The "big bang machine" is called the Large Hadron Collider.
The switch-on is due to take place at 0830BST. [TOMORROW]
When it turns on, two beams of protons will go around and around a huge ring..gaining energy with each lap.. When they reach enough energy.. they will collide with each other and for a split second.. there will be a shower of particles that may give us an idea what the Universe was like right after the Big Bang.
But remember, colliding two particles is VERY different than colliding all the matter in the Universe.. The Large Hadron Collider is doing nothing new.. The same thing has been going on naturally for years and years in the form of cosmic rays with much higher energies than the LHC.. We have not turned into a black hole yet..so why would the LHC change that?
We know two things for certain:
* It's unlikely that black holes will be created by the LHC
* If black holes ARE created, they will be quantum black holes that will exist for about a nano-nano-nano second before vapourizing oh i mean evaporating he he, and would not even be able to suck up a proton.
For those conducting the mega-experiment 300 feet under the French-Swiss border, answers to the birth of the universe may be answered.. But for people like Prof Otto Rössler of the University of Tübingen, it will be apocalypse. Last week, Rössler and other naysayers of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment had hoped that the European Court of Human Rights would block it... They believe that the chances of a black hole an intense gravitational field sucking in everything including light being created by the experiment is very high.. Rössler says that the worst case scenario will have the Earth sucked inside out within four years of a mini-black hole forming. The Court.. however, dismissed the petition.
The switch-on is due to take place at 0830BST. [TOMORROW]
When it turns on, two beams of protons will go around and around a huge ring..gaining energy with each lap.. When they reach enough energy.. they will collide with each other and for a split second.. there will be a shower of particles that may give us an idea what the Universe was like right after the Big Bang.
But remember, colliding two particles is VERY different than colliding all the matter in the Universe.. The Large Hadron Collider is doing nothing new.. The same thing has been going on naturally for years and years in the form of cosmic rays with much higher energies than the LHC.. We have not turned into a black hole yet..so why would the LHC change that?
We know two things for certain:
* It's unlikely that black holes will be created by the LHC
* If black holes ARE created, they will be quantum black holes that will exist for about a nano-nano-nano second before vapourizing oh i mean evaporating he he, and would not even be able to suck up a proton.
For those conducting the mega-experiment 300 feet under the French-Swiss border, answers to the birth of the universe may be answered.. But for people like Prof Otto Rössler of the University of Tübingen, it will be apocalypse. Last week, Rössler and other naysayers of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment had hoped that the European Court of Human Rights would block it... They believe that the chances of a black hole an intense gravitational field sucking in everything including light being created by the experiment is very high.. Rössler says that the worst case scenario will have the Earth sucked inside out within four years of a mini-black hole forming. The Court.. however, dismissed the petition.
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