Today the world's largest particle accelerator will go online.
Some say we will find the Higgs boson, and evidence for extra dimensions.
Others say it could create microscopic black holes that would gobble up the planet.
Who will be right?
It won't go all doom-y until sometime next month. That's when they intend to start colliding the beams, that'll be whats going to create a blackhole if there's going to be one created. I'm skeptical personally.
I wonder if they will give tours soon?
Assuming the Earth is still here.
Will this create a resonance cascade that will open a portal to Xen?
It won't go all doom-y until sometime next month. That's when they intend to start colliding the beams, that'll be whats going to create a blackhole if there's going to be one created. I'm skeptical personally.
I thought crossing the streams was bad.
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Here's a site where you can go to determine if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the Earth yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Just refresh that page to monitor the continued existence of the Earth.
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Will this create a resonance cascade that will open a portal to Xen?
I don't know, but I would like to point this out.
Just sayin'
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Here's a site where you can go to determine if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the Earth yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Just refresh that page to monitor the continued existence of the Earth.
Check out the Source for that page, it's got some hidden text in it ;)
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Check out the Source for that page, it's got some hidden text in it ;)Here's a site where you can go to determine if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the Earth yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Just refresh that page to monitor the continued existence of the Earth.
"the crab always wins; it makes the baby syntacticians cry."
hehe. that makes me laugh. it also puts the image of the LHC creating a portal to a realm of giant crab-people into my head.
Someone pointed out in another forum that the worst case scenario would result in the earth being completely demolished after a period of about four years. This would put the time of the End of the World rather close to the end of 2012...
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I find it hard to believe that anyone would allow people to create something that could blatantly destroy the entire planet. They MUST know what could happen if it goes wrong. Or is all this talk of 'end of the world' just rumors and superstition?
Oh they know what could happen. However, what could be caused by this machine has less chance of happening than a black hole being opened in our atmosphere via doom rays (can't remember their name, I'm tired - sorry) sent our way from the sun (which theoretically could happen at any time but hasn't yet). Not to mention that they figure that if a black hole was opened it would be so small that it would almost instantly destroy itself.
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Check out the Source for that page, it's got some hidden text in it ;)Here's a site where you can go to determine if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the Earth yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Just refresh that page to monitor the continued existence of the Earth.
"the crab always wins; it makes the baby syntacticians cry."
hehe. that makes me laugh. it also puts the image of the LHC creating a portal to a realm of giant crab-people into my head.
Crab People... Crab People. Taste like Crab... Talk like People... Crab People.
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Someone pointed out in another forum that the worst case scenario would result in the earth being completely demolished after a period of about four years.
If you're the sort of person that thinks that Something Bad is going to happen then the worst case scenario would probably be one involving a false vacuum collapse which would result in the annihilation of our universe.
However, given that neither this, nor the Earth getting eaten by an LHC-created black hole, is going to happen it's probably not worth worrying about :)
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I find it hard to believe that anyone would allow people to create something that could blatantly destroy the entire planet. They MUST know what could happen if it goes wrong. Or is all this talk of 'end of the world' just rumors and superstition?
It was actually started as a series of misunderstandings about basic science principles combined with some pseudo science and probability theory. in theory, they are trying to create a tiny black hole (if i remember right). the problem is everyone thinking "oh noes, a black hole just eats everything" which would lead to the world being destroyed. not gonna happen. then there's still the scare over nuclear weaponry and since they are doing something so much more powerful, there must be a blast to accompany it. also false. then there's the sci-fi explanation where they're looking for gravitons, which are theorized to be able to pass through the theoreitcal other universes, and so a rift will open to another world. by far the least likely.
most likely, what will happen is they will flip it on, a tiny black hole will be created for a fraction of a second, they will record some findings and then the military will turn it into a bomb or weapon somehow.
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Crab People... Crab People. Taste like Crab... Talk like People... Crab People.Check out the Source for that page, it's got some hidden text in it ;)Here's a site where you can go to determine if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the Earth yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Just refresh that page to monitor the continued existence of the Earth.
"the crab always wins; it makes the baby syntacticians cry."
hehe. that makes me laugh. it also puts the image of the LHC creating a portal to a realm of giant crab-people into my head.
well at least if we're invaded all we'll need to fight them is a bunch of boiling water, y'know, since bullets and rockets won't work.
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most likely, what will happen is they will flip it on, a tiny black hole will be created for a fraction of a second, they will record some findings and then the military will turn it into a bomb or weapon somehow.So instead of lightsabers we'll get blackholesabers?!
Awesome!
I prefer to think of them a Voidsabers. catchier and it shows the inner sci-fi geek.
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most likely, what will happen is they will flip it on, a tiny black hole will be created for a fraction of a second, they will record some findings and then the military will turn it into a bomb or weapon somehow.
