CERN's Hydron Collider

only physicist can justify spending millions on a machine to fine a particle :rolleyes:

i'm personally looking forward to when the LHC is fully operational, that is if it doesnt kill us all. :D
 
thats true, lets hope they find something or find out what they are looking for does not exist

Problem is if they don't find the higgs boson, theorists will tell you that the collision didn't have enough energy to form one and we won't be any better off.
 
Cern's Hydron Collider was to be tested November 26 2007. I cannot find any news on the net as to whether Cern have put the Atom Smasher to work...

Has anyone heard of information regarding this project. Did they start tests or has the project run into trouble?


is this that bloody great thing they want to make mini black wholes with ?
 
Cern's Hydron Collider was to be tested November 26 2007. I cannot find any news on the net as to whether Cern have put the Atom Smasher to work...

Has anyone heard of information regarding this project. Did they start tests or has the project run into trouble?

I would like to know the same thing. Sounds pretty neat!
 
ahhh I remember now tis the threshhold

Sucked into a microscopic black hole

You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore you microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.
Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.
Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.
Source: "The Dark Side Of The Sun," by Terry Pratchett. It is true that the microscopic black hole idea is an age-old science fiction mainstay which predates Pratchett by a long time, he was my original source for the idea, so that's what I'm putting.


http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp-1.html


So I might die because a bunch of those geeks want to find some little bits of air.....time to start bashing some heads in :cool:
 
Energize, are you working at CERN? If so, is there any chance of some hi-res photos of the installation? The closest I've ever got is flying over at 2500' in a Bell.
 
I'm no physicist, but I don't see how they could make a black hole with the same mass as everest by smashing two tiny particles together... And besides, wouldn't any black hole they create have such a small mass it wouldn't suck anything in? Also, particles collide with the Earth's atmosphere all the time, so I would be FAR more concerned about that.
 
So I might die because a bunch of those geeks want to find some little bits of air.....time to start bashing some heads in :cool:

Last time i said that i got lots ofn Abuse for "Not knowing much about physics behind it" Or some **** like that.


But anyway, Who gives a flying **** about what they want to spend lots of cash on and find. Damm Nerds will be the end of us all!

It might take 2 of us to take down Hawking though, Ive heard hes a bit of Keyboard warrior:o


I feel so dirty for saying that last bit for some reason:o:(
 
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People should be more supportive of this stuff. Everyone loves to use hi tech gagets but someone who is many times smarter than you has discovered how they work. These are the only people that actually will change the world. Geeks ***.
 
People are being quite immature here.

But yes, we should be more supportive of these scientists. These guys are the ones who will be making huge breakthroughs that change the world
 
People are being quite immature here.

But yes, we should be more supportive of these scientists. These guys are the ones who will be making huge breakthroughs that change the world

How exactly will this change the world anyway?:confused:

The money should have been pumped into Stem Cell Research TBH
 
How exactly will this change the world anyway?:confused:

Possibly in the same way that finding an electron can act as a wave as well as a partial, without that little piece of obscure knowledge the transistor would never have been created.
 
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