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anyone seen a blackhole yet
macspeedy - 10/9/08 at 07:31 PM

9.15 am this morning

[Edited on 10/9/08 by macspeedy]

macspeedy - 10/9/08 at 07:34 PM

hope he's right

eddie99 - 10/9/08 at 07:37 PM

If anything is going to happen, it will happen in roughly 2 weeks when they start colliding the atoms

StevieB - 10/9/08 at 07:40 PM

Only when I look at my bank statement...

Hellfire - 10/9/08 at 07:46 PM

The view outside our house earlier this evening. Nothing unusual.........

Phil

StevieB - 10/9/08 at 07:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by macspeedy
hope he's right


Particularly like Prof Brian Cox's reassurance

clairetoo - 10/9/08 at 08:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
The view outside our house earlier this evening. Nothing unusual.........

Phil


Odd..........I've got the same sky here

Shadowcaster - 10/9/08 at 08:33 PM

Black Holes, got one of them things in the garage, swallows tools, screws, even the odd cup of tea. If a big one does open in a couple of weeks keep yer eye out for a snap-on screwdriver, dissapeared weeks ago.

RK - 10/9/08 at 09:15 PM

Time to call Superman. Do you still have phone boxes in the UK?

Dusty - 10/9/08 at 09:33 PM

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"Collisions releasing greater energy occur millions of times a day in the earth's atmosphere and nothing terrible happens.
Why don't the scientists study them rather than building their own toy. Seems a waste of money. And fairly poor green credentials with electricity bills of £14 million a year. I see sticky black footprints not black holes.

Ben_Copeland - 10/9/08 at 09:36 PM

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Originally posted by RK
Time to call Superman. Do you still have phone boxes in the UK?



Yes. but they are mostly used by drunk teenagers as toilets............

vinny1275 - 11/9/08 at 07:59 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Dusty
quote:

"Collisions releasing greater energy occur millions of times a day in the earth's atmosphere and nothing terrible happens.
Why don't the scientists study them rather than building their own toy. Seems a waste of money. And fairly poor green credentials with electricity bills of £14 million a year. I see sticky black footprints not black holes.


Already been done - in another part of CERN there's a big detector thing that particles crash into and are studied, but you need the really high energy to be able to do it with any accuracy. Also, to detect what happens to particles colliding in the upper atmosphere, you'd have to lift all of those big heavy detectors into space - rocket fuel is v.nasty compared to the nice nuclear reactors they use in France..... And to lift that much into space would cost you way more than 10 billion quid.

Previous advances in physics like quantum theory made everday items like telephone switches and computer chips possible - who knows what we'll be using in 40 years time because of what LHC (or the diamond light source in Oxfordshire) finds?

Cheers


vince

matt_claydon - 11/9/08 at 08:08 AM

^^^

Exactly, people deride experiments like this because they are expensive and have no obvious immediate benefit. But then neither did most of the science that led us to be able to build the things we take for granted today.

martyn_16v - 11/9/08 at 08:30 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Dusty
Seems a waste of money. And fairly poor green credentials with electricity bills of £14 million a year.


But if it helps to bring about an understanding that allows us to build, say nuclear fusion reactors that provide cheap clean energy for hundreds of years to come?

motorcycle_mayhem - 11/9/08 at 08:47 AM

As a soon to be redundant scientist, still practising in the UK (just), I'm biased................ BUT I'd rather see tax dollars spent on this than pouring them into a black hole that has already been created (financial sector greed, just greed basically, debt, the State....).

Benzine - 11/9/08 at 08:56 AM

This:

quote:
Originally posted by vinny1275
Previous advances in physics like quantum theory made everday items like telephone switches and computer chips possible - who knows what we'll be using in 40 years time because of what LHC (or the diamond light source in Oxfordshire) finds?


and this:

quote:
Originally posted by matt_claydon


Exactly, people deride experiments like this because they are expensive and have no obvious immediate benefit. But then neither did most of the science that led us to be able to build the things we take for granted today.

macspeedy - 12/9/08 at 08:40 AM

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html