you imagine what it would be like to have the very last post on FR?
Way cool.....”

You could win the Nobel Peace Prize for that....or maybe buy it like all the recipients of past 30 years.


98 posted on 01/27/2009 12:10:37 PM PST by Islander7 (LOST TAGLINE - If found, please return. LARGE Reward.)
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To: autumnraine

Very interesting. Would love to hear what Dr. Hawking has to say on this.....C


99 posted on 01/27/2009 12:13:20 PM PST by colinhester
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To: autumnraine

It wouldn’t be much of a Doomsday Machine if it couldn’t destroy the earth. Everything is so over hyped these days.


100 posted on 01/27/2009 12:15:54 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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