[Update] CERN's Large Hadron Collider goes live
01-05-2008, 08:49
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Re: The END of the WORLD?
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
*gets out her Illudium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator*
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01-05-2008, 09:12
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Re: The END of the WORLD?
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There is a CHANCE that it will create a black hole which would devour us all, but scientists aregue that it doesn't have the energy required to create such a scenario.
There are also various other risks associated with the machine.
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Discussion here.
All the leading scientists agree the risks outlined aren't even vaguely plausible, and the guy who proposed the lawsuit has been widely discredited.
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01-05-2008, 09:43
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Threads merged 
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01-05-2008, 09:49
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Gah, I now look like I'm talking to myself, at myself and linking to myself. Thanks... 
(probably about right!)
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01-05-2008, 10:50
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
I always thought talking to yourself was a sign of madness :p
Still you won't have to worry about that soon, after all we'll soon all be putting on the foil caps to stop us getting sucked into the hole
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01-05-2008, 11:29
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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I always thought talking to yourself was a sign of madness :p
Still you won't have to worry about that soon, after all we'll soon all be putting on the foil caps to stop us getting sucked into the hole
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Nah, it's answering yourself that is the indicator....... 
No, it isn't!
Yes, it is!
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01-05-2008, 14:43
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe
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Hmmm does this explain the mysterious reference in my particle physics notes
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01-05-2008, 14:50
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Re: The END of the WORLD?
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Discussion here.
All the leading scientists agree the risks outlined aren't even vaguely plausible, and the guy who proposed the lawsuit has been widely discredited.
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But everything is THEORETICAL. In such a scenario where a micro-black hole was formed, how do we know it wouldn't keep expanding? We're told it would be under the critical mass required for it to continue expanding, however there is NO evidence of a black hole ever collapsing.
Also, how we know we aren't the result of the previous LHC experiment gone wrong? I mean, we are simulating the moment after the big bang 
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01-05-2008, 17:02
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Re: The END of the WORLD?
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Also, how we know we aren't the result of the previous LHC experiment gone wrong? I mean, we are simulating the moment after the big bang |
Interesting 
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01-05-2008, 17:26
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Re: The END of the WORLD?
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Also, how we know we aren't the result of the previous LHC experiment gone wrong? I mean, we are simulating the moment after the big bang |
After being the operative word 
Now if we were simulating the moment before then I'd be worried...
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01-05-2008, 17:40
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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I wondered why the thread had suddenly come back to life?
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01-05-2008, 21:25
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Meh, Let scientists be scientists and doctors be doctors. Too much damage is done by people losing trust or presuming to know better than professionals. MMR jab anyone?
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19-07-2008, 08:49
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
They're starting to cool it down in preparation for switch on in a month or so.
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3 months to warm it up, replace a part & cool it down again if anything breaks!
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19-07-2008, 08:52
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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They're starting to cool it down in preparation for switch on in a month or so.
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3 months to warm it up, replace a part & cool it down again if anything breaks! |
Waits for the tin hat mob to say this is affecting the weather and is why we don't have any summer at the moment.
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19-07-2008, 08:57
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Re: Lawsuit over CERN's Large Hadron Collider
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Waits for the tin hat mob to say this is affecting the weather and is why we don't have any summer at the moment. |
Of course it is, we're going to be plunged into another ice age by mid August...
(Note to Sun editors, this headline is available for a nominal charge...)
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