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Mini black holes grow exponentially rather than linearly inside the earth: “mini quasar principle.“ Hence the time needed by a resident mini black hole to eat the earth is maximally shortened – perhaps down to “50 months.“ This contrasts with the “50 million years“ obtained assuming linear growth by BBC-Horizon and CERN’s analogous “5 billion years.“
One lap through the 17 mile tunnel will take a proton only 90 micro-seconds, meaning that a beam that is active for 10 hours will travel the distance of about 6.2 billion miles, which is about twice the distance between Earth and Neptune.
I have a few thoughts for the people who think that if anyone has any doubts as to wherther or not this thing should be turned on are absoulutely ignorant and should ask the ringmaster at the circus if he could give them their money back for their crummy "college diploma".
Remember when scientist's were working on the "Trinity" project?...yes wasn't that the project that was focused on building and then testing an atom bomb?....and none of these "experts" and "juicy brainiacs" were 100% sure that the explosion would not take off out of control and engulf the world in a chain reaction of death. I could be wrong, but I think I remember something along those lines.
And how about the brain trust over at good ole "Cherynoble" (spelling?)...I believe that incident had a lot to do with science and "perfectly safe", highly dangerous material and equipment.
And one more thing, I think it is very interesting that if the mini black holes do form, then what about the theorie of blackholes being a portal to different dimensions or alternate universes at the singularity...maybe mini portals could be opened up and a fraction of a second is more than enough time for these alternate dimesional beings or materials to come to our side and cause changes.
Originally posted by Quantum_Squirrel
you people are silly if u actually read when the cern collider will be fully operational its next year sometime.
it is being booted up in stages until then yet i see a million threads predicting doom Now .
this is just not true!!!!!
i am hoping its the start of time travel.
Originally posted by kcfusion
I have to laugh when I read about this CERN business. If they know nothing can possibly go wrong, that means they already know the answer to their experiment, so why bother do the experiment at all? I mean why spend 4.4 billion on something they "know" the answer to. The only reason to do that, would be if they believe that they are more than likely right but hey only one way to find out.
Now that is not a reassuring thought.
Oh and the 10th is my birthday,
[edit on 31-8-2008 by kcfusion]
4 years. Hmm interesting. I thought that would be a lot faster a thing of minutes. 2008 + 4years = 2012... scary..
Originally posted by truthseekerpeacemaker
i just want know where all the important people are going to be when this thing in turned on like the presidents/ leaders of these countries there location should tell you something if they cannot be located in public or are aboard the space station or in underground bunkers on that date then that should tell you something.
1.does anyone know where mr. bush and chenny are going to be on that day?
2. they might push it back a day to sept 11th they will say they ned one more day just make sure everything was perfect then you should really sh*t yourself
"LHC Safety Study Group, a group of independent scientists, performed a safety analysis of the LHC and concluded in a report published in 2003 that there is "no basis for any conceivable threat"
Originally posted by space cadet
reply to post by ziggy1706
Ziggy I think you are talking about the Philladelphia Project. Sorry for the one liner folks.
Originally posted by Cthulwho
I'm imagining that all the black holes in the universe are the remnants of past civilizations that built their own large atom smashers.
Originally posted by C.C.Benjamin
I work for the STFC, who are funding this, and I've raised these concerns to have it explained to me fully.
It boils down to the fact that they are not using enough energy to initiate a sustainable black hole.
As it will be done in a vacuum the hole will simply exist for a fraction of a second, then end.
So relax.
Originally posted by C.C.Benjamin
Originally posted by Cthulwho
I'm imagining that all the black holes in the universe are the remnants of past civilizations that built their own large atom smashers.
I said much the same thing to my flatmate yesterday, on how amusing it would be as, due to the amount of time the universe has existed for, we should have encountered plenty of extraterrestrial life by now.
It could be that every time a civilization reaches a point like this, they end up performing this experiment and destroying themselves.
It makes a good premise for a sci-fi novel, if you ask me!