Baby Bang experiment could open door to new dimension

[Ace-Ventura]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/stor...ectid=10400645
Wow, this sure looks like SCIFI. I am just a little scared about the black holes, seems too risky

[jds1982]

* They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low.

Well I hope their estimates are right, I'd hate to have Earth destroyed, it's where I keep all my stuff! Seriously though I wouldn't be worried about the mini black holes, chances are they'll evaporate within seconds and pose no danger to anyone.

[Star Fox]

well it would suck if they were wrong, better get the lawn chair and a tanning mirror just to be safe, if the world is gonna end i want to go out enjoying myself

[Sparda]

you know that story sounds familiar.
Last week there was a documantary about this.
And some poeple sad that if they create a black hole those people don't care about the consequenses.
Iff they blow up our little earth
only thing what i am going to say is something like.
I don't wanna tell ya i told ya so butt i told ya so.

[Seastallion]

Cool..!

[freyr's mother]

They need to weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before they do the experiment.

[Battera]

Does anyone else think this might lead to a real-life ZPM?

[immhotep]

im not worried
Im not actually this could be huge, the biggest innvoation in sceince's understanding of the universe since, well ever i geuss. Hubble and the space shuttle will pale if this get what its aimed at. also the ZPM and black hole power generation is a completely seperate thing, i nkow, ive had black hole power thuroughly explained by Sea! confusing but a great convo! it could mean that we gain a truely unlimited power sources though.

27KM? wow that is one hell of a PA, where are they getting the energy, a new fusion reactor 129KM long?!

[ancientaction]

Well I hope their estimates are right, I'd hate to have Earth destroyed, it's where I keep all my stuff! Seriously though I wouldn't be worried about the mini black holes, chances are they'll evaporate within seconds and pose no danger to anyone.

yea, i mean... how do they know the chances are small. theyve never done it before!

[2ndgenerationalteran]

havent we been using particle accelarators before fo a long time (relatively)?

[freyr's mother]

yea, i mean... how do they know the chances are small. theyve never done it before!

They dont. They are calculating the chance for error mathematically, which doesn't mean much to me. For one thing, they could get drastically different results then the mathematics predicts.

[alaskannut]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/stor...ectid=10400645
Wow, this sure looks like SCIFI. I am just a little scared about the black holes, seems too risky

Destroy the Earth?*snort* Uhmmm...yeah, whatever.

Guys...seriously...don't let the media hype get to you...even if they do manage to create a black hole it will be infinitesimally small and thanks to Hawking radiation, exceedingly shortlived...they'll be lucky to detect it before it ceases to exist.

Anyone remember the media freak-out over the experiments done at Brookhaven a few years ago? Well, last I checked the world is still here

[freyr's mother]

Anyone remember the media freak-out over the experiments done at Brookhaven a few years ago? Well, last I checked the world is still here

What experiments?

[Gregorius]

Destroy the Earth?*snort* Uhmmm...yeah, whatever.
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Anyone remember the media freak-out over the experiments done at Brookhaven a few years ago? Well, last I checked the world is still here

Isn't it nearing election time? That would explain why the media is getting so worked up.

Anyway, I wouldn't be that worried about the experiments on Earth. Those mini-black holes also appear and dissapear in nature and have probably appeared on Earth long before we tried to create them.

[alaskannut]

What experiments?

Pretty much the same thing that they're doing at CERN...just with a little less power...a few links some good...and to put things in perspective, some paranoid.

http://library.thinkquest.org/25715/myths/myths.htm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...blackhole.html

http://www.kressworks.com/Science/A_..._my_planet.htm

http://www.jaronbs.com/brookhaven.htm

http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/black_holes.htm

http://qd.typepad.com/5/2005/03/public_service_.html

And my fave: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativ...y_Ion_Collider

If you want more info, Google "Brookhaven + black holes"

As much as some would like to believe...it is just not physically possible for humans to destroy this planet...render it incapable of supporting life yes. Destroy it with a black hole? Only on Tabloid front pages and the Scifi Channel

For anyone who's still worried about that 1 in 10 to the whatever chance... collisions like this happen all the time in Outer Space and in the upper regions of the atmosphere. We are still here. The Earth is still here.

Also, just remember, thanks to Chaos Theory, there is a minuscle chance that the next time you pass gas you will cause a global superstorm that could wipe out human civilization. I predict though that you will not try and hold it in though