Large Hadron Collider functions- world does not end

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24 Nov 2009, 1:39 am

Everyone may now return to their regularly scheduled lives, but-

Keep checking back here for updates; if the world ends, I'll post here and let WP users know before anyone else...

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24 Nov 2009, 7:02 am

Yeah the thing was broken for 14 months. Now they will produce a black hole that will suck the whole Earth (I'm kidding they won't). Just curious if they will discover the Higgs boson or the existence of higher dimensions. Keep us updated if the do!

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24 Nov 2009, 8:38 am

I heard a rumor from a friend that apparently somewhere in China they managed to create a black hole and kept it from growing or moving. Is this even possible according to the general laws of physics or is this actually true?

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24 Nov 2009, 10:44 am

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It may be true in China - I've always been told that Chinese Arithmetic is far more complicated than the western kind, so their physics probably has different laws as well. :wink:

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24 Nov 2009, 10:46 am

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I don't think it's possible, no. If you had some way to immobilise one you could keep it from growing by keeping it in a fairly hard vacuum, but I can't think of any way to immobilise one (at least not while it was near Earth) as the only force affecting it would be gravity and we have no way to counter the Earth's pull. You could stick one in geostationary orbit, which would be immobility of a sort.

General opinion is that teeny-tiny black holes should evaporate through Hawking radiation rather than rampage through the planet. Though I don't think Hawking radiation has yet been directly observed, mind.

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24 Nov 2009, 10:56 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdE662eY_M[/youtube]

Jump to 15:50 and watch until the end. Enjoy!

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24 Nov 2009, 3:48 pm

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Everyone may now return to their regularly scheduled lives, but-

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Not all at once, first a few things are missing, but they were sub atomic, and no one noticed when some gas vanished, we have plenty.

Black Holes are not built in a day, but by small losses over time, till at the end, when even time flows in.

It was not the match that burned the forest.

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24 Nov 2009, 4:22 pm

jrknothead wrote:

Everyone may now return to their regularly scheduled lives, but-

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Nonsense. The world won't end. The LHC will undoubtedly discover new physics though. I will be waiting to find out what will be discovered.

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24 Nov 2009, 5:26 pm

Don't give up hope; they've only gotten a few splashes so far. The real accelerations should begin soon - that's when we'll see the black hole whose mass consists entirely of strangelets, that'll untie the cosmic strings and unravel reality! :wtg:

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25 Nov 2009, 11:37 am

It will be at least a year before the LHC runs a full capacity and power. Even so, it will not generate a Black Hole that will eat up the Earth.

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25 Nov 2009, 4:20 pm

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It will be at least a year before the LHC runs a full capacity and power. Even so, it will not generate a Black Hole that will eat up the Earth.

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I was thinking a lab size Big Bang, they keep saying they want to run some tests. Being in the Alps, that should make Moscow beachfront.

Everything sticks together because it wants to, but we have taken away some bonds, and gotten explosive results.

Dark Matter backs the idea that we are only one of many worlds, and do we really want to open the door to another?

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25 Nov 2009, 5:39 pm

Any black holes that are created will evaporate in milliseconds.

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25 Nov 2009, 5:59 pm

The Earth was already destroyed to make way for a hyperexpressway...they'll just make another...

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26 Nov 2009, 4:03 am

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Any black holes that are created will evaporate in milliseconds.

In theory. We don't actually know that for certain! :wink:

What we do know is that a large number of very high energy (including some many orders of magnitude higher than the LHC can produce) particles have hit the Earth every day for the last four billion years without producing a black hole yet.

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26 Nov 2009, 11:16 pm

The world did end.

We are living in an alternative universe where the experiment failed.

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27 Nov 2009, 11:49 am

Wombat wrote:

The world did end.

We are living in an alternative universe where the experiment failed.

"There is one school of thought which holds that if the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer were both known at the same time, the universe would end, and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another school of thought which holds that this has already happened."

- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Universe

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