End of the World 9/10/08

[Wyld45]

                       Just a few days from the "End-of-the World", then you have.......

                     
                      GROUND-HOG DAY!

[LLv34_Snefens]

its not really that funny... if they do it wrong, it can cause a nuke or a black hole...

-BigBOBCH

You really should change your stance. In that case, if your turn out to be wrong, there won't be anyone around to point fingers at you afterwards.

Seriously, in nature (or space) subatomic particles collide at near-light speed like this all the time, which has yet to cause the world to end. What will happen here is simply that they do it in a controlled manner, so they can measure the effects of the collision.

[moot]

I think about 6 months ago, a mass at least equal to the earth was spotted going somewhere near c.  Like 80-95% lightspeed...  There was no mention of anything odd going on in those observations.

[AKIron]

I think about 6 months ago, a mass at least equal to the earth was spotted going somewhere near c.  Like 80-95% lightspeed...  There was no mention of anything odd going on in those observations.

uh oh, where's lelu?

[LLv34_Snefens]

MUL-TI-PASS

[JAGED]

[moot]

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12051-jets-of-matter-clocked-at-nearlight-speed.html
200x the earth's worth going at .99c, but it's probably not anywhere as dense as the earth.  I wonder what chemistry's like in a collision between a relativistic particle and a regular one..

[Gh0stFT]

Beside the Micro black holes, there is greater (1000 and more) chance to produce Strangelets.
None where found so far at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) but it is believed that the
higher energy of the lead-lead collisions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), compared to the RHIC,
will produce more strange quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP).
Before i try to explain it with my poor english skill here a fast explanation from Wiki:

If the strange matter hypothesis is correct and a strangelet comes in contact with a lump of
ordinary matter such as Earth, it could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter.
This "ice-nine" disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its
immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more
stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter.
In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot,
large lump of strange matter.

good night from here

[JAGED]

[redman555]

You really should change your stance. In that case, if your turn out to be wrong, there won't be anyone around to point fingers at you afterwards.

Seriously, in nature (or space) subatomic particles collide at near-light speed like this all the time, which has yet to cause the world to end. What will happen here is simply that they do it in a controlled manner, so they can measure the effects of the collision.

maybee u should look it up buddy, i know wat im talking about


-BigBOBCH

[Motherland]

maybee u should look it up buddy, i know wat im talking about


-BigBOBCH

[Hangtime]

[DMBEAR]

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Bad Puzsy.

[Kurt]

If threads like this are the future of our culture, I say destroy the universe in the name of science...

Gads... Anything that makes it end will cheer me up.

[Fury]

I didn't realize it busted.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/20/hadron.collider.damage.ap/index.html

The end of the world is now delayed.

Experts have gone into the 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border to examine the damage that halted operations about 36 hours after its September 10 startup, said James Gillies, spokesman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

"It's too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out," Gillies told The Associated Press.

Is this another case of a $10 billion machine breaking down over a fifty-cent wire?