Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

[dutronic]

nope theyre just stills of the control room and the LHC along with the underground where the whole thing is at.

[MiKeY188]

It sounds exciting and i look forward to see if it was successful

[twelve]

Well we're all still alive so it didn't bring abour the end of the world.

Success for 'Big Bang' experiment

[MiKeY188]

Yeah i thought it would cause a big huge explosion lol But it looks really cool. And cost alot of dam money for an expierment.

[twelve]

It would never cause any explosion. If it went wrong the photons would burst through the tunnel and bury straight into rock. They'd burn themselves up before they come anywhere near the surface of the earth.

[MiKeY188]

Thats not too bad :) I was just sort of worried about that lol.

[madsoul]

http://lbstatus.cern.ch/

o.o

[Ciaran_]

If it went wrong the photons would burst through the tunnel

Protons ;)


The real worry from nay sayers was that the collisions would cause a micro black holes to form and grow exponentially to destroy the Earth. The formation of micro black holes is very unlikely, but the formation of stable black holes is even less likely. Theres nothing to worry about really.

[twelve]

Protons ;)


The real worry from nay sayers was that the collisions would cause a micro black holes to form and grow exponentially to destroy the Earth. The formation of micro black holes is very unlikely, but the formation of stable black holes is even less likely. Theres nothing to worry about really.

Protons, photons, same thing. It's been 5 years since I did my A-Level physics

Steven Hawkings said that even if black holes were produced they would "evaporate" within seconds.

[UknownKiller]

thats it?
Thats somewhat disappointing.:/
After all the hype it build on the internet and this happens.
I want my money back!
-=Double Post Merge =-

Protons, photons, same thing. It's been 5 years since I did my A-Level physics

Steven Hawkings said that even if black holes were produced they would "evaporate" within seconds.

Oh yeah, I rember reading that.
I wounder,if really able produce stable black holes, what would do with them..

[twelve]

thats it?
Thats somewhat disappointing.:/
After all the hype it build on the internet and this happens.
I want my money back!

It was a complete success. Why's that disappointing?

[Abe_Froeman]

It was a complete success. Why's that disappointing?

Seriously, give it some time guy. Nothing but scientific advancement is going to come from this thing.

[twelve]

Seriously, give it some time guy. Nothing but scientific advancement is going to come from this thing.

I know. I'm not the one that's disappointed by it. It actually really excites me, I've always liked physics (and I'm not talking about in game physics).

[Cooguy1212]

Protons ;)


The real worry from nay sayers was that the collisions would cause a micro black holes to form and grow exponentially to destroy the Earth. The formation of micro black holes is very unlikely, but the formation of stable black holes is even less likely. Theres nothing to worry about really.

Nothing to worry about, the black holes will be cleared up by a special radiation(forgot what it was called).

[Abe_Froeman]

I know. I'm not the one that's disappointed by it. It actually really excites me, I've always liked physics (and I'm not talking about in game physics).

I mis-spoke/mis-quoted. I was agreeing with you.

[AndyMosh]

If they succeed with the actual thing in october, this could be the next stage in producing energy and fuel, no pollution, more energy and the only thing that could go wrong (1/50000000 chance) is a black hole being created, and doing something.. I dunno, but great news

[twelve]

Should be an interesting few months. They're intending to actual get onto proton collisions before they switch it off for the winter, if that all goes well then there'll be full power collisions early next year.

[Ciaran_]

[twelve]

I wish I knew what all the pictures that have been produced today meant. I guess the fact that there not blank is great evidence that it actually works.

[Black_hole]

Nothing to worry about, the black holes will be cleared up by a special radiation(forgot what it was called).

You mean Berkenstein-Hawking radiation?

When this escapes, it looses energy ( mass ), hence e=mc2.


So yeah, they will be most likely to shrink in less than a second, considering how small they will be.

[Slasher]

Sort of ironic your name is Black_hole, huh? lol



Also, check out the google logo.

[Moose]

What the hell is with the black hole crap? If a black hole was made, it would be so unbelievably unstable and small that it would simply disintegrate... resulting in absolutely nothing happening.

[UknownKiller]

@Slasher
lol
@Moose
people just don't want to risk the chance.
ps. my friends was telling be how they was going to split, or send atoms to the moon see how it was made.
Can anyone tell me if this real or not?
They heard it on cnn today.
also can you link the information?

[Moose]

@Slasher
lol
@Moose
people just don't want to risk the chance.
ps. my friends was telling be how they was going to split, or send atoms to the moon see how it was made.
Can anyone tell me if this real or not?
They heard it on cnn today.
also can you link the information?

Well they did 'risk the chance' and no black hole was created. :o

[UknownKiller]

Well they did 'risk the chance' and no black hole was created. :o

My point, if something really bad was going to happen im sure the goverment would stop it.
:3
Also Im guessing no heard about the moon thing>.<
I guess It was false information

[Slasher]

Well they did 'risk the chance' and no black hole was created. :o

Yes, but the atoms haven't collided yet. It will take several months for the machine to reach full power, and then they'll smash the atoms.

Also backing yourself up against this "black hole will disintegrate" stuff isn't necessarily something I'm keen on doing. People seem to believe this simply because 'Stephen Hawkings' said so. Its never been observed...ever. So there's really no definite way of knowing for sure that the black holes will infact disappear. You know Stephen Hawkings is human too, he could make mistakes.

[rock4christ]

You know Stephen Hawkings is human too, he could make mistakes.

LIEZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 11!!!!1!11!!!!!!111!

he is teh g0dz of teh fiziks!


but seriously, if it doesn't destroy the world, then yay. if it does, well I'll be dead so who cares.

[FreePlay]

So there's really no definite way of knowing for sure that the black holes will infact disappear.

But there is a definite way of knowing that the only size black holes generated by the LHC could be would be subatomic, and that they MIGHT have a mass-energy of a few grams by the time the earth burns up in the expanding, dying sun.

[Archaemic]

And I quote, from the first page.

I don't think that it's going to create a black hole that will kill us all. Even if it does create miniature black holes, they will evaporate quickly (Hawking radiation has to come from SOMEWHERE, right? ...assuming Hawking radiation actually exists, at least) and not get much time to suck stuff up (nor much stuff to suck up. Their event horizons are so small that primarily what they're warping is vacuum). I don't know if it'll find any God Particles, but it'll sure provide a lot of data to be crunched.

Here, I'll do some math for you. Let's assume that it's smashing two electrons together with a total energy of 14 TeV (about what it can do). This means the resulting black hole would have a mass of 14 TeV/c^2 = 2.4962*10^-23 kg. That's really tiny. So let's calculate its Schwarzschild radius: 3.694376*10^-50 m. That is so tiny...you can't even conceive how tiny that is. One electron is on the order of 10^-18 m. So really, nothing CAN'T escape from that radius.

(emphasis added)

Don't worry about the black holes. They won't do anything.

[reaperchad]

Well, hypothetically how long would it take for a substantial black hole to consume the earth? Would we be informed of our remaining time?

...I'm pretty sure this won't happen, but its an interesting thought to consider.