So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my
cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I get
the msg before or after?
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
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I understand that the dangerous stuff where we could be swallowed in a
black hole doesn't start for a few months. Brings to mind the bets they
took at Los Alamos about whether the first a-bomb in Alamogordo would
set fire to the atmosphere. And only slightly more media coverage of
this one -
You asked this question a week ago. And the week before that...and the week
before that...Come to think about it, the weeks have all seemed very
similar.
Am I the only one who remembers this?
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> So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be
> switc
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my
cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I
get
the msg before or after?
My brother the astrophysicist and my frien
At 05:04 PM 9/9/2008, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my
cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I
get the msg before
At 08:02 PM 9/9/2008, you wrote:
My brother the astrophysicist and my friend's brother who works
at CERN seem to be calm.
On the other hand my brother shot himself in the nose with a spear
gun when he was 16 (no kidding) and my friend's brother was involved
in that rap video.
Worst case is tha
Yes, but the question remains, "Big Bang Breakfast Bar" or "The Restaurant
at the End of the Universe"?
Heh. The CERN people say if it happens it (the black hole)
would be so small as to be completely unstable and would
not persist for more than an infinitesmal period of time.
They also argue
Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Eric S. Sande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Even if they do manage to create a tiny, stable black hole it will
> take a very long time for it to eat a planet.
>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, mike wrote:
Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets?
Or worse yet, Bush claiming that the black hole is a natural phenomenon,
so we don't need to do anything about it. :-)
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Eric S. Sande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Vicky Staubly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, mike wrote:
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>> Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets?
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>
> Or worse yet, Bush claiming that the black hole is a natural phenomenon,
> so we don't need to do anythi
That's true, it's not like there aren't any other black holes in the
universe...
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Vicky Staubly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, mike wrote:
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>> Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets?
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>
> Or worse yet, Bush cla
>Nobody really KNOWS what is going to happen, but that's the
>whole point of the experiment.
Risk is computed as the product of (probability of occurrence) times (the
degree of horribleness of the event).
So "probability of occurrence" is a very small number.
What value for "degree of horrible
> What value for "degree of horribleness" do you assign to "total
> destruction of the planet?"
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If no one is here to measure it, is there any horribleness at all?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What value for "degree of horribleness" do you assign to "total
> destruction of the planet?"
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>
Risk is computed as the product of (probability of occurrence) times (the
degree of horribleness of the event).
So "probability of occurrence" is a very small number.
What value for "degree of horribleness" do you assign to "total
destruction of the planet?"
Ah, I'm going to punt on that
>If no one is here to measure it, is there any horribleness at all?
So how quickly does a mini-black hole eat all of creation? Do we watch
Europe vanish all at once or over a period of weeks? Does a weakened
earth start to break up into chunks? At what point does the atmosphere
evaporate?
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At 11:07 PM 9/10/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>At what point does the atmosphere
>evaporate?
It already is vapor! A Gas!
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At 09:44 PM 9/10/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>What value for "degree of horribleness" do you assign to "total
>destruction of the planet?"
Zero?
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Date:Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:29:24 -0400
From:"Eric S. Sande" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LHC
>Risk is computed as the product of (probability of occurrence)
Anyway to get a black hole to suck up CO2?
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] LHC
> To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 12:07 AM
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At 11:06 PM 9/17/2008, Paul Meyer wrote:
>Anyway to get a black hole to suck up CO2?
Of course, but it sucks up everything else also.
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> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] LHC
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> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 7:35 AM
> At 08:02 PM 9/9/2008, you wrote:
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> >My brother the astrophysicist and my friend's
> brother who
Okay, hearing about the CERN astrophysicist who shot
himself in the nose with a spear gun is one of
the funniest (though perhaps I should be disturbed)
stories in a long time. I do have to ask, what is
"that rap video"?
The spear gun astrophysicist is my brother. He works at GSFC,
not CERN. Th
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