Hadron Collider and Black Holes
I seriously doubt that everyone expected the world to be sucked into a black hole on Sept 10th; it was pretty clear that the tale of the big bad black hole was all media hype and doomsaying from the start, but the Hadron Collider debate shuoldnt be dropped so easily simply because we all didnt become infinitely small and infinitely dense. The point is that not even the guys who built this **** thing have a clue what theyre doing, and are simply determined to probe the fabric of space-time whether it likes to be probed or not.
The Black Hole that was supposed to destroy the word at 8:30 GMT didnt happen, probably because that the idea of man being able to create one in the first place is th stupidest thing since the toffee spear was invented. The first hurdle to fall is all this nonsense about 'small' black holes. Has anyone ever taken a yard stick and gone and measured one of these things? Given that they alter the very fabric of space around them, measuring their 'size' defies the laws of physics as we know them. And then there is the simple fact of how theyre created; if you linked all the power plants, wind farms and solar collectors on the PLANET and plugged them into this collider you still wouldnt get a black hole. Heres why; it takes a body with a mass around 100 times that of our sun to create a black hole upon implosion. The number hasnt been invented yet that can calculate that amount of energy.
However, this thing is still incredibly dangerous. The entire point of the thing it to accelerate particles to an appreciable fraction of lightspeed and then smash them into each other, breaking them apart in a cascade chain reaction. Cracking atoms releases radiation. Although its doubtful that the quantity released is going to be dangerous, take into account that theyre creating particles that have never been seen before. It is logical to assume thet theyre also releasing kinds of radiation that have never been seen before either.
To anyone who has studied physics these effects are incredibly similar to another little invention of mankind, aka, the Atom Bomb.
There is another thing too. The LHC is specifically designed to fill in the missing links that we have in elementry particle physics, and was designed to re-create (on a smaller scale) the cosmic collisions of energies that happen in deep space, subspace, the insides of stars and even in alternate dimentions; i.e things that were never meant to happen on earth.
I'm no genius when it comes to the sub-atomic wonders of the universe but perhaps maybe this is not so wise?
the whole 'man was too primitive to do it' argument always makes me totally crazy.....)
Originally Posted by velveeta
I think my teacher explained it to us like that, "The titanic would be compressed to the size of a PC tower."
) but also because there is NO WAY the mass required would be generated. Not unless they managed to accelerate the atoms (protons? I forget) up to essentially light speed. About when E=MC^2 kicks in and turns its energy into mass or whatever. 
