Forget recession! It might not even matter anymore!

iraiguana · 2 Sep 2008 at 10:04

It's what the daily mail exists for.

LORD APOCALYPSE · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:14

mrk said:
The world is only going to end of December 29th 2012 don't you know.

Which is my birthday.....

The Mayans say 23rd december 2012, so don't worry. You won't see that birthday.

mrk · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:18

Oh, well that's alright then!

:-/

magick · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:24

LORD APOCALYPSE said:
The Mayans say 23rd december 2012, so don't worry. You won't see that birthday.

It's actualy the 21st December.

THMRK · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:34

yak.h'cir said:
I never said it could. I believe the main reason we haven't had a problem so far is because the particles created decay quickly + their charge means they're repelled from regular matter. There are loads of theories regards this stuff so if you want to learn more about it I'd read up on the experiments described on the
Brookhaven Lab website I linked earlier.

If strange matter was created at RHIC, then it wouldn't be created at the LHC. If you read the safety report it basically says that stranglets can only be created within a certain energy (1-10MeV) and since the LHC will doing collisions at 14TeV, it won't happen.

Or, to quote the Wiki article (who's source is the LHC safety assesement): "However, the probability of the creation of strangelets decreases at higher energies. As the LHC operates at higher energies than RHIC or the heavy ion programmes of the 1980s and 1990s, LHC is less likely to produce strangelets than its predecessors.[6] Furthermore, models indicate that strangelets are only stable or long-lived at low temperatures. Strangelets are bound at low energies (in the order of 1-10 MeV), whilst the collisions in the LHC release energies on the order of 14 TeV. The second law of thermodynamics precludes the formation of a cold condensate that is an order of magnitude cooler than the surrounding medium. This can be illustrated by the example of trying to form an icecube in boiling water."

alexakasloth · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:37

Do it do it do it do it do it do it!

jas72 · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:46

Jokester said:
Aren't black holes of a similar nature being created on a daily basis when cosmic rays hit the upper atmosphere anyway?

yes quite was just pondering that myself.

Tomsk · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:57

Another excuse for obese people - "It's the black holes mavity that make me weigh so much."

fini · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:19

Don't panic everyone - look who's turned up.

Inquisitor · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:22

Can't see any crowbar though, just a torque wrench

z0mbi3 · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:27

Mr Jones said:
Bring it on, I'll be in bed waiting for the world to end in one black hole swallow.

Is that a euphemism?

Burnsy2023 · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:33

Inquisitor said:
Can't see any crowbar though, just a torque wrench

It's in a crate just to the right of the photo. You need to get the torque wrench to break the crate

Burnsy

Inquisitor · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:35

Burnsy2023 said:
It's in a crate just to the right of the photo. You need to get the torque wrench to break the crate

Burnsy

But… but… it'd be wrong to break a crate with anything other than a crowbar! Even in the face of impending catastrophe!

ElectroBlaster · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:39

So lets get this right... If I suddenly see hoardes of ocuk geeks with crowbar's I know something terrible has happend?

Burnsy2023 · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:42

ElectroBlaster said:
So lets get this right... If I suddenly see hoardes of ocuk geeks with crowbar's I know something terrible has happend?

Or there's a meet that you didn't hear about.

Burnsy

PhillyDee · 2 Sep 2008 at 14:52

fini said:
Don't panic everyone - look who's turned up.

Excellent . . . . .

Von Smallhausen · 2 Sep 2008 at 15:00

Isn't the Hadon Collider being used to signal the shape shifting reptilian meerkats to colonise earth on behalf of the Vatican ?

THMRK · 2 Sep 2008 at 15:29

Von Smallhausen said:
Isn't the Hadon Collider being used to signal the shape shifting reptilian meerkats to colonise earth on behalf of the Vatican ?

...who told you? They're on to me.

jr1104 · 2 Sep 2008 at 15:45

What people often fail to understand is that all this is doing is replicating a reaction that occurs constantly throughout the universe, its just this one is being done inside a large sensor, so that its effects and products can be observed. By monitoring the radiation and particles released when two protons (or positrons) are collided, we can find out more about how mavity works, and how particles react at a fundamental level.

Von Smallhausen · 2 Sep 2008 at 15:46

fini said:
Don't panic everyone - look who's turned up.

Isn't that Ken Livingstone at the back with the tie on ?