Is the world about to end, LHC.

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Is the world about to end,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7543089.stm

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

And a few possibilities of what may happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole

Imo they shouldn't be messing around with such technology, building nukes and other far fetched devices isn't so bad. Something that may destroy the world if one thing goes wrong.... is.
 

karrie

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well, I'll be drinking beer and relaxing in the hot tub, just incase it is all gonna end.
 

hermanntrude

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Is the world about to end,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7543089.stm

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

And a few possibilities of what may happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole

Imo they shouldn't be messing around with such technology, building nukes and other far fetched devices isn't so bad. Something that may destroy the world if one thing goes wrong.... is.

these possibilities arent possibilities at all. they're things suggested by people with dramatic minds and not very much knowledge of the field. people thought the world would be eaten up in a giant chain-reaction when the first atom bomb was set off. they were the same kind of breed as this lot.

One of the better motives for this kind of talk is that it gets people to at least pretend to give a crap about the subject. be honest, you wouldn't even know what the LHC was if you couldn't run around like a headless chicken saying "the sky is falling"
 

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Perhaps our own universe is the result of a collider experiment gone wrong. Maybe we are going to find out what it really means to be gods?
 

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these possibilities arent possibilities at all. they're things suggested by people with dramatic minds and not very much knowledge of the field. people thought the world would be eaten up in a giant chain-reaction when the first atom bomb was set off. they were the same kind of breed as this lot.

One of the better motives for this kind of talk is that it gets people to at least pretend to give a crap about the subject. be honest, you wouldn't even know what the LHC was if you couldn't run around like a headless chicken saying "the sky is falling"

I just had to get Herman's opinion on this: http://tinyurl.com/5gxkky
 

hermanntrude

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Hehehe i had heard about that rap before but never actually heard it. I found it quite good. It had me tapping my foot and i also learned a few things.

I think old stevie hawkie might be right about the Higgs. I suspect the model's wrong, and mass doesn't need something quite so crazy to be explained.