lol this thing sounds like it's gonna cause a blackhole and destroy the universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

http://www.cern.ch/LHC/

Old news, but still cool stuff nonetheless.

By the way, you may wanna edit your title, Sean. It's not an erection.

Bobby said:


lol too much 4chan XD

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Reason said:
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Its quite obvious Reasons points have been consumed within a couple of tiny black holes.

BTW - any of the bull you hear on the net about it ceating a black hole that could destroy the planet is completely unfounded.

Yes, the machine has the capability to possibly create black holes; but at sub-atomic scales, and last for mere millionths of a second, if not shorter.

These sort of things occur naturally in nature millions of time a day, and are far more powerful than what the LHC can create.

Apparently, it's going to help us discover the nature of the universe, so basically, when they get it working at full tilt, the entire universe will disappear, and out of the blackness we'll see a message pop up that says, "Level 2"

Rhort said:

Or 'WTF.dll The specified universe cannot be found'

I read that header wrong to start off with! I was like WTF!

DublinGunner said:

yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be cursing everyone that said that when I am out of the blue dragged through my wall in the direction of western europe by a "harmless" little black hole.

They thought the first hydrogen bomb might create a chain reaction in the Van Allen radiation belt too. They are still afraid to try a cobalt bomb. They were going to build a huge accelerator in Texas but canceled construction because of the possibility the fire ants would eat the wiring. Personally I think they will create a thermal black hole (something nobody has discovered yet) that will suck in all the global warming and leave the earth locked in a deep freeze. Bush will call it his friendly black hole initiative and have a duel with Gore who will also claim it was his idea, by playing SUV chicken on the Champs Elysee in Paris. Bush will slip on the ice and crash into the Eiffel tower knocking it over and France will quit NATO in retaliation, and Vlad The Impailer Putin will seize his opportunity and nuke Luxembourg starting a nuclear war that will warm stuff up again. So you see...it's all good.

First particles beam fired today at LHC.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080910180851.htm

Anyone see any black holes yet?

That's sad that people actually believe it was ever capable of making black holes.

There's a black hole right now in my apartment. Luckily it's cleaning the place up for me.

The donut is 17 miles long. The experiment speed will be 11000 revolutions around the donut PER SECOND. They are doing clockwise runs, then counterclockwise runs and speed step up testing. The bottom line is the first collision won't be till the testing is over. They say probably next month.

Holy f**k that's fast.

yep the official run is in october

Kieran Blenkarne said:
Just under the speed of light, fast. XD

If it did create a black hole, It would be so small/worthless, it would destroy itself.

The entire principle of black holes work on enormous quantities of mass (far larger than our star at even the smallest estimates) that collapsed into itself under its own gravity. The theory asserts that it has so much mass that light itself can't escape it; hence, the name "black hole." The idea of black holes exist because a spectrograph (or some such) taken some time ago could only account for like 10% of the mass in the universe. They concluded that their had to be these super-massive.....objects....that can't be detected by their instruments had to responsible for the error. Those are the facts...

...now to reality: are they loony? This is something pulled straight out of the sci-fi books and there is very little evidence to support the theory. Astronomers have revealed the most convincing evidence that suggests a black hole is the glue that binds a galaxy together and the bigger the galaxy, the bigger the black hole in the center of it. This theory, unlike what the physicists concluded, actually makes some sense. Why else would galaxies consistently take on a spiral shape? Brilliant, but...

...why does a "black hole" have to actually be a "black" ... "hole?" Implying that it is either or both is to claim that the speed of light isn't the actual upper bound of everything and also buffers other sci-fi concepts of worm holes and all this other riff-raff. Why could it not just be an anomaly produced by a different kind of force that we don't completely understand? Why are so many sci-fi based concepts not being thoroughly scrutinized? Has the thought never crossed the mind that maybe there is not enough information to even make testable theories on it? I believe the entire concept of black holes is going to remain entirely theoretical until a) we can actually find one and b) we can send something close to, or in it. Until then, reality check, please.


Bottom line is: the collider works on the extremely small scale; everything about black holes is literally massive. They are on two completely opposing sides of the same spectrum.

FordGT90Concept said:

Eh, not all galaxies are spiral. And why would a black hole make it spiral? That would suggest a spinning motion of some sort - which is not necessary for a black hole to exist.



Its merely the name given to it - no light can escape, hence it would appear 'black', and it mass/light etc disappear into it, hence 'hole'.
A black hole is not theretical, as they have beendiscovered and proven to exist. How exactly they work however, can be open to scrutiny, as it was recently proven that they not only 'suck' everything in, but actually eject a certain amount of energy back out - disproving [some of] Hawking's theories.




Correcto-mondo.

Many black holes with far greater energy are created on a daily basis in our atmosphere, yet they last for pico-seconds, and have no effect on anything around them as they are way too small.