http://www.cracked.com/article_16583_5-scientific-experiments-most-likely-end-world.html

multiple mentions of the Large Hadron Collider.

One can only hope that's actually what'll happen.

My inner very prominent geek feels the need to mention that the gravitational forces of black holes are omni-directional, unlike this video where apparently CERN makes a new kind of black hole in which gravity is only present on one side.

still better than four more years of Bush or McCain.

Chances of that happening are so low, but on the plus side, if it dose, we wont know about it

OMG THAT IS AWESOME I CANT WAIT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN!!!

I eagerly await the LHC experiment results.

That said, I'm having real trouble reading the title of this video as anything else but the LARGE HARDON COLLIDER.

I for one welcome our new instant nirvana overlords.

Poor simulation, it would not spreadout continually over the surface of the earth. It would reach the other side first and then form kind of a ring before completely shrinking everything. Space would warp too. That's what simulations actually predict. Wait, maybe I said too much.

I'm willing to die in the name of science. Think of it...we'll all be martyred. Who cares if there's nobody left over to appreciate it.

>> ^Maze:
I eagerly await the LHC experiment results.
That said, I'm having real trouble reading the title of this video as anything else but the LARGE HARDON COLLIDER.


Large Hardon Collider, also known as Jenna Jameson vs. the World's Largest Dildo, coming to an adult movie store near you.

We're science! We're all about could've, not should've!

The funniest thing is that the Earth is bombarded all the time with particles having millions of times more energy than anything the LHC will produce...if this were possible it would have happened billions of years ago.

The LHC rams particles into eachother and is said the generate 14 TeV of energy from the colision.

1.6×10-7 J, one TeV (teraelectronvolt), about the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito

so about 8 or 9 mosquito's worth of energy. But that high impact does have a risk of forming mBHs (micro black holes). They will also collide lead nuclei with a collision energy of 1,150 TeV. It takes about 2 microvolts to speak a syllable of a word, so a little less than that.

^ ^ Umm. Ya, but I don't think I've ever seen a mosquito burrow 16 feet into a multi-ton block of compressed carbon.

That being said, I have run into one at 130km/h on a motorbike with no face shield. Ouch.

Where's the cream filling?

Oh, I read that as "Hardon Collider"

^ Those collisions planned at LHC have no - that's ZERO, NIL, NONE, NOUGHT, NADA, ZIP - risk of creating micro black holes unless one supplements the standard model of particle physics with several extensions that factor in the possibility of extra spatial dimensions which these micro black holes might originate from. And even then those very same extensions lead one to conclude that the decay on those mbhs due to Hawking radiation would have them existing (and not in a manner in which they can do ANY harm) for a matter of seconds at the outside.

So whoever made this video - DIAF. That's right - you should die in a freaking fire for attempting to induce mass hysteria based on your complete fucking ignorance.

Even if black holes were created they'd evaporate too quickly to do anything.

^ What I said, in a nutshell, yeah.

You support these librul Euro wacko hippy experiments then, qm?

>> ^EDD:
^ Those collisions planned at LHC have no - that's ZERO, NIL, NONE, NOUGHT, NADA, ZIP - risk of creating micro black holes unless one supplements the standard model of particle physics with several extensions that factor in the possibility of extra spatial dimensions which these micro black holes might originate from. And even then those very same extensions lead one to conclude that the decay on those mbhs due to Hawking radiation would have them existing (and not in a manner in which they can do ANY harm) for a matter of seconds at the outside.
So whoever made this video - DIAF. That's right - you should die in a freaking fire for attempting to induce mass hysteria based on your complete fucking ignorance.


Wasn't there also a fear of that strange matter (quark matter) in the form of Strangelets being created as well?

"Clearly this potential risk is based on speculative theories. But
these theories were constructed to explore real possibilities. The probability
that they are correct is not negligible."

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Quantum black holes are in principle unstable, i.e. they evaporate because
no conserved quantum number forbids them to do so. However, it is well
known that their Hawking luminosity is strongly suppressed with respect to
semiclassical expectations for black-hole masses below the Planck mass in
4 space-time dimensions.

^ CONCERNING STRANGELETS:

First of all, strangelets are merely hypothetical type of matter. None have so far been observed or produced.

Secondly, the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) in the US has been working for 8 years now and no strangelets have been produced there. In comparison, LHC collisions will have more energy, thus making it even less probable a strangelet might form (equivalent would be ice forming in boiling water). In addition, LHC quarks will be even more dilute than at RHIC.

Read this study on RHIC by MIT, Yale and Princeton physicists to find out more.

Reminds me of 2010 when Europa implodes to make a star.

^ close. that was jupiter imploding.

europa is life's backup plan.

Hmm, that's true! It's been a while since I saw it.

I won't upvote this, i'm hoping it stays at 42

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