end of the world?, the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC )

catsaremeanies Says:

Nov 4, 2009 - Actually, the hadron Collider Does make black holes! but they are too small to actually destroy anything, and only last for an extremely small amount of time.

boardrfolif3 Says:

Nov 4, 2009 - huh?

boardrfolif3 Says:

Nov 4, 2009 - I got lost after the hydrogen gas part lol

cu16855 Says:

Nov 4, 2009 - Got a gut feeling something is going to happen major between 2012 and 2020. Not psychic or claivoyant and crap happens. Did not go with the 1999 end of the world thing. Don't think end of world but something major maybe something else like pandemic and 8 years is like clairvoyant saying close to water? Hope it is not this hadron since scientists and theories do not seem more justified than religion. Always loved the bit were lightning set a tree alight and cavemen touched the fire. ouch!

36trooper Says:

Nov 4, 2009 - Actually It's not the mass that increases it's the momentum.

guitark3 Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - The LHC is now just a source of frustration the damn thing was supposed to go online in 07 now they have to replace a malfunctioning magnet or something. It'll probably never work and if it does the huge collision will result in nothing witch is wahat they are expecting anyway. huge waste of $

ibanezjuice Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - I disagree. Noone said this would happen overnight. particle accelerators have always been a great source of knowledge. who knows what we will learn...

H3FXStudios Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - Wait Is This Real?

gascat21 Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - Great video! Since hawking radiation is not proven directly (we have never observed a real blackhole is evaporating), it is still possible(0.0001%) that blackholes will eat the earth. However, it will take too long time and we are able to remove the blackholes (very small) to the space. (Considering this, the probability that we would destroy by LHC is be around 0.000001%..Moreover, higher energy collision occour millions of times in outer space..So, it is 0.00...0001% :P

Stonemansteve Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, raved that a particle accelerator experiment could set off a chain reaction that would destroy the world. Surprisingly, many sober-minded physicists have had the same thought. Normally their anxieties come up during private meetings, amidst much scribbling on the backs of used envelopes.

Stonemansteve Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - Recently the question went public when London's Sunday Times reported that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island, New York, might create a subatomic black hole that would slowly nibble away our planet.Alternately, it might create exotic bits of altered matter, called strangelets, that would obliterate whatever ordinary matter they met.

Stonemansteve Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - To assuage RHIC's jittery neighbors, the lab's director convened a panel that rejected both scenarios as pretty much impossible. Just for good measure, the panel also dismissed the possibility that RHIC would trigger a phase transition in the cosmic vacuum energy. These kinds of reassurances follow the tradition of the 1942 "LA-602" report, a once-classified document that explained why the detonation of the first atomic bomb almost surely would not set the atmosphere on fire.

Stonemansteve Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - The RHIC physicists did not, however, reject the fundamental possibility of the disasters. They argued that their machine isn't nearly powerful enough to make a black hole or destabilize the vacuum. Oh, well. We can always build a bigger accelerator.

cragster101 Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - all those hyrdogen protons give me a hadron.

Banzay27 Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - What a personally pleasing coincidence that the medium sized ring is 7km long, 7 is my favourite number. 27 is my favourite 2-digit number and it's the length of the large ring, the LHC itself. I like these coincidences. And I like this video, fav'd 5'd. If I go back to studying physics in university, CERN's LHC is something I'd love to work with.

rich17279 Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - They should get jobs and donate there wages to this

ChristopherTupper Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - thank you, finally somebody who knows something other than some stupid book written 2,000 year's ago.......lol, though i got to say it's useless arguing with these idiot's [robotsky8]......cause they'd have to go get an open mind before they can attempt to understand any of this.

ChristopherTupper Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - nice vid, good simple explanation of how the LHC work's

H1tThe5pace Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - hey i think i found something weird .. 12 of the 12 (12 + 12 = 24). Add 24 too 2012 and you get 2036 (Another year everyone is talking about). Reverse 2036 and you get 6302. and thats the name of an amazing group of stars in the universe that show us how stars begin and how gravity is controlled. just to let people know! anyway .. Good video of LHC - Helped me with my course work. Cheers

ClubDej Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - @H1tThe5pace it's 2038 everyone's talking about.

Ratitadecampo Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - waste of money and time...

Ratitadecampo Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - they want to create antimatter to make some sort of new super weapon

KaiserBrandon340 Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - lol, nice one

KaiserBrandon340 Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - "Wait Is This Real?" Fail

AshLeeLoo Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - Awesome. This is so perfect. I'm using it for my research paper! Great job. Keep posting updates about it in the sidebar.