Having read another blog entry about lawsuits to stop the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and the comments of the blogger I feal I must talk about how some people thing the LHC will destory the would (which it will not do).
Black Hole.
They say that the LHC could create a black hole that could consume the world.
First off due to Hawking Radiation a micro black whole would just evaporate and even if Hawking Radiation doesn't exist the nature of things that small will cause it to evaporate. But even if one was created and it didn't evaporate it still would not destroy the world. It would be too small, very small, smaller than an atom, smaller than a proton, very, very small. It wouldn't start sucking things into it, its mass would equal the mass of the particles that made it at with the energy they had at the point of collision (energy is equal to mass times the velocity of light squared so something with more energy has more mass) and that mass would be tinny. it would have to collide with an atom to absorb it into itself but it could only absorb only a small portion of an atom or even a proton or neutron and that would be rare. It would take probably trillions of years before it gains enough mass that its gravity starts sucking things into it and the earth would long ago have been destroyed by the sun at the end of the suns life.
Strangelet
Strangelet are a form is strange matter, hypothetical sub-atomic particles they contain equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks (a proton contain 2 up quarks and 1 down, neutron contain 1 up and 2 down).
The "danger" is that is when a strangelet hits the nucleus of an atom it converts it into strange matter which then could hit another nucleus creating a chain reaction. The problem is these are hypothetical particles and even if they exist the chances of the LHC creating a strangelet are so small as to be effectively imposable.
There are cosmic rays flying through the universe with much higher energy's than will be used in the LHC and these particles have been colliding with objects in the universe for billions of years. The earth, moon sun and all other objects in the solar system have been hit with these higher energy cosmic rays for 6 billion years. If the LHC could destroy the world these cosmic rays would have destroyed the earth long ago.
The LHC will not destroy the world. It will come on line, it will smash particles into each other, they will uncover amazing new physics and the earth will survive.
Theres no recreating the big band, there simulating condition during the very early universe.
It something goes wrong the most that could happen is one of the detectors gets damaged. What would they do if that happens? I don’t know.
Hehe,Wouldnt be surprised if you was in on the machine
You know so much.
No. I’m just interested in physics and most of the sciences.
Where did you learn all this stuff its very intresting =), And im sure as hell you dint learn this in school hehe
A variety of sources. on-line science magazine (the free parts, don’t have the money for subscriptions) Discovery channel use to be good but not so much anymore, National Geographic Channel and others.
As for information on the LHC it self; There are a few links in the post and there you can find on google.
Here are a few more.
Kool, Its something i can really get into
Last time nothing happened. This machine will NEVER be perfected, and if it is, the worst that could happen is that black holes would be created, and take a HUGE amount of time to suck earth into it. It will probably have another sort of malfunction crap again and they will have to fix it. It’ll never work.
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