Anyone know when they are going to fire off the Large Hadron Collider?

[Aviation Pro]

Not that anyone will care if life as we know it ends with the creation of a mini black hole.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Winner of the Cheery Post Award.

:scared:

[Aviation Pro]

2. Better than being a cheery, red tomato....

...or some such shit like that.

[Nay]

9. LOLOL!! Well, I can think of worse ways to go, but still, let's hope it

doesn't come to that....

[Mz Pip]

3. Maybe before November

then we won't have to worry about the election anymore!

How long will it take for the earth to get sucked into a mini black hole?

[Aviation Pro]

4. God may know....

...but he doesn't play dice with the universe.

[Mz Pip]

6. But he does throw them

where we can't see...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. it already happened...

but it warped time and space so we will never know that it occurred...it is tied up in a temporal loop somewhere and all those poor...poor...people...oh, wait, WE'RE in the LOOP!!! HELLLLLP.

sP

[Aviation Pro]

7. I thought it was kinda worm holey today....

....meh.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. looks like someone has done their reading...

http://qntm.org/?destroy ;-)

HOW TO DESTROY THE EARTH

METHOD 2)

Sucked into a microscopic black hole

You will need: a microscopic black hole.

Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore your microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest.

Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.

Method: simply place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the centre of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.

Earth's final resting place: a singularity with a radius of about nine millimetres, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.

Feasibility rating: 3/10. Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.

sP

[annabanana]

15. Well. That answers THAT question.

Thanks

[ProdigalJunkMail]

16. yeah...but ya gotta read farther about the strangelets... n/t

[SaveOurSovereignty]

10. lets just hope

lets just hope were not as smart as we hope and its a total flop

[flashl]

11. Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho filed temporary injunction ...

See: Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More

[Fox Mulder]

12. Well, the Earth hasn't been sucked into a mini black hole yet.

So I guess they haven't fired it off yet.

[Ikonoklast]

13. As soon as you see the Cherenkov radiation from the atmosphere

Being sucked into the singularity first, you'll know that you only have a few more seconds to live.


Just enough time to say, "I told you so!"

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. well, let's just hope Hawking was right... n/t

[Aviation Pro]

18. As Hawking would attest....

....nobody on this planet has ever seen a black hole evaporate.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. then we'll just have to hope the math is right

and no one will likely EVER see a black hole evaporate...

sP

[arendt]

17. I understand the scenario; but where do you get "seconds"...

the event horizon of this black hole is literally microscopic. It can only consume a tiny amount of matter at the start.

I will admit that its mass will grow rapidly, but look at how mass relates to size. If the other poster's 9mm radius is correct, then this whole matter absorbing exercise is like erasing a blackboard the size of the solar system with an ordinary chalkboard eraser...its going to take more than a few seconds. (Not that we wouldn't be screwed.)

If the black hole is that small, it could go undetected as it exits the collider. Then, if my thoughts above are correct, it could do its yo-yo act through the earth for a long time before we even have a clue what is going on.

There,now. Don't you feel better.

arendt