macspeedy
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 07:31 PM |
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anyone seen a blackhole yet
9.15 am this morning 
[Edited on 10/9/08 by macspeedy]
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macspeedy
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 07:34 PM |
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hope he's right
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eddie99
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 07:37 PM |
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If anything is going to happen, it will happen in roughly 2 weeks when they start colliding the atoms
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StevieB
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 07:40 PM |
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Only when I look at my bank statement...
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Hellfire
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 07:46 PM |
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The view outside our house earlier this evening. Nothing unusual.........
Phil
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StevieB
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 07:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by macspeedy
hope he's right
Particularly like Prof Brian Cox's reassurance 
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clairetoo
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 08:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
The view outside our house earlier this evening. Nothing unusual.........
Phil
Odd..........I've got the same sky here
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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Shadowcaster
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 08:33 PM |
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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.
Cheers Rich
The Roadster Blog http://richshaynesroadster.blogspot.com/
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
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RK
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 09:15 PM |
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Time to call Superman. Do you still have phone boxes in the UK?
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Dusty
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 09:33 PM |
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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.
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 10/9/08 at 09:36 PM |
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quote:
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............
Ben
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vinny1275
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| posted on 11/9/08 at 07:59 AM |
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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
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 11/9/08 at 08:08 AM |
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^^^
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.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 11/9/08 at 08:30 AM |
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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?
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motorcycle_mayhem
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| posted on 11/9/08 at 08:47 AM |
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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....).
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Benzine
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| posted on 11/9/08 at 08:56 AM |
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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.
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macspeedy
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| posted on 12/9/08 at 08:40 AM |
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
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