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Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« on: March 13, 2010, 12:11:20 AM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556621.stm

Looks like it will be back up in 2012.

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2010, 12:13:11 AM »
pfft! The end of the world is comming before that. In other words it will never come up.  :yawn:

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2010, 12:36:09 AM »
I'm come to the conclusion that it poses no danger at all... as long as the proton beams are shot in a sequence of small pulses. If it's done like that, it'll allow any formed micro blackholes to safely dissipate via hawking radiation before the next sequence of collisions occur.

However if the beam is continuous without pause, I feel the risk of a stable micro-blackhole forming statistically increases over time. This is because there's a very small chance that a group of micro black holes may form within immediate vinicinity of each other upon the collisions, absorbing each other and then grow instead of decaying as intended. But this assumes that the collisions produce a high volume of micro black-holes in an immediate vicinity of space and time. Also such a process would take a long period of time of 'feeding' to achieve, and any interruption of the beam would likely cause the micro black hole to dissipate beforehand. It's hard to say really, as my knowledge isn't great with this aspect of physics.
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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2010, 03:30:22 AM »
Don't cross the streams!

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2010, 07:07:22 PM »
I'm come to the conclusion that it poses no danger at all... as long as the proton beams are shot in a sequence of small pulses. If it's done like that, it'll allow any formed micro blackholes to safely dissipate via hawking radiation before the next sequence of collisions occur.

However if the beam is continuous without pause, I feel the risk of a stable micro-blackhole forming statistically increases over time. This is because there's a very small chance that a group of micro black holes may form within immediate vinicinity of each other upon the collisions, absorbing each other and then grow instead of decaying as intended. But this assumes that the collisions produce a high volume of micro black-holes in an immediate vicinity of space and time. Also such a process would take a long period of time of 'feeding' to achieve, and any interruption of the beam would likely cause the micro black hole to dissipate beforehand. It's hard to say really, as my knowledge isn't great with this aspect of physics.

On a lighter note, a new galaxy will be formed!  :-\
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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2010, 11:54:10 PM »
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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2010, 12:22:51 AM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556621.stm

Looks like it will be back up in 2012.
Around December sometime.  ;)

Oh fuck, the nutters are going to have a field day. I'd lol a lot more if they announce the main experiment being near the end of December 2012.  :laugh:

Anyway on another note, I bet that the Higgs Boson will not be found.
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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2010, 03:38:49 AM »
I'm come to the conclusion that it poses no danger at all... as long as the proton beams are shot in a sequence of small pulses. If it's done like that, it'll allow any formed micro blackholes to safely dissipate via hawking radiation before the next sequence of collisions occur.

However if the beam is continuous without pause, I feel the risk of a stable micro-blackhole forming statistically increases over time. This is because there's a very small chance that a group of micro black holes may form within immediate vinicinity of each other upon the collisions, absorbing each other and then grow instead of decaying as intended. But this assumes that the collisions produce a high volume of micro black-holes in an immediate vicinity of space and time. Also such a process would take a long period of time of 'feeding' to achieve, and any interruption of the beam would likely cause the micro black hole to dissipate beforehand. It's hard to say really, as my knowledge isn't great with this aspect of physics.

On a lighter note, a new galaxy will be formed!  :-\

If the Earth was consumed by a micro black-hole, the rest of the Solar system would be unaffected.  Only objects which approached the black-hole at a distance smaller than the radius of the Earth would experience a difference in the gravitational field between the black hole and the pre-black-hole Earth; the gravitational field of an Earth-mass black hole continues to increase all the way to the event horizon, but the gravitational field of the Earth is strongest at the surface of the Earth and decreases with depth, eventually reaching zero at the Earth's centre of mass.  At distances greater than one Earth-radius, the gravitational field is identical, and the Moon and artificial satellites would continue to orbit as before.
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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2010, 11:40:04 AM »
i wish we could shut down our large hardon collider for a while  :thumbup:

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2010, 02:25:10 PM »
I'm come to the conclusion that it poses no danger at all... as long as the proton beams are shot in a sequence of small pulses. If it's done like that, it'll allow any formed micro blackholes to safely dissipate via hawking radiation before the next sequence of collisions occur.

However if the beam is continuous without pause, I feel the risk of a stable micro-blackhole forming statistically increases over time. This is because there's a very small chance that a group of micro black holes may form within immediate vinicinity of each other upon the collisions, absorbing each other and then grow instead of decaying as intended. But this assumes that the collisions produce a high volume of micro black-holes in an immediate vicinity of space and time. Also such a process would take a long period of time of 'feeding' to achieve, and any interruption of the beam would likely cause the micro black hole to dissipate beforehand. It's hard to say really, as my knowledge isn't great with this aspect of physics.

They'd take a LOT more energy than what is available, so there won't be any black holes. I'd suggest you to worry about background radiation or something instead.
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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2010, 10:53:57 AM »
I didn't know we had so many nuclear physicists posting here.  ::) :laugh:

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2010, 11:04:36 AM »
As opposed to thick fuckheads like you?  :zoinks:

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2010, 11:06:58 AM »
As opposed to thick fuckheads like you?  :zoinks:

Still psychologically projecting I see.  :wanker:

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2010, 12:15:24 PM »
I didn't know we had so many nuclear physicists posting here.  ::) :laugh:

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Re: Large Hadron Collider is gonna shut down for a year
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2010, 12:16:28 PM »
As opposed to thick fuckheads like you?  :zoinks:

Still psychologically projecting I see.  :wanker:

You are dumber than her. :laugh: