Woohoo, the LHC has yet to destroy us all.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc. ... index.html

While I'm aware that the Hawking radiation believed to be given off by small black holes most likely causes them to pretty much evaporate, I can't help but think of a list from a journal a Bioengineering professor in my department had posted up on her door entitled "Top 20 Lab Mistakes".

"19. The world has scores of superpowerful particle accelerators. Last year, a fireball created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton, New York, had the characteristics of a black hole. Physicists are reasonably sure that no such black holes could escape and consume Earth.

20. Reasonably."

Oh, but it will. Just like in Spiderman 2, it will grow and grow, and suck in the whole planet ! !! !

wait, wait! isn't it the supercollider at CERN today that created the black hole ??

Merle

The one that created the fireball is one that's a fair deal smaller than the one at CERN. Comforting, I know.

Hasn't it already destroyed the world?

Sheesh, I won't know until tomorrow or so, I live in Oregon and it takes a while for that sort of thing to get to us.

Merle

What a pity.


As Mark Twain said, "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." I wish they'd wait for Thanksgiving to destroy the world so I'd be home in Cincinnati when it happens.

I find no other reference to any article entitled "Top 20 Lab Mistakes" on the web.

Could you please post a link or other reference to the article in question?

I truly wish I could, because when I asked the professor where I could get a copy of it, she said she had no idea, one of her grad students had found it, cut out the list, and given it to her. I only have a shody picture-phone image of the last three (18. That noise turned out to be the microwave echo of the Big Bang.) I'm pretty sure the Mars Rover where the two teams that built it, but one used English units while the other used Metric units, was one of them.

I just felt a tremor in The Force .....

Latest update, they haven't been able to focus the particle beam. Once they get all the super conducting magnets correctly polarized, POOF ! !! (We're toast.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/ ... n.collider

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdes ... ldyet.com/

I keep pressing refresh.. why? Why do I keep pressing refresh?!

They are starting to make them big enough that pretty soon they might as well build them in friggin space.

But then what will the earth children whine about?

They'll whine about all the jobs, money, and best minds leaving Earth for outer space.

Or maybe they'll accuse the Grand Unification Orbittal Collider for causing global warming.

They'll find something to complain about, even if there is no possible connection ... people do that.

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