Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th 409
Naznarreb writes "CERN announced today that the first attempt to circulate a beam through the Large Hadron Collider will be on September 10th, 2008. You can read the press release here. They also announced the event will be webcast live. According to the release, they're just planning to run a few tests laps, not smash any particles, so the world won't be ending quite yet." And despite that September 10th date, according to the BBC, "On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time."
Re:Get your affairs in order, people (Score:3, Insightful)
Um, if the entire planet is zortched out of existence, people won't really have to *worry* about having their affairs in order, will they?
The real question is, if one is created, will there be enough time for anyone to report it, or will the black hole swallow things almost instantly or will it grow faster than the information can travel?
Re:Aaaahhhhhhh !! (Score:3, Insightful)
If it disrupts time itself, perhaps it will have already happened by now. :-D
Ok, seriously... enough with the Sept. 11 crap (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, I'll probably get modded troll or something for this, but it needs saying.
There's many comments in here about "oh, what about Sept. 11... couldn't they pick a better day?" and the like.
NEWS FLASH: The rest of the world does NOT come to a screeching halt every Sept. 11th. All points of business are NOT put on hold on that one day of the year. The rest of the world has moved on, if they even stopped to begin with. GET OVER IT!
LHC isn't even located in the USA for christ sakes.
Yes, the Sept. 11 events were sad, but seriously... stop criticizing all events taking place somewhere on earth on or around that date.
Newtonion violation and Non-consuming destruction (Score:1, Insightful)
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Even if they doe(sic) form, and are stable, they will be so small so as to sink to the center of the earth and star[t] devouring it at the alarming pace of 1 atom a year
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I think this voilates newtons law that 'a body in motion remains in motion unless it is pushed/pulled by something' (paraphrasing)
The micro-black whole would only stop at the bottom of the gravity well if it was consuming matter.
btw, don't forget about the relativistic beams that shoot off of the mbh.
A mbh could shoot off relativistic beams of matter that cause fission/fusion/reorganization of matter in a way that could destroy the earth without consuming a single atom.
Re:September 10th? (Score:2, Insightful)
Such as yourself?
Re:Get your affairs in order, people (Score:2, Insightful)
The good news: Michael Bolton's going with us.
Re:Get your affairs in order, people (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Anyone else getting this error from that link? (Score:5, Insightful)
That would be HTTP 410.
"The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address." (RFC 2616)
There's no excuse for such incorrect implementation of standard protocols, even if the catastrophic destruction of the earth is involved.
Re:Get your affairs in order, people (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Get your affairs in order, people (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Get your affairs in order, people (Score:3, Insightful)
Why eat one proton? Since they're smashing protons, wouldn't the blackhole already have a positive electric charge?
Stop growing at that point is clear enough for me: it has still only the gravitational pull of a few proton masses, hardly enough to be significant at these scales. Electromagnetism rules them big time.
Re:September 10th? (Score:3, Insightful)
"For those in the US, two degrees kelvin is roughly a bazillgian degrees below zero."
Its actually about 456 degrees below 0 F
Re:September 10th? (Score:2, Insightful)