wayneL
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Thankfully, not every paper is like The Sun over here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4670445.ece
Thankfully, not every paper is like The Sun over here:The Sun.... haha... that paper is just unspeakably embarrassing.
Maybe they should wait till 2012 to switch it on to prove the Mayan prophesy was correct.
Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 05/09/2008
Scientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, where particles will begin to circulate around its 17 mile circumference tunnel next week, will recreate energies not seen since the universe was very young, when particles smash together at near the speed of light.
Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat."
I bet these peeps believe in God/Allah/Whatever...
...or black holes?I bet these peeps believe in God/Allah/Whatever...
LOL!!!Was it really a big bang? Was it astronomical?
Things only go bang if the pressure can't get out, so allowing it to build up. I read of a kitchen wall being blown down in a big bang when a sealed container exploded after being overheated.
I can't imagine that the pressure could not easily escape in the vast space we know about. Therefore, I have decided there was never a big bang, or indeed, a loud thump or even a fizz.
Of course, thinking about it, there could have been a lot of little bangs, thumps...spread over billions of years. Yes, this is the one I'm going for.
NOT a big bang, but, trillions of little bangs over billions of years. That's it. Problems of space are now solved and the thead can therefore, NOW END.
How about micro black holes?...or black holes?
ROTFLMAO!!!Anyway, it is a known fact that there is a huge black hole in the nation's finances. That hasn't destroyed the world yet!
(Maybe it wants to "do us slowly".)
I guess the fact that I work at CERN must make me a VI. But I do feel that a Ph.D. in physics and several years of experience makes me somewhat more qualified to comment on this than most.
Basically the concern surrounding the LHC is totally out of proportion. The risk involved is absolutely miniscule. For the doomsday scenarios to be correct invokes physics which has barely gone beyond a theorist's wildest dream. We are far more likely to wake up tomorrow and find that house prices have returned to 1940s levels, William the Conquerer has mysteriously turned up in parliament and is now in charge of the country and that ET was in fact a real alien and Drew Barrymore is negotiating a first contact with the aforementioned alien's elder brother.
There are claims out there of all sorts of things but, quite frankly, the public is not even nearly well enough equipped to decide for themselves. If you really must concern yourself, how about considering the energy required to do the damage proposed? Do you think highly enough of science that we can actually harness this sort of power? If so, why do you then doubt it so?! Have you thought to consider the history of these fears? They are not unique to the LHC. Many of those who spout nonsense have done so before. Did the tevatron destroy the world? Did it destroy anything? Have you even heard of it?! Well the tevatron was the LHC simply SSDD.
Catch yourselves on guys. This sort of thing is simply beyond the understanding of the general population. An average person can no more pass learned judgement here than he can beat Tiger Woods at golf.
Since we are talking about a mini black hole being formed which will head for the centre
of the earth and will start sucking the entire planet into its cute little orifice, I think we
would be more reassured to hear that the risk is ...
ABSOLUTELY F*CKING ZERO ! !
"Miniscule" just doesn't do it for me, in these circumstances
I'd say the word miniscule in your quote is equal/similar to the cosmological constant.I thought this was a funny exchange on another forum:
LOL
I'd say the word miniscule in your quote is equal/similar to the cosmological constant.OMG its equal to 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 or there abouts
I'd say the word miniscule in your quote is equal/similar to the cosmological constant.OMG its equal to 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 or there abouts
Yes.So we should be worried then?
We are living in a Matrix type life IMO. It's extremely hard to break out of the routine and dogmatic expectations implanted in us through our nature and nurture. Hardly anyone really escapes it. We're all robots; waking up, going to work, working 9-5, going home, recreating, mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, watching some US sitcom, going to bed. Repeat, repeat, repeat. zzzzzzzzzYes.
Reason being, we may actually find, or this leads to the find, that we are actually living a "Matrix" type life... everything seems so... planned out.
noirua said:So many people have set their hearts on solving the problem of the Creation of the Universe with a "ONE BIG BANG THEORY". What a load of cobblers.
Quite obviously this took very many billions of years, AND YES, there were trillions of little bangs going off all over the place.
In terms of size these little bangs were indeed quite large, but but but, only small in UNIVERSE terms.
"No No No", I hear you say. However, get clever for once in your life.
hey this is a family shownoi said:AND YES, there were trillions of little bangs going off all over the place
Sorry, no where near enough zeros. It's I part in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion.Jayzuz! So basically more chance of destroying the earth than winning lotto!!
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