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| Azerath:
Pssh, mine is all the way in December. forget YOU SCIENCE!! |
| Jsk2003:
I hate the idiots for thinking we'll all die when LHC goes off. First off, what's the point of telling people? You think that they are going to stop one of the most important experiments because of some cowards? Also I remember reading somewhere where physicists and other scientists proved it wouldn't cause a black hole... I'll try to find it.. --- Quote ---If two subatomic particles collide at high enough speed, it’s possible that they will collapse into a black hole. If that happens, it would fall through the Earth and, well, you can guess what bad things would happen then*. However, studies done by CERN show that the energies generated will be too low to make black holes. Also, due to a weird effect called Hawking radiation, the tiny black holes would evaporate instantly. The two litigants, however, say that Hawking radiation is not an established fact, and therefore we should be more careful. While that’s technically true, they forgot something important: the same rules of quantum physics that make a black hole in a subatomic collision also indicate they would evaporate. So if you’re worried they won’t evaporate, then you shouldn’t be worried they’d be created in the first place. Same goes for the creation of a quantum strangelet. This is a weird conglomeration of particles called quarks, and if a strangelet comes into contact with normal matter can convert it into more strangelets. The idea is that these can cause a chain reaction that turns all available matter into strangelets. That would be bad. However, first, strangelets are completely theoretical, and again even if they are real it’s incredibly unlikely they would be created even by LHC. And even if they were created, the chances of them being a danger are very small. A study a few years ago by physicists at MIT, Yale, and Princeton shows this to be the case; as they point out, higher energy particles hit the Moon all the time. If strangelets could be created in this way, the Moon would have converted to a big ball o’ strangelets billions of years ago. --- End quote --- Now please also use explain the logic of telling people? People should learn to live life as if today was their last day to live....everyday. That being said, even if there became a black hole, just enjoy life while we all die. Also if you're a good person(and religious or else you wouldn't believe this) then you would go to Heaven or w/e equal afterlife there is in your religion(or if none, just believe that science won the game). EDIT: Fixed grammatical error in first sentence. |
| JDofPivot:
--- Quote from: Jsk2003 on June 27, 2008, 09:32:55 PM ---I hate idiots of think we'll all die when LHC goes off. --- End quote --- K, look, Im not an idiot who thinks we'll all die when LHC goes off. Im just an idiot period. |
| WRB852:
The thing is that if these conditions could create a strangelet, then they would have already been made, and killed us all. Sorry, but I have no source, or why. Edit: Oh, and I almost forgot. Old news is really loving old. |
| Miga:
--- Quote from: WRB852 on June 27, 2008, 11:47:07 PM ---Edit: Oh, and I almost forgot. Old news is really loving old. --- End quote --- Indeed. Theres enough proof that the LHC won't kill us all. |
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