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Originally posted by UmCrackThe micro black holes that might be created, there are many scientists hoping they will as they may enable us to detect such theorised particles as the higgs boson, plus allow us to 'see' a black hole for the first time and do experiments on them, will have a mass of the order of a few atoms and will be considerably smaller than an atom, as such they would find it unbelievably hard to actually eat an atom, as atoms are remarkably hard to shrink (otherwise the earth let alone the sun would have collapsed under it’s own weight by now) and on top of that the black hole would be emitting copious amounts of radiation which would push away any surrounding matter and reduce it's mass, so to grow it would have to somehow eat more matter than it was spitting out, add to this the fact that it will almost certainly be highly charged, in a strong magnetic field, and moving, and a moving charge emits radiation and follows a curved trajectory in a magnetic field, thus it will spiral round and round in ever decreasing circles as it looses momentum emitting copious amounts of radiation until with a final burst of radiation, it evaporates (all in one tiny, tiny, tiny, fraction of a second)
Within a few months the world's biggest particle accelerator will be switched on for the first time.
Length - 27km
Cost - US$4,000,000,000
Detector weight - 7,000 tons
This will smash protons together at 99.999999% the speed of light, potentially creating a black hole that will run out of control and engulf the world.
It's an experiment. We do exp ...[text shortened]... ver new things or because we are unsure about something.
Did you agree to this experiment ?
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Originally posted by sonhouseOr better, shoot stuff past it (dropping some in on the way past) in a gravity slingshot manoeuvre and use the gained KE from the stuff that comes back out as your power source, and there you go, combined power and waste disposal system.
Well first off, its not "an experiment", its an ongoing scientific research station and like the man says, anything like a black hole wouldn't last long enough to even be noticed, no warping of space and turning the LHC inside out for instance, any such warpage of space would be on such a small scale as to effect only atoms within a few atomic radii at best energy source. That could be done, oh, sometime in the next two thousand years or so..,...
EDIT: just thinking about the original post though, the suggested scenario isn't really what might call a 'disaster in the world'. It would be the end of the world; 'worst disaster in the world' doesn't really cover it.
Originally posted by UmCrackThat sounds pretty bad. Until you realise that Tommy Smith could walk away from Derby County on a free transfer if he doesn't sign a new contract in the next couple of months.
potentially creating a black hole that will run out of control and engulf the world.
Jeez, get some perspective.
Originally posted by XanthosNZThat's it, X!!! I believe you've discovered the key to open Heaven's gates! Well, my Heaven anyway...
In fact your deliveries would be free as after we were swallowed into the black hole you would be infinitely close to the amazon.com distribution centre.
When men rode horses, they believed if you went 60 mph, the human body couldn’t stand the shock. Some thought the atomic bomb would set off a chain reaction that’d blow up the world. When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, some were thinking when he hit that speed, it would be like hitting a brick wall. I agree…let ‘er rip. BTW what’s the purpose of this thing? What kind of new weapon can we make out of it?