I have heard that some people believe that when the LHC is first used it will create miniature black holes that will devour the earth. Now I have thought about this, from a physics point of view, for a good 1o minutes and have decided that it is not going to happen and they are being daft.
I have also decided that from a quantum mechanical point of view there is no reason that the scenario set out in the 'Lynx 3' advert could not happen in reality - two colliding wave functions constructively interfering - and that 'Lynx 3' some how magically increases the probability of such an event occurring, and so I shall continue to buy it just in case.
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- To steal a phase from a friend, "the chief things that define you are your spiritual and political inclinations". So I am Atheist, Royalist, Physicist and Conservative. I have also had to use spell check 3 times so far writing this. More will be added as I decide how to describe myself.
3 comments:
I think it'd be fun if any micro black holes were created and didn't evaporate.
They'd only be able to interact gravitationally, and they'd have the mass of a handful of subatomic particles, so they'd hardly ever accrue mass.
It'd be such a slow and spectacular apocalypse.
I wonder if they would try to keep it quiet for a while, and we would wake up every morning slightly closer to central Europe.
I seriously cannot think of any reason why a black hole would be created. Sure they collide with a lot of energy, but so do galaxies and they don't create black holes every time they do, or at least I am not aware of it if they do.
I also look forward to http://xkcd.com/401/
and would very much like the 5TeV candy to be true.
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