[LUconn]

Has anyone heard of this thing. It's an atom smasher that's almost completed that we THINK won't end the galaxy. Yay.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080618/111107931.html

Black holes are expected to appear (or be detected appearing) in the LHC every second or so. As they evaporate they will leave a trail of radiation that will be registered by the accelerator's monitoring devices. Such holes pose no threat, even in theory. On the other hand, they should help improve our understanding of the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravitation, because evaporation of black holes is a quantum mechanical process.

Sounds like a good idea! Let's mess around with mini black holes because we think we know what will happen. If you don't have anything in your life to worry about these days, now you can know in the back of your mind some dudes in Europe who you have no control over are throwing atoms at each other to create blackholes to see what happens.

[Fumblerooskies]

We had no idea what what happen IF a plane broke the sound barrier.
We had no idea what would happen IF a human ran a sub 4-minute mile
We had no idea what would happen IF we successfully exploded an atom-bomb.

[LUconn]

Your first 2 are not known star-enders. Neither is the 3rd but I think we can all agree we'd be better off had nobody ever done that or planned to do that.

[Sly Fox]

There was a similar project near Dallas a decade or so ago that government-funded. But it had so many roadblocks I don't believe it ever did anything.

[TylerBakersGonnaBGreat]

If this was actually true we wouldnt know because those people that came up with this idea would quit their job since the world will be sucked into a black hole in a month...

[RagingTireFire]

Am I the only one who completely misread the title of this thread?

[AZjonz]

Am I the only one who completely misread the title of this thread?

LOL. I'm looking like an idiot laughing out loud by myself right now. I'm still 14 sometimes.

[Fumblerooskies]

Your first 2 are not known star-enders. Neither is the 3rd but I think we can all agree we'd be better off had nobody ever done that or planned to do that.

I am sure the families of the expected 1,000,000 American soldiers who would have died in the invasion of Japan beg to differ.

[LUconn]

ha, hypothetical deaths. Hypothetically, a lot more americans will one day die from someone elses nuke.


But this thread was just to give you the world could apruptly end before you even knew what happened in the back of your mind.

[LUconn]

This puppy is getting fired up tonight. Be sure to let your loved ones know that they are loved. It was nice knowing you all!

[LUconn]

wait, they won't being doing actual collisions until October. Carry on. We're safe until then. You can go to bed angry tonight if you'd like. There's always tomorrow! for another month.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... article.do

[PAmedic]

appreciate the updates though.

[ATrain]

You mean the world's not going to end until October? Dang, and I was going to host an end-of-the-world party tonight...oh well

[phoenix]

That means I don't have to buy Christmas presents this year. Cool!

Of course, it also means I've got a lot of old DVDs to watch in the next month or so. I'd hate to die without having seen X2. And I want to see The Saint one more time.

[RagingTireFire]

I'd hate to die without having seen X2.

I'll save you the trouble. This is how it ends:

All but three of the mutants die in a large hadron collider experiment gone wrong. Rather ironic, really.

[LUconn]

just so you guys can get your own updates in case I forget to update this thread, here's the link:

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

[phoenix]

just so you guys can get your own updates in case I forget to update this thread, here's the link:

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

lol. That page is worth it just for the comments in the page source code.

the first person to ask for an RSS feed gets a free black hole in their junk
you are too late, people have already asked. ok fine i made one. rss.xml.

[Realist]

wait, they won't being doing actual collisions until October. Carry on. We're safe until then. You can go to bed angry tonight if you'd like. There's always tomorrow! for another month.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... article.do

There's something very important I forgot to tell you.

Don't cross the streams.

It would be bad.


Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Total protonic reversal!

All right, important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

[Innocent Bystander]

For those interested, here is a webcam for the LHC. It can be pretty interesting when something is actually happening.

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

[flamesbball84]

some idiotic girl in india committed suicide over this thing. she thought the world was going to come to an end so she drank presticide before they turned it on.

[ATrain]

Dang it, I was hoping the world would end...now I guess I have to take that economics midterm

[FlameNForest]

some idiotic girl in india committed suicide over this thing. she thought the world was going to come to an end so she drank presticide before they turned it on.

She was afraid to die so she killed herself? ok.


I do remember the buildup to the first Gulf War there was talk about Armaggedon and the end of the world and I read a couple of stories about people who killed themselves because of it. 18 years later and we're still here.

[Kolzilla41]

I think this is a lot different. You are talking about physics and blackhole composition, something we have no idea about. I'm not saying the world will end but we have NO idea what this machine will do.

[PAmedic]

For those interested, here is a webcam for the LHC. It can be pretty interesting when something is actually happening.

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

thats good stuff

[lynchburgwildcats]

Have no idea what the heck this article is really saying since I never took anything more than an introductory chemistry course, but the headline makes it sound pretty cool.

Large Hadron Collider may have produced a previously undetected form of matter

Teams at the Large Hadron Collider must be developing a knack for producing tangible evidence of theoretical particles. After orchestrating 2 million collisions between lead nuclei and protons, like the sort you see above, the collider's Compact Muon Solenoid group and researchers at MIT suspect that stray, linked pairs of gluon particles in the mix were signs of color-glass condensate, a currently theory-only form of matter that sees gluons travel in liquid-like, quantum-entangled waves. The clues aren't definitive, but they were also caught unexpectedly as part of a more routine collision run; the team is curious enough that it's looking for more evidence during weeks of similar tests in January. Any conclusive proof of the condensate would have an impact both on how we understand particle production in collisions as well as the ways gluons and quarks are arranged inside protons. If so, the CMS and MIT teams may well answer a raft of questions about subatomic physics while further justifying CERN's giant underground rings.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/28/larg ... ondensate/