i personally believe this could be the end of the world as i think it will generate black holes. what do you guys think ?
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. It lies in a tunnel under France and Switzerland.
The LHC is in the final stages of construction and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of approximately 2K. The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later.[1] The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.[2] The LHC is being funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.[3][2] The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches[4] are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.[5]
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QUOTE (hocus @ Jun 2 2008, 02:27 PM) 
i personally believe this could be the end of the world as i think it will generate black holes. what do you guys think ?
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. It lies in a tunnel under France and Switzerland.
The LHC is in the final stages of construction and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of approximately 2K. The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later.[1] The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.[2] The LHC is being funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.[3][2] The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches[4] are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.[5]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. It lies in a tunnel under France and Switzerland.
The LHC is in the final stages of construction and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of approximately 2K. The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later.[1] The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.[2] The LHC is being funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.[3][2] The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches[4] are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.[5]
Personally I dont think that something out in to the Sci-Fi reaches like time lapses or black holes will happen here or even the end of the world.The reason:They are using sub-atomic particles,the energy released in the initial collision can not generate critical mass to form black-holes what so ever.
From a scientific point of view this is the device they have been waiting for.As this is our first step to reveal what happened at the time of the Big-Bang and to lay an old theory aka the Standard Model to rest.
Yeah, I seriously doubt this causing anything NEAR the scale of a black hole.
yeah i can both see where your coming from. but i think some things humans shouldnt mess with and maybe this is one of them. as much as it intrigues me and i want to know the origins of the universe i think maybe this could horribly wrong. fingers crossed all goes well though and we find out a few of those big questions of life
QUOTE (hocus @ Jun 2 2008, 09:24 AM)
yeah i can both see where your coming from. but i think some things humans shouldnt mess with and maybe this is one of them. as much as it intrigues me and i want to know the origins of the universe i think maybe this could horribly wrong. fingers crossed all goes well though and we find out a few of those big questions of life
We get hit by high energy particles all the time, particles having energies orders of magnetude higher than what LHC will ever be able to create. They come from space, and the Earth has still to be gobbled up by a black hole created by such means.
Put into perspective, LHC is childs toy compared to what is happening around us...
Cheers,
Badeskov
QUOTE (badeskov @ Jun 2 2008, 05:39 PM)
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Put into perspective, LHC is childs toy compared to what is happening around us...
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Put into perspective, LHC is childs toy compared to what is happening around us...
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Yes, indeed: LHC ~1e+13 eV, while cosmic-rays ~1e+20 eV (link - Fly's Eye)
I read the title wrong!! LMFAO! 
Dyslexia ALWAys gets me in trouble.
Dyslexia ALWAys gets me in trouble.
I read in several places that black holes need a critical mass to maintain. So very small ones will actually break down quicker then they could eat up any nearby matter. The threat is infinitesimal. I'm not sure what the critical mass needed is, but I'm assuming it is much larger then what a particle collider could handle.
I don't have any links, so this really is just my Opinion.
I don't have any links, so this really is just my Opinion.
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