Will the Large Hadron Collider save the world, or destroy it?

mammasan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556999/

This is some pretty interesting shit they are doing over at CERN.

DriftingByTheStorm

i don't know, but when i posted about this several months ago, i got called a loon and a kook for suggesting that a stranglet may destroy earth because of this.

:cool:

mammasan

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

i don't know, but when i posted about this several months ago, i got called a loon and a kook for suggesting that a stranglet may destroy earth because of this.

:cool:

It could but I highly doubt that it will. I'm no expert in the field of physics but the article quotes experts stating that what they are attempting to do at CERN is done naturally on this planet everyday through cosmic rays.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

well has the damn thing gone off yet or not? i thought i was safe!

mammasan

MrSmith wrote:

well has the damn thing gone off yet or not? i thought i was safe!

The first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.

So we still have a little over a month before tiny black holes destroy the earth.

jeffbr

It is lunacy to fear this. It will not swallow us whole.

I think it will be very interesting to see what we can learn about matter and energy, perhaps a better understanding of the big bang, and who knows what else.

DriftingByTheStorm

mammasan wrote:

The first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008,

The day before September 11th?

:eek:

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

mammasan wrote:

The first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.

So we still have a little over a month before tiny black holes destroy the earth.

well damn. now i have to hide under my bed for another month.

mammasan

jeffbr wrote:

It is lunacy to fear this. It will not swallow us whole.

I think it will be very interesting to see what we can learn about matter and energy, perhaps a better understanding of the big bang, and who knows what else.

I'm shocked that none of our illustrious presidential candidates has mentioned this. They could easily use this to instill more fear into the American people. Forget the war on terror, let's start the war on science.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

mammasan wrote:

I'm shocked that none of our illustrious presidential candidates has mentioned this. They could easily use this to instill more fear into the American people. Forget the war on terror, let's start the war on science.

all in good time.

jeffbr

mammasan wrote:

I'm shocked that none of our illustrious presidential candidates has mentioned this. They could easily use this to instill more fear into the American people. Forget the war on terror, let's start the war on science.

Good call. There is a thread in AET about this and there are a couple of people who have called for us to "stop playing God". WTF??? So you are not off base thinking that religious folk are going to start playing on fear.

mammasan

jeffbr wrote:

Good call. There is a thread in AET about this and there are a couple of people who have called for us to "stop playing God". WTF??? So you are not off base thinking that religious folk are going to start playing on fear.

Well they have already started waging war on science, stem cell research, evolution and global climate change to name a few, so this is bound to be next.