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Master of Master Baiters Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 589

http://www.dbtechno.com/space/2008/09/06/many-worry-large-hadron-collider-may-create-black-hole/ Shocked

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:33 pm

Just so you know - someone has produced T-shirts with the slogan: PARTICLE PHYSICS GIVES ME A HADRON.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

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This could in turn, put mankind at risk.

One could only hope for such a fitting end...

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:48 pm

Oh yeah who cares - we will all die at once Smile

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:49 pm

How justly ironic.

Baiting Guru Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 2922

Just in case-it's been nice knowing you guys and gals. Very Happy

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:53 pm

It's like, we will ALL die... so we probably won't notice.. but I dont want to end up next to my lads.. ew

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:55 pm

^^^^

I reserved a few floors in Hell away from the lads. I even got the Devil to turn the heat down.

Anyone else have any luck on a logical explanation as to how this would cause a black hole?

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Wiki link

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:56 pm

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The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator that is going to send protons around a ring that is 17-miles below the ground.

I hope their air-conditioning system is adequate as the average thickness of continental crust is about 16 kilometres (10 miles) Laughing

Even with a modest geothermal gradient of 10 degrees C/km, a temperature of 270 degrees C above the ambient surface temperature would present something of a challenge to any known life-form.

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1043

I saw this pic on a different forum. I'm more worried about the head crabs than the black hole.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 589

^^^

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:26 am

If.. we'll never know, lights out for everything and everyone.
If not, imagine how much energy would be needed to create one, we'll have a new ocean called Swifra Rolling Eyes

They always taught me, if you don't know what you're doing, better don't do it, but now it's political and then it's okay Laughing

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:44 am

I have to agree with the critics.

When the smartest, most respected and accomplished heads in particle physics get together and spend years designing extremely complicated experiments which only a chosen few in the world can even hope to understand, it doesn't mean anything at all.

However when a few sensationalist journalists and woowoo internet bloggers who don't know crap about physics write about things which they don't understand, I put great stock in their credibility.

Yup, we're doomed.

A sub-atomic reaction with less energy than a spark from a statically charged hair of lint and which only lasts for a micro-second and can hardly be detected is going to kill us all.

Me scared. Shocked

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:39 am

<br>Being a sub-particle physicist is very much like making love with a beautiful woman.... Shocked

very few people get the chance to do it. They chuck vast amounts of money into it. Then they fiddle around with things like black holes that they don't understand fully, hoping to get a Big Bang, and the Earth moves at the end of it.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:24 am

To mark the occasion, I've set up a new baiting address. Higgs Boson.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:21 am

we're having a party on credit - if the world ends we don't pay. I also seem to have mislead Hayley about the spelling of the word 'Hadron'.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

I think its a plot to divert all the escaping biros ( and odd socks ).
They will fal out the black hole and the Swiss wil suddenly have a great pen business.
I suspect the odd socks will end up in my wash basket.

I am not con "cern" ed

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

God, I think my 4 YO could see through it Rolling Eyes

It's flowery hippy freaks that instill fear in some gullable people...

Although the court of human rights has actually done something useful... not believe this mad professor.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:23 am

Yikes! Armageddon outta here...

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:07 pm

I can't be doing with all of this end of the world stuff. My head still hurts from the Y2K party. I've been lying here in the recovery position ever since. Very Happy

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:24 pm

Well it has been nice knowing you all. Since KD believes this so do I!

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:03 pm

Mr Tambourine Man wrote:

... a new baiting address. Higgs Boson.

That should prove to have a very strong attraction on the lads, allowing you to build up a nucleus of baiting elements while making your modalites massive. Seeing that your persona, Higgs Boson, has yet eluded detection, I just hope the lads will be able to find your mails. Wink

If we live that long, which we won't the minute CERT is turned on. Little black hole, here we come.

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:11 am

I'm using the Hadron Collier as a baiting tool at the moment.

Ushas (my talking horse) writes to his Senegalese love lad as to why he can't come to the phone right now.

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Unfortunately the engineers who were supposed to be working on my voice synthesiser and telephone hookups are far too busy connecting the pipe to the Large Hadron Collider (linky) as we are hoping to syphon off some of the Higgs Bosons they will be generating in our upcoming genetic experiments. We think that they will have some mutagenic capabilities and we are all quite excited, especially the Griffin team who think this will give them the breakthrough they are after.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

^

I'm sure all will be ok once they've got the quirks or quarks sorted out.
C'mon who doesn't think they've already switched the Hadron Collider on to try it out, even if just to save embarrasssment in front of the world's press.
Perhaps we've already been sucked through and are living in an alternative universe.
If so I want to go back to the one where chocolate is non fattening

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:48 pm

Well, the fear of this thing is definately spreading, one of my new baits, a certain Phi!ip Carl0s just sent me:

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Why are you silent in this transaction. I am sleepless and restless here because you are not showing any atom of seriousness in this transaction since we started this deal.