Still worried that the Large Hadron Collider will create a black hole that will destroy the Earth when it's finally switched on this summer?
Um, well, you may have a point.
Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.
Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer — perhaps even more than a second, a relative eternity in particle colliders, where most objects decay much faster.
Under such long-lived conditions, it becomes a race between how fast a black hole can decay — and how fast it can gobble up matter to grow bigger and prevent itself from decaying.
Casadio, Fabi and Harms think the black hole would lose out, and pass through the Earth or out of the atmosphere before it got to be a problem.
"We conclude that ... the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible. Nonetheless, it remains true that the expected decay times are much longer (and possibly >> 1 second) than is typically predicted by other models," the three state in a brief paper posted at the scientific discussion Web site ArXiv.org.
Casadio, Fabi and Harms think the black hole would lose out, and pass through the Earth or out of the atmosphere before it got to be a problem.
"We conclude that ... the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible. Nonetheless, it remains true that the expected decay times are much longer (and possibly >> 1 second) than is typically predicted by other models," the three state in a brief paper posted at the scientific discussion Web site ArXiv.org.
FoxNews.com can think of a few other things that didn't seem possible once — the theory of continental drift, the fact that rocks fall from the sky, the notion that the Earth revolves around the sun, the idea that scientists could be horribly wrong.
I say we push some liberals in front of them. BwuahahahahahahI sometimes think that just because we can make or build something doesn't we should do it.
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I sometimes think that just because we can make or build something doesn't we should do it.
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Even if the scientist are sure that nothing bad will happen, is it really a good a idea to have a machine that makes black holes?
There is absolutely no chance of this happening. People that brought this up are completely nuts.
I would NEVER say they is no chance
Having read numerous articles on the LHC, I will attempt to calm down the masses:
ONE SECOND. It COULD last for ONE SECOND. Think about it.
That being said, "one second" is a pretty long time compared to what they are expecting, but there is pretty much a nil chance of anything bad happening. Physics says that there is a chance that if you jump into a brick wall, you'll go right through it. It's very very small, but it's still there. Same thing here. There's a very small chance that it could potentially develop into a mini-blackhole lasting for about one second.
Oh it's all just a bunch of mouthfoaming by scientists. Who called this facility the Doomsday Machine? How silly is that?
Oh it's all just a bunch of mouthfoaming by scientists. Who called this facility the Doomsday Machine? How silly is that?
I swear to god if this thing goes off and I miss House, I will be pissed.
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