LHC dimensional apocalypse from midnight: Your thoughts Well, this is it. In the early hours of tomorrow morning, scientists at the controls of titanic machines situated in mighty hollowed-out caverns and tunnels deep beneath Switzerland will begin to unleash forces so vast and complex as to tax the very limits of human comprehension. The mighty Large Hadron Collider, most powerful …
"One anonymous coward considered this and brought up one of the best-known rules of science, at any rate the science one learns - as we learn ours here at the Reg - mostly from chaps in the pub.
But what about if by a million/billion/whatever to one chance we are the first "intelligent life" to emerge. Someone has to be, and we all know that the thing about million to one chances is that they happen nine times out of ten."
Or indeed the Discworld books.
Ready. "It's a million to one chance..."
"If we could, we'd be witnessing Big Bangs and self-created black holes all over the cosmos and they would be our primary indicator of "intelligent life" ... But if we don't at least try, we might as well have stayed in caves eating cold veggies because we had no tools to hunt or cook with."
You are missing the point, good sir! It probably *has* happened several times already, resulting in the formation of a new universe each time. This time we're the first to get to that stage.
Or, possibly, aliens have got to that stage and when the experiment was proposed it was met with a "WTF? Are you insane?" type response. Only humans would be daft enough to spend billions of Galactic Credits on building something to wipe out the universe.
Still, it's Friday so I'm not going to let the destruction of the universe spoil my weekend.
CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's
a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole
sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe? (He dons
his fur-lined hat.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time
phenomena on board.
CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's
a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole
sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: (Minus the hat.) So, that thing's spewing time back into the
universe? (He dons his fur-lined hat, again.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time
phenomena on board.
LISTER: What time phenomena?
KRYTEN: Like just then, when time repeated itself.
CAT: So, what is it?
There have been stories suggesting that a mini blackhole might be formed when it is switched on which would engulf the planet. Although they didn't get it to work properly last time and I didn't find myself being drawn slowly towards Switzerland, I did feel an irresistable urge to buy Toblerone.
I enjoy the uncertainty of this rather crazy experiment. Who would have thought that a bunch of physics boffins would create an over the top theorical dooms day device all in the name of Higgs Boson.
I personally fail to understand how this experiment will magically link the quantum mechanics to Einstiens relativity. Someone still had to do the maths, unless they are trying to contact our foreign dimensional hyper evolved cousins long enough for them to pass through the secret science paper with the formula upon it.
Still whatever happens I'm grateful for the coverage and the nonesense spouted by the ever ignorant but always amuzing army of fuitcakes, pagans and erotic vampires.
Think I'll make sure I have a pint in hand and a towel on standby just to be safe.
" You speak out of both sides of your mouth first you say there is a potential of mangeling the fabric of space-time but then you say "nutballs" (whatever that means) think this could doom earth. WELL WHAT IS IT THEN! CAN IT MESS UP SPACE TIME OR NOT. NICE REPORT! "
Best read with the voice of Morbo the Annihilator from Futurama.
If a black hole did come into existence I’d like to think that for the split second preceding our becoming a singularity we could all look down at our feet and see spagettification in action…unfortunately like every other “cool” spacey type phenomena it won’t go down like it does in the movies, it’ll just be a couple of geeks in white coats covering the graveyard shift at cern who notice a blip on a screen or a white pixel on the screen where there should be a black one…
if only physics was really as fun as its made out to be
Fools! While you all gibber-jabber like gibber-jabbering gibber-jabberers the so-called "scientists" of the LHC are going to rend the known universe! Including the good bits!
We must join forces to demand these idiotic meddlers in matters they don't understand lay off the Large Hadron bashing and get moving on the flying car, the rocket shoe (with altimiter in the heel) and the kill-o-zap blaster problems. Something with some sales potential anyway. "We have invented a gateway into a Universe where matter cannot exist". How marketable is that? "We made a black hole but it evaporated before anyone could measure it". How can that be packaged as the ideal Christmas Gift?
Scientists! Stop piddling around with cosmic forces beyond comprehension and do *useful* science!
I met Boson Higgs whilst serving on HMS Hadron, a charming mate of relatively great mass, who had a strange attraction to doughnut holes. Torus to bits laughing as he lepton the beam amidships and was accelerated rapidly to sea, landing in a black hole nearby the 7th planet.
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