Fenton
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With the recent discovery of the " God Particle " actually they discovered a particle that " behaves " as the Higgs Bosun should, it's rekindled a interest of mine. Particle Accelerators and their applications.
The CERN Hadron Collider is the largest most powerful Hadron Collider in the world, using thousands of Super Conducting electro magnets cooled down to -271.3 C using liquid Helium.
Thats Colder than the vacuum of outerspace and superconductivty means virtually NO loss to resistance.
It zips and focus's sub atomic protons at 99.999999 % the speed of light.
Well, when I saw an article that discussed some of the safety concerns of particle acceleration on this scale and the possibillity of producing instantaneous Micro-Black Holes or even singularities ( zero mass, infinite gravitational pull and are thout to be at the center of every black hole ) I didn't give it much thought .
Cosmic rays have been raining down on earth with energies that are multiples of what the Hadron Collider can produce, and the random collision with a atomic nuclei could actually create cosmic black holes in our atmophere that exist for only a micro second and then disintergrate.
Black holes give off radiation and according to Stephen Hawking, even the largest will eventually disipate.
But " stranglets ", ( strange matter or quark matter ) are a toss-up. Stranglets or strange matter is a theoretical cosmological object composed of "exotic matter" and is produced at the core of massive Nuetron Stars.
Protons and electrons compress into Nuetrons and produces a matter that is exponentially more dense than conventional matter.
If this happened ( and I sincerely doubt it ever will ) it would start with a high energy particle collision that would produce one " stranglet ". ( one UP Quark, One DOWN Quark and one STRANGE Quark ).
Now one STRANGE Quark is infinitely more massive than a normal UP Quark, and could potentially collide with the atomic nuclei of one of the Collider atoms, causing an immediate conversion of that nuclei into more strange matter.
The Contagion would repeat and repeat with no technological means for containment eventually leaving one huge slug of HOT Strange Matter known as the Earth.
I know, unlikely but theoretically possible.
In the published list of ways our world could end, Apocalypse via Scientific Experimentation is pretty high up on the list.
The CERN Hadron Collider is the largest most powerful Hadron Collider in the world, using thousands of Super Conducting electro magnets cooled down to -271.3 C using liquid Helium.
Thats Colder than the vacuum of outerspace and superconductivty means virtually NO loss to resistance.
It zips and focus's sub atomic protons at 99.999999 % the speed of light.
Well, when I saw an article that discussed some of the safety concerns of particle acceleration on this scale and the possibillity of producing instantaneous Micro-Black Holes or even singularities ( zero mass, infinite gravitational pull and are thout to be at the center of every black hole ) I didn't give it much thought .
Cosmic rays have been raining down on earth with energies that are multiples of what the Hadron Collider can produce, and the random collision with a atomic nuclei could actually create cosmic black holes in our atmophere that exist for only a micro second and then disintergrate.
Black holes give off radiation and according to Stephen Hawking, even the largest will eventually disipate.
But " stranglets ", ( strange matter or quark matter ) are a toss-up. Stranglets or strange matter is a theoretical cosmological object composed of "exotic matter" and is produced at the core of massive Nuetron Stars.
Protons and electrons compress into Nuetrons and produces a matter that is exponentially more dense than conventional matter.
If this happened ( and I sincerely doubt it ever will ) it would start with a high energy particle collision that would produce one " stranglet ". ( one UP Quark, One DOWN Quark and one STRANGE Quark ).
Now one STRANGE Quark is infinitely more massive than a normal UP Quark, and could potentially collide with the atomic nuclei of one of the Collider atoms, causing an immediate conversion of that nuclei into more strange matter.
The Contagion would repeat and repeat with no technological means for containment eventually leaving one huge slug of HOT Strange Matter known as the Earth.
I know, unlikely but theoretically possible.
In the published list of ways our world could end, Apocalypse via Scientific Experimentation is pretty high up on the list.