Something interesting I stumbled across tonight...

[Thor06]

I dont know how many of you are geeky enough to give two shits about this, but I thought it was interesting. It all started with me putting off homework and looking at "motivational" images. I find this one:



So now I get curious as to what a "Hadron" is. Out comes the wikipedia. That pretty much set off a good 30-40 minute wikipedia session which ended in me thinking to myself, "Oh fuck."

Check this shit out. Go down to "Saftey Concerns" and check that out. Goofy huh? Though I am not worried about it, I am definately going to do things I might not have otherwise done just incase. Wouldnt you agree that the world potentially turning into a black hole is a perfect reason to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on the Talon this summer? Come to think of it, in fall 2006 when I was taking Physics 1 here at the U, my prof went to Europe for a couple weeks to be active in the lowering of one of the last pieces of a particle accelerator he had contributed to. Unless theres just shit tons of particle accelerators being finished in Europe all the time, I bet he did something for it. I'm going to email him about it, I'll post up later.

If any of you found the above article interesting and have more time to kill, here is some other topics you might want to wikipedia:

Elementary Particle
List of particles
Antimatter
Strangelet
Black Hole

And click on basically any link in any of those articles.

[Killa]

I had shit load other thing for family and kids in life then worried about this shit " word from killa alway mean ( no offensive ), but that wat I think " thor help me finish these bud light .

[gthompson97]

I'm wayyy to drunk to read the article, but is that the new worlds largest "particle accelerator" that's supposed to be large enough to create a black hole, which has never been done before by the human race? If my physics memory serves me right, it's located somewhere in the asian continent and is the biggest physics advancement since the creation of the Earth. If that's what it is, that things is fuckin huge!!!

[Killa]

Originally Posted by gthompson97

I'm wayyy to drunk to read the article, but is that the new worlds largest "particle accelerator" that's supposed to be large enough to create a black hole, which has never been done before by the human race? If my physics memory serves me right, it's located somewhere in the asian continent and is the biggest physics advancement since the creation of the Earth. If that's what it is, that things is fuckin huge!!!

shit sound like not drunk to me , I still have 5 more bud light to go thru before heading to bed 1:50am here.

[steviek]

I'd Drive it

[clipsekid99]

Ya, this has been some old news..... In a thread I made a WHILE ago, I posted something about a "person" named 'John Titor", which I can't find at the moment, but you can google it if interested. According to him, this shit will lead to the invention of time travel.......

http://www.johntitor.com/ if you want an interesting read, whether it be fictional or non fictional.

EDIT: The original site seems to be down, so http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

[david-b]

I'm confused. Cliffnotes?

[Thor06]

Ha ha ha, cliff notes are hard for this one. In short, theres a big fucking particle accelerator in Switzerland/France. Some people think when the particles it accelerates collide they could produce micro black holes which may accumulate and turn into something dangerous (like a normal black hole) or it might create a theoretical mass called a strangelet. Ever heard of the "ice nine" scenario? It was a fiction book in which someone discovered a new ice crystal structure that is more stable than the normal one and that froze at somehing like 75 degrees F. If that crystal structure were to be put into a body of water, say the ocean, it would seed the rest of the ocean to become that new crystal structure and basically thw whole world would be frozen over. Well, this strangelet situation is the same thing, the strangelets are more stable so introducing it to normal matter would convert the normal matter to this stranglet business. Either would mean an immediate end to the Earth.

In the super short version, we're all fucked if the theorized bad things do happen.

[david-b]

So this thing makes these strangelets that no one knows what they do. Sounds like it's never been used?

If these unknown things get introduced to the normal matter, the whole world, theoretically, would turn into a black hole?

[Thor06]

No, it could make strangelets which would essentially turn earth and everything on it into an amorphus blob of elementary particles (the things that make up protons, electrons, and neutrons). No, it hasnt been used... its supposed to be done this month, the first proton beams "injected" in June, and the first collisions happening two months later (mid August).

It could also create micro black holes, which are normally not a big deal. Sounds like some people are worried about them collecting or not dissipating as they should and potentially turning into a Earth swallowing black hole.

Peep the link yo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC#Safety_concerns

[david-b]

Ok so I read as much as I could. Sounds weird. That's the same thing that Fermilab over does to some extent. I've been there a couple times and never understood what they're doing.

So basically, this isn't even to try to make power or do anything except prove some theories and find out why some things are they way they are? Just seems like a really weird project to me. Kinda interesting too.

[clipsekid99]

I always get interested in this type of stuff, and I'd love to learn as much as I could on it, but I could never take a college type class on it. This stuff is way too crazy.

[Blackcrow64]

LMFAO!!!!!!

Dude I laughed so hard at that poster. That is so funny... May 2008, we're all going to fucking die.

I didn't have time to read the article and everything, but that thing looks scary.