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modlife
09/10/08, 08:13 AM
What will happen?

Best scenario:

Smashing 2 particles together, fusion, releases so much energy that a controlled version of this phenomenoa may help the energy problem in the world and reduce pollution (fusion power would not pollute at all).

The experiment could begin to unlock secrets at the quantum level. Eventually we might even be able to move through solid objects.

If the energy or mass created from the collisions is large enough, time could be distorted so much that it folds back on itself - creating a wormhole, or time tunnel, between the present and the future... possibilities of time travel, and moving through space very quickly.


Worst scenario:

Some say cosmic-ray collisions in the atmosphere are creating tiny black holes or strangelets all the time.

Maybe those zip by too fast to cause any trouble. In the LHC, some say the bad stuff could hang around long enough to be captured by Earth’s gravity and set off a catastrophe.


Otto Rossler: thinks it will create a quasar inside the planet.

"Nothing will happen for at least 4 years. Then someone will spot a light ray coming out of the Indian Ocean. A few weeks later we will see another stream of particles coming out of the soil on the other side of the planet... the weather will change completely, and there will be a Biblical Armageddon."

"…after 50 months the earth to a centimeter would have shrunk. It would be nothing more there, not only no more life, there but also the earth would be… a small black hole."


They plan to start smashing these particles together very soon. In 50 months time it will be very close to Dec 21, 2012.

:-|

boykosaurus
09/10/08, 08:42 AM
Let's just get it over with now in order to shut up the 2012 crowd.

saysmydoctor
09/10/08, 09:08 AM
They have done this before why is everyone freaking out.

jagermeister
09/10/08, 09:12 AM
They have done this before why is everyone freaking out.

They haven't done it, at least not on this scale. This thing has been being worked on since the 1980s and they're finally able to use it.

Adeniz19
09/10/08, 09:20 AM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/adeniz19/20406_formatted_1175201275977.gif

saysmydoctor
09/10/08, 09:21 AM
They haven't done it, at least not on this scale. This thing has been being worked on since the 1980s and they're finally able to use it.
They have done it before, with, yes, smaller colliders and accelerators.

GiggsOho
09/10/08, 09:28 AM
I cant believe there is more than one thread on this site dedicated to this.

I'll say it again -- McCain/Palin have a better chance of ending the world than this thing does.

jagermeister
09/10/08, 09:36 AM
They have done it before, with, yes, smaller colliders and accelerators.

Well then there is your answer as to why everyone is freaking out about this time.

Bigger = scarier. Duh.

saysmydoctor
09/10/08, 09:39 AM
Well then there is your answer as to why everyone is freaking out about this time.

Bigger = scarier. Duh.
That's a shitty answer. I guess everyone fears skyscrapers.

jagermeister
09/10/08, 09:40 AM
That's a shitty answer. I guess everyone fears skyscrapers.

Skyscrapers don't have the potential to create black holes or destroy the entire universe and according to some people, this thing does.

saysmydoctor
09/10/08, 09:43 AM
Skyscrapers don't have the potential to create black holes or destroy the entire universe and according to some people, this thing does.
That wasn't your argument just a second ago. It was that it was 'bigger.'

Please stick to one argument.

jagermeister
09/10/08, 09:45 AM
That wasn't your argument just a second ago. It was that it was 'bigger.'

Please stick to one argument.

Yeah, they're doing it on a bigger scale which some say could be the cause of black holes, time warps or whatever they call it.

Come on and read between the lines, man...you're smarter than that.

Adeniz19
09/10/08, 09:45 AM
That's a shitty answer. I guess everyone fears skyscrapers.horrible comparison. it's like saying detonating a hand grenade is the same as a warhead.

now i really don't think anything is going to happen but i can see why people would be afraid even with the smallest of probabilities that something bad might actually happen.

boykosaurus
09/10/08, 10:54 AM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/adeniz19/20406_formatted_1175201275977.gif

I lol'd really hard.

SoggY ThE OnE
09/10/08, 10:57 AM
Meh, "the end of the world in 2012" thing really doesn't phase me. The end of the world has to come some time right?

x togepi x
09/10/08, 11:54 AM
there are so many scenarios for how "the world will end" that are all kind of plausible that it's ridiculous to even worry about shit that's less likely than me winning the lottery ten times in a row, like this supercollider is.

ps

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedt heworldyet.com/

saysmydoctor
09/10/08, 12:51 PM
Awesome website.

IXI CHEWIE IXI
09/10/08, 07:06 PM
Okay seriously this thing will not create a black hole.
wanna know how i know?
Stephen Hawkings said so

TK
09/10/08, 08:11 PM
Didn't the US attempt this some 30 years ago?

benjammun
09/10/08, 09:42 PM
Stupid people are stupid.

roguemerica
09/10/08, 10:11 PM
Yep all we need now is a longer lasting self-sustaining blackhole within that CERN accelerator.

This is a great moment for proof to be found in and the application of the greatest UNIFYING THEORY that merges "THEORY OF RELATIVITY" with "THEORY OF REVELATIONS"

Jason Tate
09/10/08, 10:11 PM
Nothing is more stupid than predicting the end of the world.
Tomorrow.

jagermeister
09/11/08, 10:18 AM
lol

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

sorry if repost!

anamericangod
09/11/08, 10:22 AM
Modlife is obviously a master of the search function.

SomedayTheFire
09/11/08, 10:24 AM
Otto Rossler is an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about. He said the same thing about the particle collider that has been functional in Long Island for the last nine years.

Of Machines
09/11/08, 11:32 AM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/adeniz19/20406_formatted_1175201275977.gif


hahahaha I love this!! I wonder how steven hawking feels about this