Large Hadron Collider

Radiation said:
I know about railguns in the works but i was thinking particle beam weapons.
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Well they take massive amounts of energy and massive cooling, and even then would loose a lot of power very quickly once they leave the barrel and because of thier weight they would be knocked off course very easily.
 
Inquisitor said:
Kind of. No one really 'invented' the internet as such, though; Tim Berners Lee was responsible for many of the protocols and infrastructural elements of the internet but in reality it was developed by lots of different people and organisations.
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Replace internet with WWW and that's pretty much the case.

HTTP, the hyperlink and HTML were all developed at CERN in Sir Tim's (who I've met :cool:) research group.

Burnsy
 
pitchfork said:
No ones got the grapes to flick the switch, just send me down there :D
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I can just imagine they bloke who pulls the lever with his eyes shut squinting, just like I used to when my dad fiddles with the house electrics.... :D:cool:
 
Inquisitor said:
Yes, miniature black holes will be created, but no, they won't consume the Earth.

The one thing that just might consume the Earth is strange matter, but that won't happen until they start colliding lead nuclei in a few months, so we'll have to wait and see :p
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How do we know for sure though? I think some forget that if these blackholes can be created, if one can be so can many of them and not only that but theres a constant beam of lovely particles for them to eat and grow, chances go up that one will get to a size large enough to be stable for a longer period, if it continues to eat it will grow quicker and quicker.
 
Radiation said:
How do we know for sure though? I think some forget that if these blackholes can be created, if one can be so can many of them and not only that but theres a constant beam of lovely particles for them to eat and grow, chances go up that one will get to a size large enough to be stable for a longer period, if it continues to eat it will grow quicker and quicker.
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the fact they can turn of the beam, and the fact that with this little mass it will not have any real gravity.

+ hawking radiation.
 
I think they believe they'll be sealed up again by Hawking Radiation. Unfortunately, this is all theoretical.

I think it has something to do with the Black Hole emmitting more mass than it's taking in due to Hawking Radiation but I'm open to correction by more knowledgable people in matters such as this.
 
This potentially could turn out to be Half Life, we have never done it on this scale before so lets see..

I don't understand how they got the MASSIVE magnets in there without frying everything around them and making everyones watches fly across the room and stick to it????
 
Radiation said:
How do we know for sure though? I think some forget that if these blackholes can be created, if one can be so can many of them and not only that but theres a constant beam of lovely particles for them to eat and grow, chances go up that one will get to a size large enough to be stable for a longer period, if it continues to eat it will grow quicker and quicker.
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....and if they get big enough to consume the earth and the solar system? So what! We'll all be reduced to a super dense cluster of particles floating around in space. No individual will be inconvenienced by such an event because everything and everybody will be destroyed, all of Earth's history will be erased. You'll not miss your friends or family or wish you had a laptop so you could "blog" the end of the world because everything will be consumed. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it if I were you ;)
 
Booner! said:
This potentially could turn out to be Half Life, we have never done it on this scale before so lets see..

I don't understand how they got the MASSIVE magnets in there without frying everything around them and making everyones watches fly across the room and stick to it????
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electro magnets :p
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
I think they believe they'll be sealed up again by Hawking Radiation. Unfortunately, this is all theoretical.

I think it has something to do with the Black Hole emmitting more mass than it's taking in due to Hawking Radiation but I'm open to correction by more knowledgable people in matters such as this.
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As far as I'm aware, Hawking Radiation is one of a few different factors involved in evaporation of black holes.
 
Radiation said:
How do we know for sure though? I think some forget that if these blackholes can be created, if one can be so can many of them and not only that but theres a constant beam of lovely particles for them to eat and grow, chances go up that one will get to a size large enough to be stable for a longer period, if it continues to eat it will grow quicker and quicker.
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Given that a black hole will wink out of existance almost instantly, that wouldn't happen.

They will only be detected by their remnants. IF (and it's an if because the theory for them to be created at these energies requires extra dimensions, evidence of which does not exist) a black hole is created it's not going to stay open and sit there...
 
I love how people are thinking this is going to be a huge thing, like most things scientific we will have to wait and see.

KaHn
 
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