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Short One Marshmallow
Sep 7, 2006
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Well its 12 hours later and we are still here. I don't know whether to be relieved or upset.

I told a girl about it today here's what she said:

"We could hide in the Italian hills"
"We could design a floating ship"
"I don't even have a will"
and " we should go and stop them".

Me and her husband just looked at each other.

to the dude who asked if I was Jason: The clue is in my username. No.

To SkaredShtles: Cookies? I don't understand.

By the way, I'm sitting here sharing a beer with DaveW having a laugh about the world and Americans...
 

Damo

Short One Marshmallow
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wait... so you're telling me that there are ships that don't float???
Sorry, I think she said "flying". In otherwords, she was trying to come up with ways to escape a black hole imploding the universe...:redface:

You back in NZ for a bit? Say "hi" to that wanker for me. :D
Nah, he's over here. He says if the world does implode, at least we won't have to listen to Yanks any more...
 

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High energy collisions don't start until October 21st guys! Today was just a test to see if they could circulate the beam. No worry's, we're still all going to get sucked into a black hole...
 

jonKranked

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High energy collisions don't start until October 21st guys! Today was just a test to see if they could circulate the beam. No worry's, we're still all going to get sucked into a black hole...
Read the thread buddy, we're over black holes. Now we're onto bacon, flying ships, and me just learning that Damo is a Kiwi.
 

Riding

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FAKE! He was lip synching!


Seriously though, the other day I'm watching an old episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stephen Hawking was on there so I did an IMDB search and found this Gem of a credit:

Stephen Hawking
Actor:
"The Simpsons" (1 episode, 2007)
- Stop or My Dog Will Shoot (2007) TV episode (voice)

Wait, what!?! he got credited with voice? That has to be one of the funniest serious things I've seen in a while but is true, i guess.
 
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jonKranked

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FAKE! He was lip synching!


Seriously though, the other day I'm watching an old episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stephen Hawking was on there so I did an IMDB search and found this Gem of a credit:

Stephen Hawking
Actor:
"The Simpsons" (1 episode, 2007)
- Stop or My Dog Will Shoot (2007) TV episode (voice)

Wait, what!?! he got credited with voice? That has to be one of the funniest serious things I've seen in a while but is true, i guess.
Take what you can get, I guess.
 

jonKranked

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Heh. Black holes. I've done a bunch of reading on the subject, and in order for a black hole to not only form, but sustain itself you need a LOT of mass, and a LOT of energy. Like, a star - a big honking ball of gas and plasma. And it needs to explode (supernova). After it explodes, the fusion inside the star stops. At this point, one of 2 things will happen. What remains will either collapse in on itself, or it won't. If it doesn't collapse, the remaining gas will simply disperse as a cloud through space (or something along these lines). If it DOES collapse on itself, it will do another of 2 things... form a neutron star or form a blackhole.

For the amount of mass they're using at the LHC (hundreds of times exponentially less than a star), even IF a blackhole somehow manages to form, it will not have enough mass or energy to sustain itself and will quickly (we're talking a few nanoseconds here) dissolve.
 

Westy

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Heh. Black holes. I've done a bunch of reading on the subject, and in order for a black hole to not only form, but sustain itself you need a LOT of mass, and a LOT of energy. Like, a star - a big honking ball of gas and plasma. And it needs to explode (supernova). After it explodes, the fusion inside the star stops. At this point, one of 2 things will happen. What remains will either collapse in on itself, or it won't. If it doesn't collapse, the remaining gas will simply disperse as a cloud through space (or something along these lines). If it DOES collapse on itself, it will do another of 2 things... form a neutron star or form a blackhole. Like you said if it did form it would likely disapear very quickly.

For the amount of mass they're using at the LHC (hundreds of times exponentially less than a star), even IF a blackhole somehow manages to form, it will not have enough mass or energy to sustain itself and will quickly (we're talking a few nanoseconds here) dissolve.

That is how black holes happen in the Newtonian sense. In the crazy world of quantum mechanics anything can happen at any time, a tiny black hole can apear anywhere. The odds under most circumstances is rediculously slim. At the energy levels that can be obtained in the LHC the probability of a black hole forming are ten times higher than rediculously slim.
 

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That is how black holes happen in the Newtonian sense. In the crazy world of quantum mechanics anything can happen at any time, a tiny black hole can apear anywhere. The odds under most circumstances is rediculously slim. At the energy levels that can be obtained in the LHC the probability of a black hole forming are ten times higher than rediculously slim.
More importantly, its how a blackhole that could be a threat to the general well being of our planet would form (the newtonian one, not the quantum one).

Yes, based on the kind of particle bombardment we experience on a daily basis from cosmic radiation, these micro blackholes probably have formed, but have obviously never been a threat to anything substantial. Then again, it may explain why I keep losing socks in the dryer...