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Large Hadron Collider

WHAT WILL HAPPEN

  • nothing

    Votes: 12 27.3%

  • nothing

    Votes: 11 25.0%

  • large hadron collider more like large hardon collider

    Votes: 21 47.7%
  • Total voters
    44
you know

developing the abilities to completely destroy one's own species, ecosystem, and then planet have to be some sort of milestones in social development

if we do manage to destroy the Earth at least it'll mean we have reached that level of awesome
 
Well, as the community resident particle physicist, let me give my views.

All of our best physics models show that there is no cause for concern about some black hole suddenly appearing and wiping us out. Here's the main reason: At the energy scale talked about, on the off chance a black hole is created, it will pretty much instantly evaporate. While classically black holes are not supposed to let anything escape from them, when you add quantum mechanics to the equations, you get a thermal spectrum of emissions. Particles can actually "tunnel" out of black holes, allowing them to shrink. This happens much more often for small black holes, meaning they vaporize very quickly as all their mass races to tunnel out from them.

Any questions?
 
By quickly, I'm talking timescales on the order of 10^-25 seconds... You can't really verify anything else has entered it by then... and you can barely even verify that a "black hole" was created in that time.
 
hahaha opal I just realised you have your gender set to female that is actually hilarious

ontopic: please let the black holes be created so that it can suck up some idiots :)
 
To be honest, I really don't like it how people think they're clever by setting their gender to the opposite of what it really is. I mean, the gender in the postbit thing is a very helpful tool, but when people just say the wrong gender just for the heck of it, it kind of defeats the entire purpose. :|
 
What? October? It better not happen before my birthday.
Oh, well. What a wasted life. *sigh*
Doubt anything will happen.
 
totally offtopic: If we only use about 10% of our brains, and we've already destroyed most of everything around us- ourselves, then what would happen if we started using more, well then again, If we used enough we might not need so much from our enviroment... oh well...
ontopic: Oh and don't forget me on the awesome list, because being is awesome even though there will almost defineitely be no black hole. This whole LHC thing sounds like something out of a book...
 
The "we only use 10% of our brains" thing is a misconception/myth. It's not true.
 
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