They are scheduled to start up the Large Hadron Collider on wednesday, september 10th. Anyone worried that it is going to destroy the entire solar system? May as well live out your dreams before then.
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They are scheduled to start up the Large Hadron Collider on wednesday, september 10th. Anyone worried that it is going to destroy the entire solar system? May as well live out your dreams before then.
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Chances are they will not achieve anywhere near the energies needed... and they will ramp up energy over the next couple of years...
Even so- they are ramming tiny teensy itty bitty bits of matter together. A black hole composed of just a handful of protons ( which immediately cease to be protons) would not persist.
According to Hawking, such a black hole would literally evaporate before it could make it to the side wall of the detector.
For a black hole to remain stable, like the one at the center of our galaxy... it needs to be rather large.
Also- just to dispel any weird ideas... becoming a black hole does NOT affect mass., it affects density.
IF the sun could somehow collapse into a black hole Without the huge explosion.... the orbit of the earth and other planets would not be affected in the least. The exact same gravitational pull...
Yes, but you'd have eight glorious minutes of sunlight to prepare for the end. :biggrin1: This thread so needs a "what would you do with the last 8 minutes of your life" poll.We'd just have no sun and freeze to death within hours. Sorry if I don't feel consoled.
I hate it when that happens....IF the sun could somehow collapse into a black hole Without the huge explosion.... the orbit of the earth and other planets would not be affected in the least. The exact same gravitational pull...
Not to impugn the good doctor Hawking, but what if he's wrong? They're gambling with the lives of the entire planet. Granted the odds might be remote, but I'm not convinced the benefits outweigh the risks. I think the gnomes of CERN need a vastly better PR campaign.