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| Large Hadron Collider (LHC); Doomsday Device? Orly. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 10 2008, 07:20 PM (1,567 Views) | |
| Yowming41 | Sep 11 2008, 01:03 AM Post #21 |
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Hmm. I've heard of this. I believe that God's got control of the end of the world, black hole created or otherwise (see also: Revelations) and I doubt we silly humans can blow up our own mini planet ourselves...we've failed at it too many times. :P ALSO: The Google thing today has a pic of 2 metal tube things and a yellow-zappy-"clash" effect thing in the center...I think it's supposed to be this project thing. Edited by Yowming41, Sep 11 2008, 01:04 AM.
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| Yugiah | Sep 11 2008, 01:11 AM Post #22 |
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google thing? |
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| Ssbm Rocks1 | Sep 11 2008, 01:43 AM Post #23 |
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or create a new energy source. also: you guys know if you click on/ put your mouse over the google thing it will say Large Hadron Collider right? :D |
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| 1337 Sk1llzz | Sep 11 2008, 01:52 AM Post #24 |
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Been talking about this for weeks on other forums. If you're scared it will end the Earth, here's what Stephen Hawking said about it,“If the collisions in the LHC produced a micro black hole, and this is unlikely, it would just evaporate away again, producing a characteristic pattern of particles,” Professor Hawking said. “Collisions at these and greater energies occur millions of times a day in the Earth’s atmosphere, and nothing terrible happens.” EDIT: Here's the whole article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4715761.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2 Edited by 1337 Sk1llzz, Sep 11 2008, 01:54 AM.
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| Ganlo | Sep 11 2008, 02:54 AM Post #25 |
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lol I was JUST about to make this thread, but then i saw this one xD.... Anyways, I don't really think the world's gonna end, but i heard something about this experiment corresponding to the mayan calander end of the world thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik61q0FpoyE&feature=user |
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| Danielle | Sep 11 2008, 08:46 AM Post #26 |
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~: When it ends :~
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I like this 'device' so far yesterday ( the day the world was ment to get eaten by a black hole) we got the day off school because the teachers thought it was gonna happen :D |
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| Blackt3ars | Sep 11 2008, 02:34 PM Post #27 |
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idiots :S . And Hawking is right. We got high speed particles crashing at phenomenal speeds all the time. So we can do that articially too now? Big fucking woohoo. I'd rather have them looking for the Higgs Boson, or create a minisupernova. Now that'd be cool :L . |
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| Jack Sam1 | Sep 11 2008, 02:49 PM Post #28 |
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You say that you'd rather have them looking for the Higgs Boson, but thats what they are doing also. You might have just been lost in translation, but they will look for it using the LHC. Or, I am completely wrong, which I doubt. ;) Oh yeah, one more thing...Hawking ftw. |
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| Blackt3ars | Sep 11 2008, 03:00 PM Post #29 |
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No, but I meant they should be looking for it first thing :P . Higgs boson is much more important than some micro black hole. |
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| Llamakill | Sep 11 2008, 03:35 PM Post #30 |
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They ARE looking for the Higgs Boson. That's the whole point of the experiment. The Black-hole fiasco has just been blown to the front by the media. As for a mini-supernova, what'd be the advantages of that? Sure if we could control it we could probably manufacture it to work with nuclear fusion, but i can't see that happening for a long time. |
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| Jackxcite | Sep 11 2008, 03:39 PM Post #31 |
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They're not looking for a black hole though. :L They're not even TRYING to make one. :P It's just possible that it'll be an after-effect. they;re basically looking for Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I'm not to clear on what the Higgs' Boson is? |
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| Froggy | Sep 11 2008, 03:40 PM Post #32 |
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The thing is they wont be able to record actually having found the Higgs, becasue of its enourmass mass, it will be extremly unstable and therefore will decay in a matter of a billonth of a second, so they are actually looking for the radiation decay that would be produced from it. |
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| Froggy | Sep 11 2008, 03:42 PM Post #33 |
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The higgs bosun partile or also known as the 'God' particle, will help prove why masless particles cause matter to have mass. |
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| Mr Master52 | Sep 11 2008, 04:04 PM Post #34 |
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Hmm...I'm not really worried that the world will end, and that mayan calender is bull... it's just a freaking coincidence or some cientists made this by purpose...Never heard that this isn't the year 2008 (they have counted the years wrongly)? And to the whole cancer thing...and the energy thing... Cancer: If they find it the cure for cancer I go naked to Lisbon for 5 hours. I am absolutely sure they wont. Energy: This whole things is freaking killing me. Humans have always been curious, but I don't give a damn if you find that higgins particle or w/e, I am 100% sure that if anti-matter is produced the world will have a freaking big weapon. And to that "the terrorists won't get it anyway" thing I can only laugh... The terrorists would use it against America, America uses it against the ones you call "terrorists" (it's life :p) |
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| Jack Sam1 | Sep 11 2008, 04:53 PM Post #35 |
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Yeah, only a 25th of what we know actually exists. What I mean is, 24 25ths is unaccounted for. This is because right after the Big Bang, the normal matter and anti-matter ahnilated each other to near oblivion. |
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| Jack Sam1 | Sep 11 2008, 04:59 PM Post #36 |
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Oh yeah, one more thing...a lot of people were saying that yesterday was going to be the end of the world. Impossible. Why? Because the first collisions will actually happen in about a months time. In these experiments, about 1 billion protons will be fired at each other, but only 20 collisions will occur. Thats when the `potential` for a black hole to form will come. All they did yesterday was beam a proton around one way. Why the fuss? |
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| Joe | Sep 11 2008, 05:28 PM Post #37 |
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Cos people refuse to read the news once in a while :) |
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| Yugiah | Sep 11 2008, 07:30 PM Post #38 |
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Yea, it's so sad, yet another global epidemic of ignorance :( |
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| Jackxcite | Sep 11 2008, 07:33 PM Post #39 |
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I was looking into this a lot in the last week and found nothing saying they were only firing a beam in one direction. So y'know, that wasn't really given out as very good info. But I think I said that in the first post, they need to send beams round counter-clockwise as well, then they collide them probably by the end of the month. Differnt websites give different info. No ones really sure. =/ |
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| Bunni Killer | Sep 11 2008, 08:53 PM Post #40 |
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Excerpt from a FAQ here.
If I were you, I'd worry more about existing technology--which already has the ability to destroy us all several times over. :P Edited by Bunni Killer, Sep 11 2008, 08:56 PM.
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