Pages: 1 2  Next -- Posted by Crazy snake at 8:22 am on Sep. 4, 2008 What is this I hear about some scientists (Sweedish physists I think), doing something next Wednesday? Apparantly its something to do with speeding up atoms (particle accellerator?), and people fear that it could open a black hole or something, and destroy Earth? It was on the news last night, and the applied maths teacher was talking about it to my friend. What's going on? and can I have a link to a site explaining it if possible? And what's this about it having enough power to open a black hole and destroy the planet? :/ I'm not worried, I just want to know what's going on. How could it cause a black hole anyway? -- Posted by Chasey at 8:23 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Aren't they trying to recreate the big bang ? -- Posted by Latin Muscle at 8:24 am on Sep. 4, 2008 The large hadron collider will  destroy the world. -- Posted by Alabamarama at 8:24 am on Sep. 4, 2008 The Hadron Collider is going to be revved up, I guess. The chance that it'll make a black hole is like 1/10000000000, so I wouldn't worry. That's the day I go back to school! -- Posted by LadyAlice18 at 8:24 am on Sep. 4, 2008 I doubt the swedish are dumb enough to pull one like that -- Posted by yunasfinalfantasy at 8:24 am on Sep. 4, 2008 i think that if a black hole can be opened then these scientists need to be arrested, they will keel us all. -- Posted by verl mcverl at 8:25 am on Sep. 4, 2008 OMG! I heard about this on BBC's Horizon programme, weren;t they originally gonna do it november last year or something... This rings bells -- Posted by Natsy at 8:25 am on Sep. 4, 2008 you mean the hadron collider thing? don't worry, we'll survive... -- Posted by Crazy snake at 8:26 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Alabamarama at 4:24 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 The Hadron Collider is going to be revved up, I guess. The chance that it'll make a black hole is like 1/10000000000, so I wouldn't worry.   That's the day I go back to school! Hadron collider. Judging by the name, its for generating power by atom splitting yeah? Or something like particle acceleration? -- Posted by batman113 at 8:27 am on Sep. 4, 2008 If we were all gonna die why would they let them do it?? -- Posted by Scandol5Mossie at 8:27 am on Sep. 4, 2008 thats fucking nuts -- Posted by Alabamarama at 8:28 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Crazy snake at 10:26 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Alabamarama at 4:24 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 The Hadron Collider is going to be revved up, I guess. The chance that it'll make a black hole is like 1/10000000000, so I wouldn't worry.  That's the day I go back to school! Hadron collider. Judging by the name, its for generating power by atom splitting yeah? Or something like particle acceleration? I think that they're trying to recreate the big bang; the particles that they'll be smashing are supposed to like create matter when they collide or some such thing. -- Posted by wavelength84 at 8:28 am on Sep. 4, 2008 thats my gals birthday -- Posted by Link01 at 8:29 am on Sep. 4, 2008 lets all hide on that date -- Posted by DirtyConspiracy at 8:30 am on Sep. 4, 2008 My physics teacher is going crazy about it. I'm not quite sure what is going to happen, but she's stuck up posters all over school. -- Posted by Crazy snake at 8:30 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Alabamarama at 4:28 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Crazy snake at 10:26 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Alabamarama at 4:24 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 The Hadron Collider is going to be revved up, I guess. The chance that it'll make a black hole is like 1/10000000000, so I wouldn't worry.       That's the day I go back to school!    Hadron collider. Judging by the name, its for generating power by atom splitting yeah? Or something like particle acceleration? I think that they're trying to recreate the big bang; the particles that they'll be smashing are supposed to like create matter when they collide or some such thing. That's a very big risk in fairness. Chemistry laws state that matter can't be created or destroyed -- Posted by Bearsy at 8:30 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Have a happy Apocalypse everyone. -- Posted by Latin Muscle at 8:32 am on Sep. 4, 2008 My physics prof. said that people who think we are going to die are "damn idiots". All true, He is right. The large hadron collider can't be powerful enough to create a massive blackhole, it may make mini blackholes - but they will die off in less than a second. Not enough for the mini blackholes to build up into a real big one. So, we will surivive. -- Posted by Alabamarama at 8:32 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Crazy snake at 10:30 am on Sep. 4, 2008 That's a very big risk in fairness. Chemistry laws state that matter can't be created or destroyed True, it is, but they're willing to take it in the name of science. The big bang was an anomaly (if it happened?), and the laws may have to be changed if this whole deal is successful. -- Posted by FurryPanther at 8:33 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Crazy snake at 9:30 am on Sep. 4, 2008 That's a very big risk in fairness. Chemistry laws state that matter can't be created or destroyed No. It states that matter and energy must be conserved. By Einstein's general theory of relativity, you can create matter by expending energy, and you can create energy by expending matter. So if they put a whole buttload of energy into this, it is conceivable that they could convert it to matter. FP -- Posted by Latin Muscle at 8:35 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Aliens will come thru the blackhole that  the large hadron collider will create. -- Posted by FurryPanther at 8:35 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from latin muscle at 9:35 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Aliens will come thru the blackhole that the large hadron collider will create. And get stuck in the contained collider tubing? Oh horror... FP -- Posted by Link01 at 8:36 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Its Bearsy Bitch at 4:30 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 Have a happy Apocalypse everyone. na we will just see God in the shower -- Posted by Crazy snake at 8:38 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from FurryPanther at 4:33 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Crazy snake at 9:30 am on Sep. 4, 2008 That's a very big risk in fairness. Chemistry laws state that matter can't be created or destroyed No. It states that matter and energy must be conserved. By Einstein's general theory of relativity, you can create matter by expending energy, and you can create energy by expending matter. So if they put a whole buttload of energy into this, it is conceivable that they could convert it to matter. FP Yeah, but I mean come on, isn't this taking it a bit far? I mean, as a member above said, it would probably only make micro black holes, that wouldn't last a micro second. They've made these already anyway. But still, even though theoretically it is possible, attempting to make matter, by means of massive particle acceleration, is a slight risk, is it not? This is like, speeding atoms up faster than ever before, and though it is unlikely, what if there were major consequences? Physists can't be 100% sure with this, they've never attempted it before. (I'm not worried, just curious) -- Posted by Link01 at 8:38 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from latin muscle at 4:35 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 Aliens will come thru the blackhole that the large hadron collider will create. they will look like this i mean this -- Posted by Crazy snake at 8:41 am on Sep. 4, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider -- Posted by Chasey at 8:41 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from DirtyConspiracy at 4:30 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 My physics teacher is going crazy about it. I'm not quite sure what is going to happen, but she's stuck up posters all over school. I'd love it if she wore a collinder on her head and a billboard and ran around screaming "the end is neeear!" -- Posted by DirtyConspiracy at 9:03 am on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from Chasey at 4:41 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 Quote: from DirtyConspiracy at 4:30 pm on Sep. 4, 2008 My physics teacher is going crazy about it. I'm not quite sure what is going to happen, but she's stuck up posters all over school. I'd love it if she wore a collinder on her head and a billboard and ran around screaming "the end is neeear!" Ha, that would be good. But she's not against it, she's really excited. It's like Christmas come early for her. -- Posted by Dannay at 9:04 am on Sep. 4, 2008 That seems coolies, isit something that will generate power or something and you would need hardly any of it to generate power for millions of homes? -- Posted by allsmiles at 9:30 am on Sep. 4, 2008 If memory serves, one of the purposes of this is to prove the existence of other dimensions to the four we know of currently, on top of the obvious proving the existence of theoretical particles. I really can't wait for this :D for the record, it's at CERN, in Switzerland, not Sweden. Pages: 1 2  Next