[sarcasm]
Military turning a new scientific discovery into a weapon? Naw, never.. that wouldn't ever happen.[/sarcasm]
In reality, if someone did their math wrong, and they flip the switch, what's the worse that could happen?
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most likely, what will happen is they will flip it on, a tiny black hole will be created for a fraction of a second, they will record some findings and then the military will turn it into a bomb or weapon somehow.[sarcasm]
Military turning a new scientific discovery? Naw, never.. that wouldn't ever happen.
[/sarcasm]In reality, if someone did their math wrong, and they flip the switch, what's the worse that could happen?
nothing. maybe the scientists in the room going blind or getting cancer (though unlikely, what with the scare of it being so ingrained that i doubt there will even be anyone nearby), but the math being wrong means that mostly liekly the streams wouldn't cross, so nothing.
although I kind of like the idea of them missing and the entire thing overheating and melting.
It was actually started as a series of misunderstandings about basic science principles combined with some pseudo science and probability theory. in theory, they are trying to create a tiny black hole (if i remember right). the problem is everyone thinking "oh noes, a black hole just eats everything" which would lead to the world being destroyed. not gonna happen.
Actually, the purpose of the collider is to recreate the conditions present just after the big bang so they can examine the debris left over. To do this they are accelerating the prticles to a very appreciable portion of the speed of light, and when they collide they are expected to give off temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun.
Certainly nothing bad could come of this. :)
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I find it hard to believe that anyone would allow people to create something that could blatantly destroy the entire planet. They MUST know what could happen if it goes wrong. Or is all this talk of 'end of the world' just rumors and superstition?
It's nonsense.
Theoretical physics is big and complicated and requires many years of tertiary education to understand. Some people are scared of big and complicated things they don't understand. Some people are scared of the dark. This is why religion and conspiracy theories exist.
The press tend to give random kooks equal weight to experts (qv wikipedia) and "the world might be destroyed" makes for a better headline than "we might get a better understanding of what mass is".
A small, but loud, number of kooks spout nonsense that sounds like it makes sense to laymen who aren't familiar with the subject.
#1 - the kook says "a black hole could be created that will destroy the world".
#2 - thousands of scientists respond "a black hole may be created, but it's crazily unlikely and even if one was it would evaporated almost instantly".
#3 - the press quote #2 as "thousands of scientists say a black hole may be created"
Nobody notices that some good science gets done, except possibly to complain about five billion euros being spent on something that didn't destroy the world.
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It was actually started as a series of misunderstandings about basic science principles combined with some pseudo science and probability theory. in theory, they are trying to create a tiny black hole (if i remember right). the problem is everyone thinking "oh noes, a black hole just eats everything" which would lead to the world being destroyed. not gonna happen.Actually, the purpose of the collider is to recreate the conditions present just after the big bang so they can examine the debris left over. To do this they are accelerating the prticles to a very appreciable portion of the speed of light, and when they collide they are expected to give off temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun.
Certainly nothing bad could come of this. :)
meh. doesn't really change anything else i said that followed. they'll flip it on, observe and then weaponize it somehow. or develop a new way to cook food. we'll need it what with all the giant crab meat we're gonna have on our hands. :)
I though you all were familiar with the process for creating a Sphere of Anhilation. That's what its for. The facy name and "uses" are just a cover up.
The voidsabers got pretty close thou!
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One of the scientists at CERN made this to explain the LHC.
Despite the lousy sound, this is the greatest thing to come out of the LHC so far.
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Sometimes it's just fun to ignore the obvious joke people are going for and instead respond with stoic and straight comments. Or at least fun to me.I share the same sentiment.
good to know I'm not alone. Now, why'd you have you have to go and screw up our mocking by editing your posts Heath? Now we look crazy for quoting things you can claim you never said. well...in my case crazier I guess...
Here's a site where you can go to determine if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the Earth yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Just refresh that page to monitor the continued existence of the Earth.
Wow, that's much more advanced than what we have in New Zealand.
Seriously, the more I see of this thing the more I'm convinced that I'm going to be fighting off head crab zombies by the end of the year.
Better stock up on ammo and crowbars.
Even if Doom is spelled by the LHC, destroying the Earth takes effort.
Besides, we've already made a black hole. It evaporated. Black hole needs to be the mass of Mount Everest to destroy the earth.
Most the LHC'll do is take out its parent mountain and kill all humans. The earth itself will be fine.
>Finally, I get< it.
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>Finally, I get< it.
I couldn't help myself.. i watched part of it, and saw this off to the side...
lol
>Finally, I get< it.
I couldn't help myself.. i watched part of it, and saw this off to the side...
lol
wow, that was crazy.
I like >this< too.