Poll: The Earth Destroyed by a Black Hole!?!
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Don't worry, I doubt they have any crystals they need him to push into a light, so we should be safe.tellmeimaninja said:
Considering the forces required to make and sustain a black hole, there is no way a particle accelerator can make one.
Its nice that these fellows are trying to dig out more stuff about the origins of the universe but I really wish that all that money was used for something more practical, so that we can get a tax cut.
Its nice that these fellows are trying to dig out more stuff about the origins of the universe but I really wish that all that money was used for something more practical, so that we can get a tax cut.
1) No. It's factually impossible for the LHC to create theoretical black holes that would destroy the earth. The energy levels created in the LHC are much lower than the energy levels of cosmic ray particles entering our atmosphere. Cosmic rays have been entering our atmosphere for as long as we've had an atmosphere (around 3.8 billion years ago) and the Earth has survived just fine.
2) Promulgation of this incorrect belief about the LHC is, in fact, potentially deadly [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7609631.stm].
2) Promulgation of this incorrect belief about the LHC is, in fact, potentially deadly [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7609631.stm].
I say yes, it might make a black hole or cause a catastrophic event, but we're gonna do it anyway. Hell they probably have already, and just didn't tell us or simply WON'T tell us until it's already done. That's what they did with the atom bomb, they thought it was going to start an infinite chain reaction and consume the planet, BUT THEY DID IT ANYWAYS.
Life's too short to care if you die tomorrow. Live for today and prepare for tomorrow if it comes. As explained we probably can't do it. I'm not overly concerned.
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet ( I was too lazy to read all of the posts so far) but I'm pretty sure that Earth would be long gone, or at the very least a lifeless rock, by the time the sun turns into a black hole, seeing as a star has to go supernova or collapse from being a red giant before becoming a black hole. The supernova would most likely kill every living thing on the planet and when the sun swells to a red giant it will engulf Earth (or at least I think it will).
Either way, I will, most likely, be long dead when either event occurs so I really don't care.
Either way, I will, most likely, be long dead when either event occurs so I really don't care.
Honestly, it comes down to the fact that who do I trust more?
Based on what the people who believe in the black hole scenario, they just seem like people that are hung up on that fact, not reading anymore into it.
And the physicists and other professionals know what they're doing. Have years of work into this. Everyone says that any kind of small black hole would last picoseconds, if that.
And I trust people when it comes to their life's work.
As for the results. Yes, it seems worthy for the understanding of the universe.
Based on what the people who believe in the black hole scenario, they just seem like people that are hung up on that fact, not reading anymore into it.
And the physicists and other professionals know what they're doing. Have years of work into this. Everyone says that any kind of small black hole would last picoseconds, if that.
And I trust people when it comes to their life's work.
As for the results. Yes, it seems worthy for the understanding of the universe.
Any blacks holes created by the Large Hadron Collider would theoretically evaporate. Of course, no one has observed a black hole evaporating, which is where the scientific skepticism about creating a black hole comes from. However, any black holes created would be of such a small size that I doubt it would beat the expanding sun in a race to destroy the planet.