Members rileykill Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 They are gonna turn this thing on tomorrow ... Large Hadron Collider If you live in Switzerland or France hold on to your ass! I don't really think anything catestrophic will happen ... but I just finished a Sci Fi series in which the Earth is destroyed because humans accidentally create a black hole that falls into the planet's core. The singularity slowly eats everyting from the inside out. They call it "The Big Mistake." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oceanofnoise Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 I do find it vaguely amusing that if the world ends France is the first to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veil Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 I can't {censored}ing wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members johanwastaken Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 Nothing catastrophic will happen. A report was released this week which refutes many common claims about black holes and weird stuff. It's very interesting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tape Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 what's the series you watched? I doubt anything will happen. the black holes they will theoretically create are so small that they'd vanish in a fraction of a second. at this size they're far too unstable. before they tested The Bomb, there was much speculation that the atmosphere would catch fire (and other doomsday scenarios). yeah it doesn't prove or disprove a thing, but it shows that people fear the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tape Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 here's an entertaining site with doomsday scenarios presented with pseudo-scientificshttp://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pointer Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 Ha. I love reading all these articles which latch onto the blackhole story - its understandable since Joe Public couldn't really care less whether the Higgs is found or super symmetry is confirmed ... But still it gets on my nerves because in the unlikely event that tiny blackholes are created, their sizes and lifetimes have been pretty accurately predicted, and its clear that they will collapse within milliseconds. That said I can't wait for the results to come back from this beast - its pretty cool to be studying physics when all the action is taking place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oceanofnoise Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 its pretty cool to be studying physics when all the action is taking place!I really regret dropping the sciences when I went to college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members m_Calavera Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 lol yeah i am pumped for cern! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rileykill Posted September 9, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 I read the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. It was a page turner for sure. Lots of really cool cyberpunk/speculative fiction. He does a good job of tying current theories into the books as well. Faster than light ships are propelled by Hawking drives, time debt is a major issue, etc. Yeah 99.999% chance nothing catastrophic will happen. I'm not worried. But, this thing is supposed to show evidence particles that only currently exist in theory. Cool stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crxsh Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 I emailed a physics professor friend of mine w/ this, here's what he had do say: Good article. Don't expect to hear anything anytime soon though. They are just starting testing and it will be at least 9 months before they can take data. But once they start getting the high energy data, reguardless of whether they find the Higgs or not, it will be probably the single most important discovery (or non-discovery) since Einstein published his papers on relativity. Exciting stuff (if you are a nerd like me). You should also check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryBLZCOQ and yes, the physics is actually correct... John p.s. Don't believe any of that stuff you may read about the LHC destroying the earth and such. Not going to happen. It *might* create micro blackholes, but they will not be stable enough to cause any damage, and will evaporate within 10^(-18) seconds (or something like that, I forget the number and I am too lazy to calculate it again). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 3red Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 it'd be cool to throw a wadded up straw wrapper into one of the black holes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onyxrhino Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 fascinating stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rileykill Posted September 9, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 Yeah. The future is now folks. I can't wait until all these fields start to merge. Imagine if artificial intelligences were able to help us with the calculations ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sporky McGuffin Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 There are some awesome pictures here: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brambulance Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 a documentary about cern and the collider... very interesting! (parts 2 through 5 are on the tube ) fNvzb5ww0No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faldoe Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 It would be funny if they build this new Collider and still can't find what they are looking for, so they need to build another, even bigger one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am Chris Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 Ha. I love reading all these articles which latch onto the blackhole story - its understandable since Joe Public couldn't really care less whether the Higgs is found or super symmetry is confirmed ... But still it gets on my nerves because in the unlikely event that tiny blackholes are created, their sizes and lifetimes have been pretty accurately predicted, and its clear that they will collapse within milliseconds. That said I can't wait for the results to come back from this beast - its pretty cool to be studying physics when all the action is taking place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chisa Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 i dunno how anything disastrous could happen, all it is doing it smashing particles together and photographing the results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am Chris Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 no one's mentioned the coolest thing about it yet... this thing could confirm the existence of other dimensions. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html if what he says might happen, actually happens, it will destroy fundamental laws of physics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am Chris Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 i dunno how anything disastrous could happen, all it is doing it smashing particles together and photographing the results {censored} loads of energy is produced. weird stuff happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crxsh Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 no one's mentioned the coolest thing about it yet...this thing could confirm the existence of other dimensions. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.htmlif what he says might happen, actually happens, it will destroy fundamental laws of physics. Does that mean I can go back and argue for an A is Physics 101? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 before they tested The Bomb, there was much speculation that the atmosphere would catch fire (and other doomsday scenarios). yeah it doesn't prove or disprove a thing, but it shows that people fear the worst. the atmosphere does catch fire when a nuclear bomb is detonated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kismet78 Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 I'm not overly concerned about doomsday scenarios, but I still think it's foolish to start messing with these amounts of energy. All I have to say is: Yay science! Yay progress at any cost! How long until whatever you find is weaponized? You don't care do you? Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Demian03 Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 I'm not overly concerned about doomsday scenarios, but I still think it's foolish to start messing with these amounts of energy. All I have to say is:Yay science! Yay progress at any cost! How long until whatever you find is weaponized? You don't care do you? Yay! whats the cost? and we already have the power to blow up the world 3x over who cares about new weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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