Black Hole Gobbles Up The Earth?

[DeadHamster]

I dont know if anybody else has heard about this, but I guess we might have some black holes in sweden if things don't turn out so hot

Asking A Judge to Save the World


Opinions on this?

Personally I say we go ahead with it, it's happened before. Somebody's job on the Manhattan Project [Developing of the Atomic Bomb] was to calculate if when the bomb went off whether or not our Atmosphere would catch on fire.

[Xero]

Black holes scare me.

[metkillerjoe]

"Sir, we cannot prove Hawking Radiation."

"Oh shit."

This proves my point exactly.

Also, another thing related to math but not necessarily relevant is this.



I think it is absolutely ridiculous that they are worried that the one thing that MIGHT be a by product of the LHC, which is damned SMALL, and under the theory of Hawking Radiation won't last a fraction of a fraction of a second, will engulf the entire planet. What's even more ridiculous is that are suing NOW 3 months before Estimated time of completion...

[uralllame]

I've been there!

It's in Switzerland by the way, not Sweden.

[shadowkhas]

I dont know if anybody else has heard about this, but I guess we might have some black holes in sweden if things don't turn out so hot

Yes. Sweden.
I think it's pathetic that they're suing over it. Oh noes, our world might be destroyed if a theory is wrong!11! Who cares? It'll be, for one, pretty damn cool. Now we'd know what happens in a black hole. Also, the war in Iraq would be over, and we wouldn't need to worry about the legalization of Marijuana! So much simpler.

I highly doubt anything catastrophic will happen...but if it does, hey, that's science. Now none of us will make THAT mistake.

[[cc]z@nd!]

from what i've read, the odds are nearly beyond astronomical that a black hole will be formed, and even then it will evaporate because of hawking radiation. the laws of quantum physics that would allow the miniature black holes to form would also make them disappear. although, it would be very interesting to see what sort of results they get when a black hole exists for barely a fraction of a nano-second in time.

[metkillerjoe]

from what i've read, the odds are nearly beyond astronomical that a black hole will be formed, and even then it will evaporate because of hawking radiation. the laws of quantum physics that would allow the miniature black holes to form would also make them disappear. although, it would be very interesting to see what sort of results they get when a black hole exists for barely a fraction of a nano-second in time.

I'd love to see them do some research on them even for that nano-second time. We hardly know anything about them.

God, one day, my children will be laughing at me, "Daddy, are you kidding? You've never sawd a black hole before you were 25?"

[[cc]z@nd!]

but then, you can break out a VCR and amaze them with your tracker wheel skillz. or maybe reminisce about floppies, or dial-up, or gasoline.

[0m3g4Muff1n987]

VCR's probably wouldn't be able to connect to next-gen TV's by then. They'd probably have another standard or something, kind of like HDMI.

[TomClancey]

You mean DisplayPort?

[0m3g4Muff1n987]

No, I mean, by then there'll be tons of new technology, probably bringing new standards for connecting your 1600p Blu-ray player to your 60" TV, and possibly no composite connectors for VCRs.

[Aumaan Anubis]

This proves my point exactly.

That is the best.

EVER.

[Andrew_b]

Meh...I can imagine it now. "Lets start it up" They start it. It makes a loud noise with huge explosions. The lights flicker. The building shakes. All hell is let loose...Until they press the big red "STOP" button.

^^ lol.

[[cc]z@nd!]

lol.

but it would be more impressive to see time slowly slow down to a stop as everything around you starts getting sucked down to the core and goes all spaghetti on you.

[kibito87]

For some strange reason I want to see what Tural has to say about this.

[TomClancey]

No, I mean, by then there'll be tons of new technology, probably bringing new standards for connecting your 1600p Blu-ray player to your 60" TV, and possibly no composite connectors for VCRs.

I understood your point, I was just saying, DisplayPort is new, where as HDMI is not. Also, the next HD resolution is 2160p.

[GametagAeonFlux]

The Earth doesn't possess enough gravity to effect the acceleration process. You'd need to do it on a planet with Neptune gravity or better in order to even effect the collision to form strangelets (or a mini black hole like event). The fact that in a strangelet event they only survive about 10^-10 to 10^-23 seconds, again due to the Earth's relatively small gravity. Thinking like that is why everyone seems to be worried with "what can happen" and not worried about "what is happening right now". If there is one created it'll be so small and so insignificant that it'd either collapse under it's own pressures or burst due to the lack of matter to fuel it.

[UPS]

This could be fun. What's more intimidating than a black hole floating over your shoulder?
Yes, I am joke-ing.

[MarsMartianMan]

I sure hope the black hole isn't big enough to swallow up Mars, or stays around long enough for Mars to get close.

[G.I.R.]

in b4/during large hardon collider