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- fquednau, on 08/10/2008, -2/+94This end of the world crap is seriously annoying. Please stop it and enjoy the most sophisticated experiment so far in our lifetime.
- sleepyjjk, on 08/10/2008, -0/+31The end of the world through an intellectually pursuit sounds so much better than the end of the world through stupid wars.
But seriously, nothing bad is going to happen. This will help physicists reach new heights and find out more about nature at a subatomic scale. - GeorgeStone2, on 08/10/2008, -2/+20My theory is that the LHC is what starts the end and the begining of the universe.
Every 100 billion years we turn this ***** on and BOOM. Strangelets.
Causes the universe to implode in on its self.
The implosion is the singularity in the big bang theory.
So I'll see you in 100 million more years. I figure if the universe starts the same way each time, the same events happen.
Oh, you're wondering what I base my theory on? Absolutely nothing. It just sounds fun :) - radicaldementia, on 08/10/2008, -0/+14Yeah but if even if a black hole is created (which in itself is incredibly improbable and the model that predicts it is not widely accepted), because of Hawking radiation the black hole will almost immediately dissipate. This will happen so fast that it won't even have time to begin absorbing any matter. So the only way a micro black hole could mothball and destroy Earth is if Hawking radiation does not exist, however many other experiments have verified its existence.
So technically it is still possible, but there are so many other ways the earth could be destroyed (alien invasion, giant asteroid) that are far more probable. - Ecuno, on 08/10/2008, -0/+14Looks like the LHC's black hole traversed space and time and crashed the server.
- xaeon, on 08/10/2008, -0/+14There's also a non-zero chance that all the atoms in your body will suddenly disappear, but as far as I am aware, no one has ever literally vanished into thin air.
- ajb2015, on 08/10/2008, -0/+14go to mars and do this? and risk opening a gateway to hell? you must be mad.
- inactive, on 08/10/2008, -2/+12I know that fat people have more higgs than the rest of us!
- borez, on 08/10/2008, -3/+13The naive always try and dismiss what they can't comprehend, it's in our nature. If they collapse the universe it won't matter anyway. get over it.
- s0m31john, on 08/10/2008, -2/+12Billions of Euros? That's like infinite Dollars!
- stephenmeb, on 08/10/2008, -0/+9...and I'm still a little confused!
- JakeyG14, on 08/10/2008, -0/+9Batman does when you look away and are monologuing or talking to him with your back turned.
- dumaitbjimmy, on 08/10/2008, -0/+8ZOMG Y2K....oh wait.
- cfazzini, on 08/10/2008, -1/+7Oh awesome. It's going to be switch on on my birthday. Sweet!
- mixtogray, on 08/10/2008, -1/+7I blame beer, but I read that as "accelerate hardons".
- borez, on 08/10/2008, -0/+6This is starting to piss me off, they're are no men capable of philosophical debate on digg, only idiots with nothing to say but a downward click when it suits them,
Where's the ***** Confucius's or the Nietzsche's or the, or the who gives a *****, I'm out of here.
I've been contributing to the twilight zones idiot channel - Danoz, on 08/10/2008, -0/+6Won't happen. The earth is hit with cosmic rays that have much more energy than will be produced inside an accelerator. That and its theorized that it would evaporate before it could consume anything.
- Labourer, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6Selfish bastard. Why didnt you share this information before now. you would have saved countless billions that could have been spent on schools , hospitals or food for the starving masses.
- chaos7, on 08/10/2008, -2/+7txt only mirror
http://64.233.167.104/search?strip=1&q=cache:http% ... - dopplerdog, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5Why is it a silly thing to say? He didn't say they shouldn't perform experiments to find the boson - he just said he hopes they don't find it.
Personally, I think it would be more interesting if they don't find it, as it will give us a real WTF moment, because the SM works so well and requires it. We could be on the brink of something huge in that case.
If it IS found, well, it'll confirm SM, but it won't be a huge surprise, as people have been operating under the assumption that it exists for the last 30 years or so.
Nature, however, doesn't care what we think. Either way, things are exciting, as you say. - Danoz, on 08/10/2008, -3/+8The Higgs boson doesn't exist. The energy at which it is supposed to be observed has been revised everytime its not found. Its now supposed to be found at 114GeV, which the Tevatron Collider already exceeds in energies... and it hasn't been observed.
- molezooka, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5As anyone who watches LEXX knows, Earth is a Type 13 Planet. Type 13 planets typically destroy themselves while trying to determine the mass of a Higgs Boson! We are all DOOMED!!!
- EscalatorThief, on 08/10/2008, -2/+6Sorry if I'm mistaken, but I thought it was going to accelerate protons to the 14 TeV range. Tevatron already brings them to 1.96 TeV at collision, hence the name.
- eeron, on 08/10/2008, -0/+4I don't think the article says anywhere that there's "technically a chance" that the LHC will destroy Earth. It does whimsically say that the author wants black holes to be created... this is highly unlikely, but if it did, the black hole would immediately evaporate. There is no danger of strangelets either.
