From:  Hooligan
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On: 2008/09/09 03:45:25
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Not got enough to worry about? Read this http://public.w....ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html
of course it's designed to put your fears to rest, but science has been wrong before hasn't it? If the risk of a mini-black hole isn't bad enough, there's also 'strange matter' and 'vacuum bubbles' to think about.
Wonder what Sarah Palin thinks about this one?
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From: PaulHews
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On: 2008/09/09 05:58:42
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>but science has been wrong before hasn't it?
The best argument for safety is that the LHC doesn't outdo anything that nature has been doing to our planet for billions of years. If cosmic rays operating at those energy levels caused those things, then we would already see the effects.
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From: stone5150
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On: 2008/09/09 06:50:38
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Sarah Palin believes that she can convert the strange matter to hetero matter with prayer and acting like a bitch.
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From: DRRYAN3
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On: 2008/09/09 08:36:49
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Intolerance while promoting tolerance. There's something I haven't seen recently.
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From: Hooligan
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On: 2008/09/10 10:20:21
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if all that's going around is a few particles then the black hole won't have much mass will it? And therefore be very small indeed
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From: PaulHews
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On: 2008/09/10 11:17:45
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>And therefore be very small indeed
14 TeV = 2.4962e-23 Kg or so, so pretty small, if it's even possible.
If Hawking radiation exists, then it will evaporate on a time scale that is a similarly small number.
If Hawking was wrong, and microscopic black holes can be stable, then
A) There should be a lot of them flying around already.
B) It's unclear how quickly they would accrete mass. At that scale, gravity is much weaker than all the other forces, so it seems to me that it would depend on chance collisions with other particles. And given that even the dense core of the Earth is mostly empty space...
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From: Hooligan
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On: 2008/09/12 08:09:07
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sounds like a crossover of quantum and relativistic effects, you need to knock up a quick paper on 'The accretion and evaporation of low size order black holes', coining the term 'Hews' radiation.
BTW you can bet on them discovering the particle
http://www.padd...9&ev_oc_grp_ids=86567&bir_index=
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From: Hooligan
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On: 2008/09/18 04:02:07
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This conversation is now closed.
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