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soonerinkaty
11/8/2010, 08:48 PM
Now black holes will pop up all over our front yards. Damn Europeans!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228

Not really, just a bang hotter than the surface of the sun.
StoopTroup
11/8/2010, 08:57 PM
When the reporter said "How many more are you gonna do?" and the answer he gave was..."We're doing them all the time". I LOL'd. Talk about not doing your Homework. The Collider has been a huge story for a very long time now and this reporter acts like the Circus just came to town.

Unbelievable.
The
11/9/2010, 09:16 AM
Science is scary.
Ike
11/9/2010, 09:57 AM
Science is scary.

Only if you listen to the kooks.
texaspokieokie
11/9/2010, 09:59 AM
too bad they didn't complete the one in ellis county.
Ike
11/9/2010, 10:06 AM
too bad they didn't complete the one in ellis county.

Yes and no. The SSC was a good idea, and had it been built, the LHC probably wouldn't exist. CERN would have built something to replace LEP, but probably not the LHC. However, the cost estimates done for the SSC were terrible, and continually being revised upward (congress approved it at 4.4 billion, canned it when the estimates reached 12 billion)....that was the primary failure of it, and that failure taught the HEP community a lot, and made them better because of it.

So while it would have been nice to have this thing, if we still had it, HEP probably still wouldn't be very good at estimating how much they were going to need to do something.
Boomer.....
11/9/2010, 10:16 AM
The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

How can the collider contain something this hot?
The
11/9/2010, 10:21 AM
Only if you listen to the kooks.

Kooks are comforting.
Ike
11/9/2010, 10:23 AM
How can the collider contain something this hot?


It's only that hot in a very very very small volume (so small you wouldn't see it). The matter (quarks and gluons) in that volume expands under it's own pressure, and cools as it does (and forms the particles we can observe...baryons and mesons). By the time any of those particles reach any of the matter of a detector, the density of particles (and thus temperature) is much much lower than at the point of collision of the lead ions.
3rdgensooner
11/9/2010, 10:26 AM
Now black holes will pop up all over our front yards.pfft That's a Saturday night at my place.
Oldnslo
11/9/2010, 11:13 AM
isnt it ionic, don't you think?
The
11/9/2010, 11:15 AM
isnt it ionic, don't you think?

I'm hoping for positive results.
Oldnslo
11/9/2010, 03:08 PM
I'm hoping for positive results.

I'm not sure you grasp the gravity of the situation.
Ike
11/9/2010, 03:40 PM
I'm not sure you grasp the quantum chromodynamics of the situation.

FIFY
The
11/9/2010, 03:50 PM
FIFY

A neutrino walks into a bar. The bartender says "Hey! We don't serve your kind here. You'll have to leave." The neutrino says "It's OK, I'm just passing through."
The
11/9/2010, 03:51 PM
The bartender says "Hey! We don't serve your kind here." A tachyon walks into a bar.
achiro
11/10/2010, 09:15 AM
The bartender says "Hey! We don't serve your kind here." A tachyon walks into a bar.

I bet Ike laughed.
The
11/10/2010, 09:22 AM
I bet Ike laughed.

I hope so.