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Black Holes From The Lhc Could Survive For Minutes
Topic Started: Jan 27 2009, 11:40 PM (662 Views)
DragonLegend
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One potential method of destruction is that the LHC will create tiny black holes that could swallow everything in their path including the planet. In 2002, Roberto Casadio at the Universita di Bologna in Italy and a few pals reassured the world that this was not possible because the black holes would decay before they got the chance to do any damage.

Now they're not so sure.  The question is not simply how quickly a mini-black hole decays but whether this decay always outpaces any growth.

Casadio have reworked the figures and now say that:  "the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible."

Does not seem possible? That's not the unequivocal reassurance that particle physicists have been giving us up till now.

What's more, the new calculations throw up a tricky new prediction. In the past, it had always been assumed that black holes would decay in the blink of an eye.

Not any more. Casadio and co say:  "the expected decay times are much longer (and possibly longer than 1 sec) than is typically predicted by other models."

Whoa, let's have that again: these mini black holes will be hanging around for seconds, possibly minutes?

That doesn't sound good. Anybody at CERN care to clarify?
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Commie-Red
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They activated the LHC months ago and nothing happened. I'm not scared.
"Religion is never a problem, it's the people who use it to gain power."
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Jan 27 2009, 06:42 PM
They activated the LHC months ago and nothing happened. I'm not scared.

This. :blink:
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It "is scheduled to begin serious research work later this year."

I guess they're gonna do it again.
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Awesome. And the world will...



















...not give a damn about it.
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Jan 27 2009, 11:42 PM
They activated the LHC months ago and nothing happened. I'm not scared.

#1. It never got to full power
#2. It broke
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Ya, the liquid hydrogen ran out or something of that nature. Also, It's not going to kill us this is just anti-science BS.
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Love and Hate are only impediments to the human condition.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race could shed our humanity.

When the facts change, my mind changes. What do you do, sir?

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Nothing's going to happen. If we die, I'd welcome it. This world has too many problems as it is, and no-one wants to die, so having a global, quick and painless end to existence without most people's forewarning, it will be like falling asleep... and then disappearing of the face of the Universe.
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Am I going to die?!?!? You couldn't tell me that earlier? :o
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It doesn't instill confidence in human morals that they are still willing to go ahead with this.

I'd much rather they did something that's proven productive, and won't have the minutest risk of killing us all:
Stem cell research, on useful types, not like how the christianofascist republican administration had it.
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was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

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So it's a choice between finding a particle that might not even exist, or death? I'm torn.
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Wow, black holes smaller than the smallest cell in your body lasting for a mere few minutes? How terrifying.
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Do remember that the gravity of a black hole is proportional to its mass. Please.
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Ww2nerd
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Yes, but they have incredible mass. Even more violent than White dwarfs, which are so dense a teaspoon would weigh more than the earth.
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by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Jack the IV
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Yes, so how is the LHC gonna make a black hole?
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