Ertieiddabanks Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator complex spanning the border between Switzerland and France near Geneva. LHC will smash together opposing beams of either protons or lead ions inside a massive circular accelerator. There appears to be some small amount of worry that the collider may inadvertently destroy the world( or even the universe) by creating a black hole .....any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 I believe that there are particles incident on the earth from cosmic sources which have an energy greater than that produced inside the accelerator. I reckon we will be ok and there will be no end of the world because of the LHC experiments. I remember people being scared of the millenium bug (Y2K) and the impending doom that it would bring about!! What a joke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posiedon Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 This is a very good 15 minute explanation of what happens in the Large Hadron Collider. Enjoy . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Farkoff Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 Just when exactly is this machine going to be switched on? There is an extremely large possibility of things happening here which may be beyond the earthlings capacity to understand- or survive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posiedon Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 Baron FarkoffJust when exactly is this machine going to be switched on? It's a bit like the JWs and armageddon, they keep on setting a date and then postponing it, I personally wish they would just get on with it and let's see what happens (if anything) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyumpi Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 I've actually been putting off cutting the grass in case we're living out our last few days before being sucked into a singularity of infinite density full of Toblerones, cuckoo clocks and Nazi gold.If they don't get on with firing the thing up till later in the summer and then the world doesn't end......Well, I'll have ruined my lawn for nothing and it'll take forever to get it back in shape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOYAANISQATSI Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Being that big bangs or black holes never existed anyway, they are unlikely to find out sausage all at hugh cost.It's akin to flying aeroplanes into mountains, then studying the pieces to find out the plot of the inflight movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 I believe a small Hadron collider is secretly being built on Forvik! According to what I heard in the pub, anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 This is an interesting article on the sorts of things that the LHC might discover. The "% chance" thing is a bit dubious, however. http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/08/04/what-will-the-lhc-find/ Edit: This is a very good 15 minute explanation of what happens in the Large Hadron Collider. Enjoy . Just watched this too. Good lecture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOYAANISQATSI Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/08/04/what-will-the-lhc-find/ what it might find. • Dark Energy: 0.1%. • Unparticles: 0.5% • Mysterious Missing Energy: 15% • Absolutely Nothing: 3%. • Magnetic Monopoles, Strangelets, Q-Balls, Solitons: 1% • Warped Extra Dimensions: 10% • • Dark Matter: 15% • New Massive Gauge Bosons: 2% • Evidence for or against String Theory: 0.5% • New Quarks or Leptons: 2% • Large Extra Dimensions: 1% • Preons: 1%. • Baryon-Number Violation: 0.2% • Black Holes: 0.1% • The Higgs Boson: 95% • God: 10-20% Each word we use in our discourse has specific meanings as listed in the dictionaries. I’m always fascinated when a group of words are strung together such that there is no semblance of meaning left in any of them. Or, more succinctly, What the hell does that mean? A big spin for extra funding, 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 May have just been a tall tale - but it's been said/written somewhere that they never really knew what would happen exactly when they let off the first test nuclear explosion. One of the outcomes was they could destroy space/time .... which obviously didn't happen?!? Or did it ?!? *Muuhahah Muhahaha* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 For the first atom bomb space-time was safe enough...........all they were worried about was setting the whole atmosphere on fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimdal Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Just to show how little was known about atomic bombs, do you realise that in the 1950's the UK government seriously planned to evacuate Wick so that they could test fire their atomic bomb triggers ? A long way from London town and if the wind was in the right direction, nobody would get hurt Yeah , right (The tests were later fired at Woomera, Australia instead) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie_Anxious Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Wow!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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