- LucasVB, on 08/10/2008, -0/+4Either way, a microbackhole will have a very, very tiny gravitational pull. It won't suddenly pull everything into it with huge force. Blackholes are objects with mass just like every other. They just happen to have all of it in a single dot.
- sockpuppets, on 08/10/2008, -0/+4or playing doom.
- Labourer, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3That would just be asking for it.
- raydeen, on 08/10/2008, -0/+3Gonna be Knee Deep in the Dead baby.
- The_Decryptor, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3Yes, ignore the physicists, listen to this biochemist!
- RetlawST, on 08/10/2008, -1/+4This just seems like a silly thing to say. It's science, and as somebody who isn't involved in the operation (aka you didn't spend the billions of dollars) I would think the outcome of this experiment is exciting either way. If the Higgs Boson is found, then we understand our universe even more and can start trying to explain other things. If the Higgs Boson isn't found, then the standard model doesn't work, and we get to explore alternatives. Either way, things are exciting!
- twystoffate, on 08/10/2008, -1/+4Not at first. They'll work up to the higher energy ranges as time passes, but the first few collisions will be relatively lower energy.
- dheaddy, on 08/10/2008, -2/+5higg me down
- apcfreak, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3Notice the two comments above his ...
- cpsutcliffe, on 08/10/2008, -1/+4To matter, someone would need to be around to care. If we're all wiped out of existence... Who cares?
- eeron, on 08/10/2008, -0/+3In that case, I'm choosing the Higgs diet
- sysop073, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3Well, trying to prove things we know are true would be somewhat more of a waste
- sysop073, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2I was under the impression people were kidding about that until I read these comments, but apparently people really think the LHC is going to destroy the world. Personally, at this point every day we manage to not destroy the world amazes me, so the LHC isn't a particularly large concern, at least it's in the hands of competent people
- EscalatorThief, on 08/10/2008, -0/+2Even if a micro black hole was created, as radicaldementia said, it would dissipate through Hawking radiation. As even more assurance, cosmic particles routinely interact with our ionosphere with much higher energies than will be generated at the LHC, and nothing bad has happened from those yet.
- HPMNick, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Well, actually, I doubt that a blackhole would last by any theory. The hole "punches a whole in space time" concept is provably false. Gravity forms from a concentration of mass, even through relativistic means. Adding more energy to it will slowly dissolve a black hole, as this will add energy to the matter forming the black hole. More energy means more entropy, and greater distances between particles. This means less gravity.
In scenarios where this isn't possible, it comes out as Hawking radiation. For a small black hole, it wouldn't take much to reverse.
IF it didn't collapse, it would be a scary last few minutes. The blackhole would only grow as fast as it could gain mass. People within a few miles of it would watch the whole thing unfold, but it would progress faster as time goes on. If you were half way across the world, you would probably start feeling the extra gravity, and then be crushed to death pretty quickly. - Danoz, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3For starters LHC isn't being built just for the Higgs boson. That and the LHC will conclusively (apparently) confirm or disprove its existence which is a major thing for particle physics.
- L0C0loco, on 08/10/2008, -3/+5I for one hope they do not find the Higgs. I hope it does not exist. There are other alternative theories that account for the existence of mass. One of them explains the Newtonian properties of inertia by creating mass only when an object is accelerated. This particular theory has a non-linear mass under very high accelerations. I can't recall the name of the theory, but basically it is an analog to the Casimir force/effect. Google or Yahoo! the following keywords: casimir effect higgs mass alternative - and read on.
- nblsavage, on 08/10/2008, -1/+3So have Rense's advertisers been hawking LHC survival kits?
- JimW311, on 08/10/2008, -0/+2I just have to comment, there is only 28 comments and stories like this NEVER get their server WTF pwned by digg. Sign of the population? Maybe...
- Twee, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2why don't you upgrade to firefox 3? are you on a work/school computer that locks you out?
- kitsua, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Do you worry about spontaneously combusting, or all of your organs instantly solidifying, or all the oxygen in your immediate area moving away and causing you to suffocate?
You may as well, it would be just as likely and equally as idiotic as the idea that the LHC is going to end the world somehow.
Please, before you expend any effort whatsoever worrying about something like that, do even the smallest amount of research to calm your unfounded fears and get into this exciting, thrilling time for physics and science. - Naieve, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2I'm on the Z Boson diet myself.
- nblsavage, on 08/11/2008, -0/+23leggedHorse=waste of oxygen
- pinchduck, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Is it turtles all the way down? In other words, what do you get when you break apart a fermion or a lepton, or a boson? They can't be composed of nothing, right? Or are they just made up of a quantum probability that has a high probability of existing (if that makes any sense).
- kitsua, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Well, I must say you've stumped me there - I honestly don't know how to answer that one, or even what exactly it is you just said.
- vimbuza, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Ouch, that hurt my brain.
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