Large Hadron Collider

right, what ever happens will happen, they test tommorow, so what if we die, we die, been nice knwoing people, but these guys know what there doing, other wise they wouldnt of built it would they?
 
azab350 said:
right, what ever happens will happen, they test tommorow, so what if we die, we die, been nice knwoing people, but these guys know what there doing, other wise they wouldnt of built it would they?
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hey aren't doing collision tests until late September.

At the moment they are just testing injectors.
 
azab350 said:
right, what ever happens will happen, they test tommorow, so what if we die, we die, been nice knwoing people, but these guys know what there doing, other wise they wouldnt of built it would they?
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They built it mainly in order to find out things they don't know, to test theories by experimentation.
 
my point, they wouldnt of built if was going to kill us all, wich it wont, it will be perfectly safe, how can a PROTON take out earth?
 
azab350 said:
my point, they wouldnt of built if was going to kill us all, wich it wont, it will be perfectly safe, how can a PROTON take out earth?
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The one thing that just might cause problems is the potential creation of strange matter resulting from the collision of lead nuclei (which will be happening later on this year I believe). Very, very unlikely though.

If anyone remembers that Odyssey 5 TV series that was on about 6 years ago, that's what happened in that.
 
azab350 said:
my point, they wouldnt of built if was going to kill us all, wich it wont, it will be perfectly safe, how can a PROTON take out earth?
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Cause it wont be a proton after the test it will be several hundred sub sub atomic particals.
 
azab350 said:
my point, they wouldnt of built if was going to kill us all, wich it wont, it will be perfectly safe, how can a PROTON take out earth?
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A black hole could, eventually, and there's a strong possibility that they will be creating black holes.

Very small ones, sure. So small that they could wander through the gaps between atoms in materials...but chance will eventually cause something to get close enough to be pulled in, making the black hole a little bit more massive.

So the worry is that one or more mini black holes would move to the centre of the Earth (due to mavity) and grow. Very gradually at first, very gradually indeed, but faster and faster as time goes by and more chance collisions make it/them more massive.

But the theory, apparently, indicates that mini black holes will evaporate in a fraction of a second, so it won't be a problem. Assuming the theory is right. Which it probably is.
 
Hawkings Radiation will take the black holes, so there nothing to worry about, this Strange Matter thing is slightly worrying, and what if Dark Matter is made?
 
Inquisitor said:
The one thing that just might cause problems is the potential creation of strange matter resulting from the collision of lead nuclei (which will be happening later on this year I believe). Very, very unlikely though.

If anyone remembers that Odyssey 5 TV series that was on about 6 years ago, that's what happened in that.
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The LSAG report says that the possibility of strangelets being produced is less than that of the RHIC. Apparently this is because that they are only really stable at low temperatures and because the LHC is operating at a much, much higher it's not possible.

The report says that strangelets are only bound in the 10-100MeV region. The LHC is, as you probably know, going to be operating at 14TeV. Ergo, the report argues, that due to the nature of the energy involved, that the second law of thermodynamics precludes the formation of a cold condensate that is orders of magnitude cooler than the surrounding medium.

All of this can be read here: http://lsag.web.cern.ch/lsag/LSAG-Report_add.pdf

Anyone who is worried and fancies a read, can see here: http://lsag.web.cern.ch/lsag/LSAG-Report.pdf
 
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