End of the world? or new discovery? ?

Question

Large Hadron Collider....what are the ideas on this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTR-hjHM_c

Answer 1

idk i thought the world was suppose to end in 2012 and if it is going to end let's just have a good time not think about wat might happen.

Answer 2

Won't know until Novemeber

Answer 3

Now concerning the day or hour no one knows - neither the angels in heaven nor the Son - except the Father. - Mark 13:32 HCSB

Answer 4

something like this is happening on tuesday or something isnt it?

Answer 5

It will not cause the end of the world. You need to watch a few other opinions than just a geeks.

Try this one: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fPxYdObyJ2...

Answer 6

If we were to slip into another dimension, it should be done naturally and we should not try and form anything putting the planet in danger.

This should be abolished. If we were ment to have a new dimension we shouldnt have to form it ourselves

Answer 7

No its not the end of the world, 2012 is the "end of the world as we know it", so worry about that instead, because that will really give you something to worry about.

Answer 8

There is already a collider working in the U.S it has been for years - this one is just larger. The world's best scientists aren't worried (just wade through the articles on the BBC) and so I'm not worried either.

Answer 9

The noise on my computer isn't working :|

But big bang 2? I'll beleive it when it becomes publisized with proof from real scientists..  

Answer 10

Your youtube video deserves a video response...

Answer 11

nerd.

Answer 12

It has been already calculated that the energy released on the LHC will not be enough (or even close to) to do any harm to our universe, not even to Earth, or the LHC itself.

Do you really think anybody looking to discover new things would build something that could kill us all without making sure is safe first?

But of course, nobody can be 100% sure as nobody is perfect. But there comes our feelings and the need for adventures. We all take risks, otherwise we would still be living next to Fred Flintstone.

The risk involve on the tests that will happen inside the LHC are so small that can count as zero (0) risk.

Answer 13

Discovery..  things we should have already discovered.  In Texas there was an even larger one under construction..  way back in 80's or early 90's.  The SSC.

Answer 14

Well done!

This is a huge, serious issue.

What he describes is possible!

Me, I'd rather play the lottery than gamble with existence.

Some say time is only our, a human, perception.  

It does not exist outside of us or something like that.

Now, a black hole can bend time.

My question:

So if we go into a black hole can we think our way out of it?

Very litterate young man in this video!

BTW:  When was this video made?  

Is it already too late?

Answer 15

Unless you know and can trust the source of a YouTube video, they are at best simple entertainment and at worst very bad science.

Answer 16

Everything is going to be fine.  It happens every day out in space.  The Hawking radiation in our atmosphere will basically kill any micro black holes that get created.  They will have less than a second to observe the workings of the universe at a fundamental level.

Answer 17

OH MY GOD!!!  HE'S A 17-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN HAWKING CLONE!!!!

This is a refreshing change of pace from the usual doom nonsense we get around here.

First, the concerns are based on some thing that is actually REAL.

Second, we won't have to wait too long for everyone to find out there was nothing to worry about and the glut of questions about it will stop before driving us all crazy.

The way some relatively legitimate sources describe this thing, I'm not surprised some people are worried, but really -- much of their press is a little bit overly dramatic.  We have learned that we can take tiny amounts of matter and collide them at extremely high speeds without any collateral damage whatsoever.  Yes, each new development in this evolution of science and technology has revealed something new, but even if they create black holes or "conditions similar to those of the Big Bang,"  they are not of cosmic proportion.  And they CAN'T be.  The kind of black holes they are talking about would probably be smaller than any subatomic particle and have no more gravitational force than a single atom.  They would also only last for like a zillionth of a second.

Not to worry.  Join us in anticipation of new discovery.

Answer 18

That is awesome

How many Americans struggled to understand the wonderful Scottish accent?

Anyway - it's a shame he didn't do just a little bit more research.

He is obviously not stupid (and has an entertainingly British sense of humour) - but the whole black hole bit is just wrong.

Even if the LHC succeeds in creating tiny (microscopic) Black Holes they will (a) not suck in everything around us and (b) evaporate rapidly.

Consider this: If the sun were replace by a black hole of the same mass, the gravitational pull on the earth would NOT change, we would continue to orbit. Granted the lack of light would present a few problems, but we would not be sucked in.

So the teeny weeny things the LHC might create are not a threat to creation!

But thanx for the link - that was fun...