World ending in 9 days? your views on it?

Question

Everyone probably knows this by now but the company called CERN have created a machine that will create a miniature big bang.Some scientists want to stop it because they think that the mini black holes it will create won't be destroyed but the company says that they will be destroyed as soon as they are born but even the smartest people on earth make mistakes. They are saying that the experiment is vital to unlock all the secrets of the universe but maybe some things aren't meant to be discovered. I was just wondering what other people thought.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece

Answer 1

There are very few (real) scientists who still would like to see it stopped.  There are still people who think that there are some things which we are not meant to discover (this is false) and there are some people in the scientific community (not necessarily scientists) who think that the money could have been spent elsewhere (like on their own projects, for example).  The LHC does cost a lot of money.

The extremely tiny black holes that could, perhaps, maybe, be created are "energy" black holes, not "matter" black holes like the ones we have grown to know and love out in space (like the one at the centre of the Milky Way and others at the centre of almost all galaxies).

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An energy black hole is when a point reaches a temperature called the Planck Temperature.

141 679 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 K

(there are 27 zeros)

Which is approximately

255 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 F

(there are 30 zeros)

This is the highest temperature which has any kind of meaning in physics.

This type of black hole is so small that it evaporates immediately.  We will not be able to detect it; we will have to guess as to whether one was created or not, by analysing the particles produced by the energy being liberated.

Since the energy comes from the colliding particles (mass and speed), the total amount of energy will be the same (with or without the black hole), the only difference will be the extremely short delay corresponding to the life of the black hole: probably around what is called, appropriately, the Planck Time of

0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 054 second.

(there are 43 zeros after the decimal)

This black hole (if it is produced at all) will be so small that it could go through a proton without touching the quarks inside.  Even at the speed of light, it would not even have time to make it out the other side of the proton (if it entered one at all).

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The fact that the only source you can find is the Sun, is another hint.

Answer 2

  It is not capable of destroying the world.

Answer 3

This question came up decades ago when previous generations of accelerators were being built.

The events that will soon start at CERN are just like events that happen every day in the upper atmosphere. With a few important differences. The ones in the upper atmosphere cover then enitre energy range of CERN and reach MUCH higher energies than CERN will. This means that if events like this would destroy the world it would have already happened.

Answer 4

The will most likely pretend that the LHC opened a "doorway" or "stargate" that fake 'aliens' will come through to set up the one world religion and the one world government:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJirnJSwq...

Answer 5

It's silly. And if it was true, surely it'd be on bigger news than The Sun? Surely BBC1 news would have reported on it? :)

Answer 6

Well hey let's all quit our jobs and run up some credit card debt, eh?

Answer 7

Just another myth.  

Answer 8

Yay, Now I don't have to pay my cable bill!!

Answer 9

Rest easy...

This is simply the latest example of scientific ignorance permeating the press.

Nothing will happen.  

Answer 10

Tell everyone you know and don't know to take 9/10-9/11 off.

9/11 should have been a holiday by now anyways.

Answer 11

Just more possible fake terrorist attacks to set up New World Order.

Answer 12

h**l YEAH BABY h**l EAH!!!

Answer 13

Like most things in Earth Physics, you don't really know the outcome of something until you have tried it. However, messing with worm holes/mini black holes based on the level of understanding that Human culture has, "IS NOT ADVISABLE"

This could be nothing too serious or it could be Pandora's Box. It could only takes one small miscalculation for everything we know to go "BANG"

I'm just going to assume that it will be like all the other predictions of DOOM in so many days/weeks/years, the next day we will all still be here paying the bills. LOL

Answer 14

Hoax--- has about as much value as "man cannot travel faster than 35 mph" spoken during the late 1700s..... about the time that trains started running.

Answer 15

Maybe no, maybe yes.

If no, then there's noting to worry about.

If yes, it's to late to worry about it.

If no, life goes on until the next hoax.

If yes, well, at least you can say, "I was there." Tho I don't know who you'd say it to.

Answer 16

there is a  10^-25% chance that a stable black hole will open and destroy the earth, not likely.

Answer 17

I live only 1500 km away from it, and I am NOT scared at all.

The black holes it could theoretically create (but that is not automatic, it depends on a special theory to be true, because otherwise, the energy would not be enough) would have the problem, that they have not the time to exist and attract matter before they vaporize. And this vaporization process must happen, if it is possible to create black holes, because the theory which predicts black holes in the LHC is based on the same mathematical foundation as the Hawking Radiation. This theory also explains, why the universe is not full of these small black holes.

Next, these black holes would also keep their electrical charge, and the electromagnetic field is much stronger as the gravity field. Two black holes inside the LHC can't merge to a larger one, as they would repel each other stronger, as they attract each other.

And finally: No satellite in Earth orbit ever disappeared because a black hole got created by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. So, something seems to happen which prevents this fate.

And the Sun is one of the worst sources for anybody, who does not work for the MIB. Especially because it writes "It will create black holes", though even the most critical scientists are not sure, if the energy will be enough. It can be enough. That is interesting, but not bad.

Answer 18

It can't end yet,I still need to read the endings of all the manga series I'm reading!nooo!