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[Woohoo Cthulhu]

I'm very excited by the news that the Large Hadron Collider will begin it's first attempt at beam circulation on September 10, 2008.

That leaves us all less than a month before the world is swallowed by the micro-black holes that those foolish Eurpoean scientists intend to create!

In all seriousness, though, this is really exciting news. There are a lot of questions in particle physics that could be answered once this baby begins it's actual colliding on October 31st.

I'm still reading up on the LHC and it's experiments, so forgive me if this thread seems a little naive, but I'm learning.

FOR SCIENCE!

[Tazcat]

If you haven't yet seen it, you need to go check out the physics rap on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

[DoomMonky]

I'm so excited for the data to start pouring out of the LHC.

[Tazcat]

They actually had a segment on the Today show this morning titled the end of the world? Wondering if the experiments at CERN this week will create a black hole that could suck up the whole earth! There is a professor in Germany that tried to get a court ruling against the experiments because he thinks the possibility exists that they could annihilate the planet in as little as 40 months with this thing!

[ArchbishopBilly]

Frankly I doubt they have the power to create something that can suck up the earth. However they probably have the power to create a new super weapon. After all that's how the story usually goes.

Hydrogen Bomb: When the first one was being tested some claimed it would light the entire atmosphere on fire and burn the entire planet.

Nuclear Bomb: When the first one was being tested some claimed it would start a chain reaction of splitting atoms that would not only destroy the planet but cause it to go super Nova and become a new star.

Science is a weird world, guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. If it does destroy the planet I hope it happens at the same time my dnd character rolls and attack die and gets a Natural 20, Critical Hit!

[DoomMonky]

IF the LHC creates black holes, they'll be so small and so unstable they'll last a very small fraction of a second before evaporating. They won't have the mass to destroy a beaker, let alone the planet. Planets are generally pretty sturdy, and this one will be around for quite a while yet.

Of course, all of this is hypothetical, but it's pretty well supported. The mini black hole destroying everything hypothesis is not.

'Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?'

This post has been edited by DoomMonky on Sep 9 2008, 10:05 AM

[Tazcat]

only when it's creating clones of small boys with tigers for friends

[UniqueGiftsandGames]

I saw something on one of those science channels that they now think that black holes actually create the stars, etc....that every galaxy may have one at it's center. There may be a point where the matter going in is held at bay by the matter/energy coming out, creating a balance that let's gasses, etc swirling around this center to form into the objects we know as stars, planets, etc....


How little we really know.

I think the black holes will create doors into a parallel dimension! I will be able to play against myself in the next miniatures tournament.

[DoomMonky]

And somehow, you'll both manage to lose.

[KrazyKarl]

First test worked today....

[DoomMonky]

The second test was completed this morning.

*SQUEEEEEE*

[ArchbishopBilly]

But can it toast a bagel?

[DoomMonky]

Depends on your definition of 'toast'

[Tazcat]

looks like we're going to have a bit of a delay, they had a transformer go out last week......
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-scien...18/EU.Big.Bang/

[DoomMonky]

They should tell Jazz to leave the clubs alone. There is science to be done!