Will CERN make black holes that will consume the Earth?

[chequita guevara]

Commies support science. Our philosophy isn't called scientific socialism for nothing.

[chequita guevara]

Quick, Lancer, which weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?

[Lancer]

[chequita guevara]

It's simply a function of gravity, my friend. Mass generates gravity, so micro mass means micro gravity, no matter how dense the mass. A black hole smaller than an atom doesn't have enough mass to destroy the Earth. Furthermore, since most matter is just empty space (I know, that seems paradoxical), a micro black hole could travel through the Earth without striking anything. If you squeezed all the empty space out of the Earth, the resulting lump would be about the size of a ping pong ball. This is simply a non issue.

[Lancer]

I'll find the link later but they speculate that you are correct, it would take years and possibly decades before the tiny black hole chanced upon hitting enough tiny stuff to grow to the point that it would pull in the stuff around it.

Gotta go. Bbl.

[PLATO]

This was a somewhat worthy attempt to draw KrazyHorse back in...sadly it was inadequate.

[Lancer]

Che, I found the link for you, no small task!

http://themoderatevoice.com/science/natural-disasters/20557/cern-and-lch-black-holes-part-three/

NOTE: None of the parties involved on either side are saying that this disastrous scenario will happen, simply that it’s possible that it might and more study may be required. The events described below are only what would happen if a worst case scenario played out.
We Won’t Know Right Away: After the experiment fires, even in the event that the worst case scenario unfolds, there will not be a sudden plop resulting in a black hole squatting in some chamber in the accelerator tunnel. Nor will there be any War Games style computer alarm going off saying “Black Hole Detected! Run for your lives!” Any number of microscopic black holes (MBHs) would be created, and they would be travelling at a very high speed. Since the MBHs are about the size of a neutrino, they pass through almost all matter, dancing between the individual atoms, without slowing down. The scientists would have only a fraction of a second to detect them and then they would go winging out of the chamber, even through the Earth itself, and out into space.
The One That Didn’t Get Away: Any MBHs which have escape velocity (something in the range of 250,000 mph or more) will zip off into space and hopefully become Somebody Else’s Problem. (SEP) However, one or more may be traveling a bit slower than that and would be captured into “orbit” by the Earth’s gravity. It would swing around and begin looping out through space and back through the Earth, through buildings… even through YOU with no harm caused an nobody noticing. (Remember the neutrinos?) Every once in a while the MBH would interact with a particle and absorb it, slowly increasing its mass and shortening its orbit until it eventually was orbiting entirely inside the planet.
Couldn’t We Detect It Zinging Around?: No. We’ve been looking for evidence of a neutrino (any neutrino) interacting randomly with any particle for decades. The results have been, to say the least, disappointing. Our chances of finding a specific MBH swinging around through the Earth would be effectively zilch.
When The End Comes, It Comes Fast: Hopefully Dr. Wagner and his associates aren’t the type to enjoy saying, “I told you so” because they won’t have much time to do it. The MBH will take some time to build up enough mass through these random collisions until it can do any serious damage. Estimates range from as little as five years or less up to a millenium. We just don’t know. But when it does reach a size where it can start quickly “eating” mass, it will begin carving out the center of the planet like a melon ball spoon. Dr. Wagner notes that we won’t have much notice… “possibly a couple of earthquakes” but by then the formerly microscopic but now full-fledged black hole will be consuming matter at a horrific rate, followed by the collapse of the planet down into a single black hole the size of a golf ball. And that, as they say, would be that.
We recently launched the GLAST Telescope which, among other missions, will search for evidence of Hawkings Radiation. This is one of the elements of the discussion arguing for the safety of the LCH experiments. Proof of Hawkings Radiation (which is still purely theoretical) would indicate the any MBHs produced during the experiment would “evaporate” away without doing any damage. Some opponents of the project would like to at least wait until the GLAST research is completed before attempting the LCH collisions

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Commies support science. Our philosophy isn't called scientific socialism for nothing.

Yep, and Lysenko was one of the big prohets

[chequita guevara]

[Lancer]

Here's a blond to make sense of it all.

[Aeson]

She's one of the better youtubers.

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Lancer
Here's a blond to make sense of it all.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Lancer
Here's a blond to make sense of it all.

1) She is the poster child for why nonscientists shouldn't even be told about scientific theories. "We're colliding protons together, whereas cosmic rays are just hitting a stationary object." I cried

2) She really needs to fix the gamma in that video.

[Heraclitus]

I think the real reason why we hear so much of this "end of the world talk" because USAians are jealous that we Euros finally got a Secret Project first.



Cost: 300
Prerequisite Technology: Applied Relativity
Effect: Research output at this base is doubled.

"God does not play dice."
-- Albert Einstein, Datalinks

[Heraclitus]

"A supercollider is a high-energy particle accelerator. The 80 km long Superconducting Super Collider, which before its cancellation in October 1993 due to the large cost, was planned for construction in Waxahachie, Texas, is one such device. The device would have been capable of accelerating beams of protons to energies of 20 TeV per beam.

Other machines that could be called supercolliders are the Tevatron, currently operating at Fermilab, and [B]the Large Hadron Collider, due to begin operations in 2008 at CERN." from Wiki


I don't really blame you, Jang has been building up industry like crazy and you have to keep up militarily if not industrially. But you will still probably need to planet bust his ass in 30 or so turns.