Forget recession! It might not even matter anymore!
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Resonance cascade anyone?
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Daily Mail strikes again.
The 'scientists' involved in this bid have only proven that they know nothing of high energy physics....
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever of the LHC producing a black hole that could swallow the planet, the chance of it creating a micro-black hole is small enough, and it would quickly collapse with nothing else....
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever of the LHC producing a black hole that could swallow the planet, the chance of it creating a micro-black hole is small enough, and it would quickly collapse with nothing else....
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Well we're still here despite all the other particle accelerators that CERN have built so I'm not making any will quite yet.
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That's what I thought as well, and the experiment was funded by 20 countries, what did they expect to find anyway?
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That's not quite true. The possibility is real, if minuscule. We just don't know enough about high energy physics to be totally sure, hence why we're doing the experiment.
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From what I understand of the LHC there isn't anything being created in there that isn't already occurring naturally with cosmic rays etc crashing into our atmosphere, the only difference is that with LHC we can measure and record exactly what is happening during and after the collisions.
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Answers to make a unified theory? Surely it's one if the biggest questions out there?
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They expect to be able to better understand the universe and the forces that govern it.
More like military want to develop more super weapons.
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Not this again 
The only people who are worried about this are people who know nothing about the underlying physics and are thus completely unqualified to talk about it, let alone mandate its shut-down.
Yes, you're right. All of the academics and PhD physicists working on this from hundreds of countries around the world are, in fact, secretly trying to design a weapon system for the military.
The only people who are worried about this are people who know nothing about the underlying physics and are thus completely unqualified to talk about it, let alone mandate its shut-down.
Yes, you're right. All of the academics and PhD physicists working on this from hundreds of countries around the world are, in fact, secretly trying to design a weapon system for the military.
I very much doubt that any experiments they run will have any military applications anytime soon.
The possibility of making a blackhole is something ridiculous like 1 in a trillion trillion... and even that black hole wouldn't have enough energy to exist for more than fraction a second before it collapsed... To create anything that would be sustainable would require a collider bigger than this planet.
The fact that the best scientist they can find to support this is a chemist, not a physicist, speaks volumes...
I also think there is an military involvement alongside it and will potentially provide new toys in the future. Almost everything ever built was designed for war so I wouldn't be surprised if this will be used to test and develop new weapons etc.
How many years between Einstein's theory and Fat Man bomb?