Stalins Organ Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 I'm offering 1,000,000:1 odds on the world being swallowed by a black hole generated by the LHC - payment is a certainty...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Whats the point, Maximillian will come out of the black hole and kill us all anyway. By the way, there supposedly working on a remake of the 1979 movie "The Black Hole". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 That's cool - 'cos if he does that then the earth hasn't been swallowed & I win 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 That's cool - 'cos if he does that then the earth hasn't been swallowed & I win But you'll be dead! :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 your point being? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 your point being? Hard to reap the benefits of your winnings when your dead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souldierz Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 People and their doomsday imaginations, will it ever end? This is an interesting experiment,and i`m not a science geek,far from it,but I am trying to keep informed on the info they get out of this thing.What a phenomenon,pure magic. My biggest fear would be,what kind of new weapon of mass destruction will they produce out of this new knowledge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 MeatEtr - read the 1st post carefuly....think of the implications..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 People and their doomsday imaginations, will it ever end? This is an interesting experiment,and i`m not a science geek,far from it,but I am trying to keep informed on the info they get out of this thing.What a phenomenon,pure magic. My biggest fear would be,what kind of new weapon of mass destruction will they produce out of this new knowledge. What's a good place to go to read up on it, actually? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 In all likelihood, even if a black hole was formed, it would be too small to devour the Earth. Not all black holes are star system eating giants, a two proton black hole wouldn't have much of an effect on us. In fact, it has already happened before. In march 2005, scientists working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton, New York created a fireball that indeed looked awfully much much like a black hole. It was unstable. In fact, it wasn't even a real black hole. Or so the scientists involved say. Perhaps the first man-made black hole is on its way to the center of the planet already! http://www.exitmundi.nl/blackholes_lab.htm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 Wiki! LHC Safety of collisions the "Black hole" at the relativistic heavy ion collider is covered on it's wiki page too....last pagaraph of the criticisms section 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 It was unstable. In fact, it wasn't even a real black hole. Or so the scientists involved say. Perhaps the first man-made black hole is on its way to the center of the planet already! Probably not, at least not if Hawking is right, as such a tiny black hole would "evaporate" within tiny fractions of a second. Martin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 There's odd being taken on what they will find. Dark matter is the 11-10 favourite. God is 100-1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souldierz Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 What's a good place to go to read up on it, actually? I come across some info from documentaries and scientist interviews I see on TV, and read about it in the paper once in a while,Wiki has always got some good info as Stalin's Organist pointed out, but i just try and pay attention for new info when the topic comes my way.I have yet to come across some good info of what they learned yet from smashing the particles together. Here's one good site that provides much info, but all you really need to do is google it http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ Small animation http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/ani/acc_lhc_atlas/lhc_atlas.swf I heard there's a rumor that there might even be a black hole in our Galaxy behind the sun, and that's whats making us spin around.You never know:) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noxnoctum Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Dark matter is crazy stuff. Scary, or exciting actually to think that we don't have a clue what makes up a huge portion of the universe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 Nox when has it ever been otherwise? It was postulated in 1934 apparently....to explain some stuff that didn't work according to relativity or somesuch....and relativity only "appeared" in 1905.....and it was another 40 years before it was accepted as real sicence? So for 70 years we thought we knew everything?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak_43 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 What's a good place to go to read up on it, actually? Here you go mate, for all those of the hippity-hop generation 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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