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megaman79 on 08 September 2008
twesterm said:
Actually, there's a much scary/interesting possibility than what's mentioned in that article (though the chance is much smaller and they aren't even sure if these things exist).

There's a theoretical type of matter (sticky matter maybe? I'm drawing a blank on the name) that when it touches any other kind of matter it instantly converts that matter to sticky matter and that bit of sticky matter converts all other matter it touches and so on. Some scientists say that this thing could possibly make some of that matter so the universe would be blinked out in an instant according to them.

 

Dark matter, the universe is full of it.   Its all bullshit, nothing bad will happen. Remember they won't actually be colliding anything for about a month. And even then theres plenty of other HC's around the world that have been running fine.

Seen Lost? I think it was dark matter that Ben messed with in the season 4 finale.



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megaman79 on 08 September 2008
zexen_lowe said:

Being sucked in by a black hole has to be one of the coolest things ever. I always wondered what's in a black hole If the experiment goes wrong, we'll be sucked by one and we'll be able to see what's inside! (of course we won't be able to actually see anything, and we'll all die, and the human race will be extinguished, but it's cool nonetheless)




Pretty cool way to die though, you get stretched longer and narrower the closer you get.

 

 



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

megaman79 on 08 September 2008

Won't destroy the world but it is yet another reason to not believe in God. That could be a problem.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Hawkeye on 08 September 2008

You people. Worrying about things like this is a form of OCD (I think? I asked about it in the OCD thread)
May be there is dark matter and black holes and may be there isn't. Same thing for man made global warming; we don't really know. Either way, the accepted theory is that dark matter can pass through normal matter and exist in the same place at the same time. If dark matter and normal matter collide, they turn into nothing, though its not clear how that would happen. THis particle accelerator is TRYING to make dark matter, right? So there is a very TINY chance that some dark matter is made. There is a TINY chance we will be able to capture it and study it if we make it, but most likely it will be like most dark matter and be undetectable. THEORETICALLY, a black hole could somehow spawn and if scientists current theory about black holes are right, the earth would be swallowed up. Boo hoo. Worrying about it does nothing.



BenKenobi88 on 08 September 2008
Hawkeye said:
You people. Worrying about things like this is a form of OCD (I think? I asked about it in the OCD thread)
May be there is dark matter and black holes and may be there isn't. Same thing for man made global warming; we don't really know. Either way, the accepted theory is that dark matter can pass through normal matter and exist in the same place at the same time. If dark matter and normal matter collide, they turn into nothing, though its not clear how that would happen. THis particle accelerator is TRYING to make dark matter, right? So there is a very TINY chance that some dark matter is made. There is a TINY chance we will be able to capture it and study it if we make it, but most likely it will be like most dark matter and be undetectable. THEORETICALLY, a black hole could somehow spawn and if scientists current theory about black holes are right, the earth would be swallowed up. Boo hoo. Worrying about it does nothing.

Well...while I don't think there's statistically any reason to worry about this experiment...it needs to be considered, by scientists anyway.

There was really nothing humans could do thousands of years ago to destroy the world...all we had was sticks and stones, or perhaps weapons to take down villages and cities...nothing to destroy the earth we stand on.

Today we have nuclear bombs and machines creating energies 100,000 times hotter than the sun...if we haven't gotten to the point where we have the capability to destroy the world, we'll be there in the next century.

We don't need to worry about it, but it's not like there isn't some danger in experimental science like this.  We have the most knowledgable people working on it, so what can we do.



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pichu_pichu on 08 September 2008

hm, I guess I don't have to do the chemistry homework that's due Wednesday now.



twesterm on 08 September 2008

Yeah, I'm not really worried about it (thought the fun title would have made that clear :-p).

Though it interesting to think what it would be like to be blinked out of existence by strangelets. I just can't wrap my head around getting blinked out existence. Or I guess I can fathom not existing but it's a mindfuck to be sitting here typing on the computer typing and then the next moment not existing and then trying to figure out that experience.



 

Hawkeye on 08 September 2008
BenKenobi88 said:
Hawkeye said:
You people. Worrying about things like this is a form of OCD (I think? I asked about it in the OCD thread)
May be there is dark matter and black holes and may be there isn't. Same thing for man made global warming; we don't really know. Either way, the accepted theory is that dark matter can pass through normal matter and exist in the same place at the same time. If dark matter and normal matter collide, they turn into nothing, though its not clear how that would happen. THis particle accelerator is TRYING to make dark matter, right? So there is a very TINY chance that some dark matter is made. There is a TINY chance we will be able to capture it and study it if we make it, but most likely it will be like most dark matter and be undetectable. THEORETICALLY, a black hole could somehow spawn and if scientists current theory about black holes are right, the earth would be swallowed up. Boo hoo. Worrying about it does nothing.

Well...while I don't think there's statistically any reason to worry about this experiment...it needs to be considered, by scientists anyway.

There was really nothing humans could do thousands of years ago to destroy the world...all we had was sticks and stones, or perhaps weapons to take down villages and cities...nothing to destroy the earth we stand on.

Today we have nuclear bombs and machines creating energies 100,000 times hotter than the sun...if we haven't gotten to the point where we have the capability to destroy the world, we'll be there in the next century.

We don't need to worry about it, but it's not like there isn't some danger in experimental science like this.  We have the most knowledgable people working on it, so what can we do.

Nukes are an extremely legitimate concern. Seeing as I have virtually no political power (the are 10's of millions of voters, and none of us decide whther or not a nuke goes off), theres really no reason to worry about that either. I just wish my country would stop picking fights witht hte rest of the world and focus on cutting down the debt and helping small business owners thrive and compete on a level playing field with big business like Wal Mart and such.

 



zexen_lowe on 08 September 2008
BenKenobi88 said:
Hawkeye said:
You people. Worrying about things like this is a form of OCD (I think? I asked about it in the OCD thread)
May be there is dark matter and black holes and may be there isn't. Same thing for man made global warming; we don't really know. Either way, the accepted theory is that dark matter can pass through normal matter and exist in the same place at the same time. If dark matter and normal matter collide, they turn into nothing, though its not clear how that would happen. THis particle accelerator is TRYING to make dark matter, right? So there is a very TINY chance that some dark matter is made. There is a TINY chance we will be able to capture it and study it if we make it, but most likely it will be like most dark matter and be undetectable. THEORETICALLY, a black hole could somehow spawn and if scientists current theory about black holes are right, the earth would be swallowed up. Boo hoo. Worrying about it does nothing.

Well...while I don't think there's statistically any reason to worry about this experiment...it needs to be considered, by scientists anyway.

There was really nothing humans could do thousands of years ago to destroy the world...all we had was sticks and stones, or perhaps weapons to take down villages and cities...nothing to destroy the earth we stand on.

Today we have nuclear bombs and machines creating energies 100,000 times hotter than the sun...if we haven't gotten to the point where we have the capability to destroy the world, we'll be there in the next century.

We don't need to worry about it, but it's not like there isn't some danger in experimental science like this.  We have the most knowledgable people working on it, so what can we do.

 

It's better to destroy the world by creating a black hole trying to understand better the universe than to destroy it with a futile and nonsense nuclear war.




Dgc1808 on 08 September 2008

Well we all must die someday right???

Hmmm..... if onlyI had a fully functioning PS3 right now.....



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