Sponsor |  tonyenkiducx | Mar 4, 1:31am | | The LHC is, despite all it's complexity, not a sniper rifle, it's a 12-bore shotgun. If they keep shooting wildly into the ether for long enough, they will find everything they want. |
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Sponsor | | PinGUY | Mar 10, 7:51am | UK scientists have been trying to simulate conditions near the event horizons that shroud black holes, and they've cleverly simulated a horizon using pulses of light in a special optical fiber. So, no disastrous gravity well was made and the World didn't suddenly end with a horrible crunch. But they did create an analog of a black hole that helped them understand some of the weird and whacky physics that goes on near real ones.
The team actually made "completely harmless" black hole and white hole horizons in pairs, at a rate of 80 million a second, by piling up and stretching out ultrashort light pulses in the modified optical fiber. They even detected blue-shifting effects at the white hole horizons, which is predicted by theory.
Next on their agenda may be examining even more interesting quantum stuff like the radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking in his "black holes ain't so black" theory. I know its not about the LHC but its still about black holes.
sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5868/1367 [sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5868/1367] |
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Sponsor | | WayneSmallman | Mar 19, 2:25pm | Or as friend of mine said quite by accident -- and who, incidentally is a scientist, of all things -- the Large Hard-on Collider.
I dread to think of the consequences... |
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Sponsor | | PinGUY | Mar 26, 9:13am | Have you heard about the lawsuit claiming that CERN's Large Hadron Collider is a Doomsday machine? The suit filed in Hawaii's US District Court by Luis Sancho and a former nuclear safety officer by the name of Walter Wagner, seeks to put the already delayed LHC launch on hold pending a new safety review. It's worth noting that the same doomsday scenarios of micro black holes and strangelets (think: the Midas Touch of death) have been raised by Wagner previously with the launch of other accelerators -- they've also been summarily dismissed by the scientific community as "beyond reasonable." It's also worth noting that the 27km-long LHC crisscrosses the border between France and Switzerland, not the US. An initial conference on the lawsuit is scheduled for June 16th, a few months before the first collisions are scheduled to begin and well before LHC is capable of its 4 trillion electron-volts maximum power.
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx [cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx]
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No, the LHC won't destroy the Earth |
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Sponsor | | Stellare | Apr 3, 8:07am | If it is ONE thing humans are well adopted to, it's radiation. We are bombarded by radiation from the Universe - and survive. Even thrive.
As for the LHC, just read the official LHC security pages. :-) |
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Sponsor | | Kibiyama | Apr 3, 8:14am | | 44: Oh, sure, it's easy for you to say it won't destroy the Earth. If you're wrong, there's nobody left to mock you. |
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Sponsor | | DeepSix | Apr 3, 11:38am | | 45: Not so much so according to this list... |
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