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originally posted by: chelsealad
Could you please elaborate or inclose a link for me to read up on
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to restart for physics early in 2015 after two years of maintenance and upgrading. The collision energy at restart will be 13 TeV
1 TeV is about the energy of motion of a flying mosquito.
originally posted by: Gothmog
a reply to: Aleister
Or , if you are extremely close and have braces or a metal belt buckle. That would be just too gross to imagine.
originally posted by: chelsealad
I came across this on my Facebook News Feed.
Now, I am probally at a pre-school level of understanding when it comes to this level of science, and the reason for this thread is for you guys to help me understand if there could possibly be a link and would it be worth a lot of my time to get to understand more.
There has to be more to the Collider experiments than what we are lead to believe....or maybe not?
link
originally posted by: Aleister
People fear this machine way out of proportion to its danger, which is none, unless it falls on your foot.
A blinding flash visible for 200 miles lit up the morning sky. A mushroom cloud reached 40,000 feet, blowing out windows of civilian homes up to 100 miles away. When the cloud returned to earth it created a half-mile wide crater metamorphosing sand into glass. A bogus cover-up story was quickly released, explaining that a huge ammunition dump had just exploded in the desert.
Strangelets are small fragments of strange matter—a hypothetical form of quark matter—that contain roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks and that are more stable than ordinary nuclei (strangelets would range in size from a few femtometers to a few meters across).[3] If strangelets can actually exist, and if they were produced at the LHC, they could conceivably initiate a runaway fusion process in which all the nuclei in the planet would be converted to strange matter, similar to a strange star.[3]
On 10 August 2008, Rainer Plaga, a German astrophysicist, posted a research paper on the arXiv Web archive concluding that LHC safety studies have not definitely ruled out the potential catastrophic threat from microscopic black holes, including the possible danger from Hawking radiation emitted by black holes
Otto Rössler, a German chemistry professor at the University of Tübingen, argues that micro black holes created in the LHC could grow exponentially