http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moEzECvJDas
Some people are worrying about the world's next-generation particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to open for business next year at CERN's facility on the Franco-Swiss border. The LHC site says:
"According to some theoretical models, tiny black holes could be produced in collisions at the LHC. They would then very quickly decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates) which would be detected by experiments." But some scientists have pointed out that Hawking radiation may not exist as documented in the scientific papers Do black holes radiate? and On the Universality of the Hawking Effect.
Sir Martin Rees says:
"It is not inconceivable that physics could be dangerous too. Some experiments are designed to generate conditions more extreme than ever occur naturally. Nobody then knows exactly what will happen. Indeed, there would be no point in doing any experiments if their outcomes could be fully predicted in advance. Some theorists have conjectured that certain types of experiment could conceivably unleash a runaway process that destroyed not just us but Earth itself." Nick Bostrom says:
"There have been speculations that future high-energy particle accelerator experiments may cause a breakdown of a metastable vacuum state that our part of the cosmos might be in, converting it into a 'true' vacuum of lower energy density. This would result in an expanding bubble of total destruction that would sweep through the galaxy and beyond at the speed of light, tearing all matter apart as it proceeds."
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/28/hawaiian-man-files-lawsuit-against-the-large-hadron-collider-lhc/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html
Some people are worrying about the world's next-generation particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to open for business next year at CERN's facility on the Franco-Swiss border. The LHC site says:
"According to some theoretical models, tiny black holes could be produced in collisions at the LHC. They would then very quickly decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates) which would be detected by experiments." But some scientists have pointed out that Hawking radiation may not exist as documented in the scientific papers Do black holes radiate? and On the Universality of the Hawking Effect.
Sir Martin Rees says:
"It is not inconceivable that physics could be dangerous too. Some experiments are designed to generate conditions more extreme than ever occur naturally. Nobody then knows exactly what will happen. Indeed, there would be no point in doing any experiments if their outcomes could be fully predicted in advance. Some theorists have conjectured that certain types of experiment could conceivably unleash a runaway process that destroyed not just us but Earth itself." Nick Bostrom says:
"There have been speculations that future high-energy particle accelerator experiments may cause a breakdown of a metastable vacuum state that our part of the cosmos might be in, converting it into a 'true' vacuum of lower energy density. This would result in an expanding bubble of total destruction that would sweep through the galaxy and beyond at the speed of light, tearing all matter apart as it proceeds."
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/28/hawaiian-man-files-lawsuit-against-the-large-hadron-collider-lhc/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html
6 comments:
SPEAK ENGLISH PEOPLE! As Ellie said as Jim and Eva discussed black holes, "What he talkin' bout black holes?"
Pat,
Thank you for bringing to light what I think we were all afraid of...Troll Head must be stopped. If this doesn't lure him to the blog, then I don't know what will.
I just watched Professor Troll Head on the San Diego Local News, and he assured us that everything will be okay and we shouldn't "stop trying to live [our] daily lives". It was a fairly goofy interview, as it was on the most local of San Diego local news shows, and their set was like a desk and two chairs out on the street somewhere :). I asked Stevie to make a video that I can upload out of it so you may all enjoy.
PS awesome graphic, Pat!
I am anxiously awaiting that video!
More evidence found here!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60lko_stop-the-large-hadron-collider-lhc_tech
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