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P.I.D. Radio 6/22/08: What You Don’t Read in the Papers — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:21:43 +0000

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By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:44:29 +0000

Accelerator creates black hole. Earth to perish in 3 days, Women, minorities and poor hardest hit.

By: runasim

runasim — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:34:40 +0000

Somehow, I felt better before i knew there were fears to assuage.

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:25:42 +0000

kathyedits, good point. I don't think anyone knows the answer, but I picture it like going down a drain hole. A black drain hole. I guess I watch too much scifi. If we were eaten up I think it would happen too quickly for us to actually see anything coming.

By: kathyedits

kathyedits — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:46:58 +0000

A stable black hole on Earth’s surface would, according to some of those objecting, consume the entire planet in a matter of days and eventually eat the solar system.

Okay, no one here has asked what to me is the obvious question: What would it look like or feel like to watch the world being "eaten up" by a black hole (if it took a few days), and what would it feel like when the black hole reached us and started eating US up? Would it be like an explosion? An earthquake? A black cloud coming closer and closer and then .... nothingness?

I simply cannot believe I am the only person who has these questions. But nobody else asks them.

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:28:32 +0000

“Current theory says that black holes do in fact allow for some particles to escape the event horizon.” OK… when you've perfected the art of escaping from the event horizon of a black hole, please send a memo with instructions (or would it be the escape route?) to everyone on the planet. Though I'm not sure what there would be left to stay at.

“That would mean that it just might stay contained in the magnetic field of the accelerator for its lifetime.” Ok…. do we really want to find out the hard way that a black hole really won't stay contained in the magnetic field?

Besides, there's lots of power needed to keep these things up and running… what if the sun goes behind a cloud? (I really wasn't being flip- my real question being, what happens if there's not a steady power source and there are fluctuations in the energy?

One last comment… these “safety” experts… I hope they're not scientists from the Bush Administration who only look at facts to support the outcome they want, rather than take all facts into consideration and then come to a conclusion….

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:07:15 +0000

And if a small black hole was created it just might be something not expected to be found in nature, a black hole with an electric charge. That would mean that it just might stay contained in the magnetic field of the accelerator for its lifetime.

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:03:31 +0000

The question is whether or not the collider would produce a stable black hole. Current theory says that black holes do in fact allow for some particles to escape the event horizon. As I understand it, the smaller the black hole the more unstable it is and the more likely it is to simply “evaporate” quickly.

By: DLS

DLS — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:55:48 +0000

“A stable black hole on Earth’s surface would, according to some of those objecting, consume the entire planet in a matter of days and eventually eat the solar system.”

The radical Left will still say the worst problem is global warming (and the modern West).

By: JTankers

JTankers — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:29:06 +0000

Quote: "so I’m going to have to go with the safety experts and take them at their word"

This new report provides reasonable evidence that when a stray cosmic ray particle collides with Earth or a Neutron star, dangerous black holes are not produced.

Unfortunately for those of us who do research the details, the report does not directly address the safety of colliding thousands of tightly packed anti-matter particles head on against thousands of tightly packed matter particles at 99.9999991% of the speed of light with powerful magnets and exactly opposing momentums to focus the energy. Planned conditions at the LHC that might create dangerous black holes.

This report simply asks us to make one hell of an assumption, that a single cosmic ray particle impact with Earth or Neutron stars will produce the same results as colliding thousands of anti-matter particles head on against thousands of matter particles with powerful magnets and exactly opposing momentums to focus the energy. We are asked to accept that these conditions must create the same results, without a single scientific explaination to support what appears to me to be a rather far fetched assumption “hence neither will the LHC“.

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