Large Hadron Collider - Death Threats (2 Viewers)

[HNAKXR]

^Hasty and risky progress benefits no-one.

I am mildly concerned about the consequences.

we should never let the fear of 'consequences' impede us.

 

[jewoneimon]

well... i'll just be kidnapping a couple of scientists and get them to create a spaceship or something so i can get off this planet when things go wrong

 

[addikaye03]

if ur all so sure that this thing will destroy Earth on october 21st, why bother studying i dare you..lol

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/lubos.motl/SMGDyZZGmnI/AAAAAAAAA8I/blX8-s55YTk/stop-lhc-joke.jpg?imgmax=400
Dw, it's all okay

Seriously the people that are having a cry about this don't understand science.

AREN'T YOU AN ENGINEER!!?!?!?!?!?

lol

mebbe lol

if engineer
then success
else
fail

 

[undalay]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24317385-5014239,00.html

"world's biggest physics experiments have received death threats amidst fears they could destroy the world."

anyone else see the irony here

"Watch the "Large Hadron Rap" below for an explanation of what the accelerator does:"

shows how serious the scientists are about it

 

[squeenie]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24317385-5014239,00.html

"world's biggest physics experiments have received death threats amidst fears they could destroy the world."

anyone else see the irony here

"Watch the "Large Hadron Rap" below for an explanation of what the accelerator does:"

shows how serious the scientists are about it

Hey, don't dismiss the rap. It's quite accurate, and it makes particle physics just that little bit easier to understand.

I'm not worried about this. Even if a black hole was created, it can easily be contained by shutting down the LHC, and creating a vaccuum environment so the black hole can't absorb anything and then deal with it later.

So really, we have nothing to lose from this, much to gain, and as Farfour said, $9 billion is nothing compared to what gets spent on military and defence.

 

[bigboyjames]

religious fagots at it again. fuck off.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

I'm not worried about this. Even if a black hole was created, it can easily be contained by shutting down the LHC, and creating a vaccuum environment so the black hole can't absorb anything and then deal with it later.

Oh my God it looks like a black hole is developing at a rapid pace!
What shall we do?
Shall we create a vacuum to seal it in?
Perhaps. What do you all think, comrades?
Let us create a vacuum.
Then we shall store it in a vial for later!

Point: Doesn't all this happen remarkably quickly? Seems dangerous.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Seems like there's reason for conCERN

hahahahaha

 

[Omium]

AREN'T YOU AN ENGINEER!!?!?!?!?!?

lol

mebbe lol

if engineer
then success
else
fail

OMG grfgklsdhcv'lksdhfl'chsd'lkcfhskldbhclk'sdncflskdbfsdf

programming...

 

[squeenie]

Oh my God it looks like a black hole is developing at a rapid pace!
What shall we do?
Shall we create a vacuum to seal it in?
Perhaps. What do you all think, comrades?
Let us create a vacuum.
Then we shall store it in a vial for later!

Point: Doesn't all this happen remarkably quickly? Seems dangerous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_the_Large_Hadron_Collider#Micro_black_holes

Otto Rössler believes that micro black holes created in the LHC could grow exponentially.[31][32][33][34] Hermann Nicolai, Director of the Albert Einstein Institute, in Germany, has examined Otto Rössler's research paper on the safety of the LHC[32] and concluded that "this text would not pass the referee process in a serious journal."[35][36] Domenico Giulini has also commented with Hermann Nicolai on the validity of Otto Rössler's arguments about the production of black holes at the LHC, concluding that "his argument concerns only the General Theory of Relativity (GRT), and makes no logical connection to LHC physics; the argument is not valid; the argument is not self-consistent."[37]

If black holes were created in the LHC, they'd be quite small, and would most likely dissipate through Hawking Radiation.

Also, the LHC isn't powerful enough to create micro black holes that easily.

 

[hopethisworks]

tomorrow someone will ÷ 0


OH SHI-

 

[squeenie]

tomorrow someone will ÷ 0


OH SHI-

Let me complete that for you:

OH SHIT! I JUST BROKE THE UNIVERSE!

 

[Omium]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_the_Large_Hadron_Collider#Micro_black_holes



If black holes were created in the LHC, they'd be quite small, and would most likely dissipate through Hawking Radiation.

Also, the LHC isn't powerful enough to create micro black holes that easily.

Er your in your HSC year.
No offence but I doubt you really know what your talking bout?

 

[Kwayera]

Er your in your HSC year.
No offence but I doubt you really know what your talking bout?

She does.

 

[squeenie]

Er your in your HSC year.
No offence but I doubt you really know what your talking bout?

While I'm sure you have good reasons to believe it, not every 08er here is stupid beyond comprehension.

At least I did some research. Wikipedia might not be the most reliable source, but it's good enough for the purposes of this thread.

 

[Serius]

shit!! I hope they look out for the resonance cascade lest we have another black mesa incident.

http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1220538848592za7.jpg

this is awesome, i am hoping they find something and its not some massive multi billion dollar waste of money that cant even be used for anything afterwards.

also didnt they show something like this in terminator 3? and then they turned it on and the terminator got stuck to it? was that just a total load of crap and wouldnt happen or what?

 

[5233andy]

Ten billion dollars... More than the GDP of some of the world's underdeveloped countries combined... What has the world come to?

I can't see any benefits with the LHC, let alone light in it.

 

[squeenie]

Ten billion dollars... More than the GDP of some of the world's underdeveloped countries combined... What has the world come to?

I can't see any benefits with the LHC, let alone light in it.

This has already been mentioned:

What? It's going to completely enhance our understanding of physics... this will bring more benefit to the poor through new technologies that can come from it, just as the internet and modern computing and modern communications came from the other CERN experiments.

Dude this is a third of what it'd cost for parts of the US arms program, it's an incredibly intelligent investment of money so that we can link up quantum theory with newtonian mechanics, and then come to a better understanding of our place in the universe.

Gravity, man, gravitons, gravity, do you understand?

It might help to read the rest of the thread first.

 

[Farfour]

AREN'T YOU AN ENGINEER!!?!?!?!?!?

lol

mebbe lol

if engineer
then success
else
fail

I am ninjaneer who understands particle physics and finds strangelets to be lulz.