No, in fact one of the research to be performed in this is to create blackholes. But since the majority of people cannot understand the nature of a black hole everyone is going "OMG EARTH BE DISTROEI!11!sqrt(1)"
Blackholes have been created in the past and have this tendency to "evaporate" using radiations (even the big ones in the middle of galaxies, although in this case they receive more matter than they can expunge and, thus, grows). Even if the hole phenomenon is not understood entirely (like, you know, growing up to 7-8 dimensions around it), the "danger" they represent has been fully studied and they are not scared by those who knows what the **** is going on.
what an interesting little debate this started. Interestingly enuf i also know a decent amount about this project. Mainly because I'm having to research it, and I'm a physics major and all(i admit I'm only a junior so i may be shaky on some of it). so please, don't quote an planned experiment at me that i already know about. The issue at hand is the inadvertent creation of black holes. Which is as i said, bullshit.
Ask1001: I was answering to Flashpoint at first (didn't even see your reply before I submitted). I am not exactly what you'd call an expert on the topic. I've graduated in Computer Science, so on the education level I don't know shit. I've read a lot of magazines (from physics to pretty much anything non-women) and I know when the matter at end is bullshit and when it's not. Blackholes-as-dangerous is bullshit. I was NOT totally speaking out of my ass, but my knowledge of the topic is limited. The fact that there was already black holes created was shared to me by a fellow physicists (and the mathematics that followed). I'll check elsewhere but I was trusting him enough to put this forward in a discussion.
My real point stay anyway: don't throw scandals and FUD around on matters where people that know what they are talking aren't afraid of.
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Poltras @ Apr 7th 2008 11:55AM
No, in fact one of the research to be performed in this is to create blackholes. But since the majority of people cannot understand the nature of a black hole everyone is going "OMG EARTH BE DISTROEI!11!sqrt(1)"
Blackholes have been created in the past and have this tendency to "evaporate" using radiations (even the big ones in the middle of galaxies, although in this case they receive more matter than they can expunge and, thus, grows). Even if the hole phenomenon is not understood entirely (like, you know, growing up to 7-8 dimensions around it), the "danger" they represent has been fully studied and they are not scared by those who knows what the **** is going on.
Keep the science stuff to the scientists. Please.
ginnal @ Apr 7th 2008 1:52PM
"Even if the hole phenomenon is not understood entirely"
"the "danger" they represent has been fully studied and they are not scared by those who knows what the **** is going"
How exactly does one study all the dangers of something not fully understood.
Ask1001 @ Apr 8th 2008 1:15AM
what an interesting little debate this started. Interestingly enuf i also know a decent amount about this project. Mainly because I'm having to research it, and I'm a physics major and all(i admit I'm only a junior so i may be shaky on some of it). so please, don't quote an planned experiment at me that i already know about. The issue at hand is the inadvertent creation of black holes. Which is as i said, bullshit.
Poltras @ Apr 8th 2008 9:49AM
Ask1001: I was answering to Flashpoint at first (didn't even see your reply before I submitted).
I am not exactly what you'd call an expert on the topic. I've graduated in Computer Science, so on the education level I don't know shit.
I've read a lot of magazines (from physics to pretty much anything non-women) and I know when the matter at end is bullshit and when it's not. Blackholes-as-dangerous is bullshit. I was NOT totally speaking out of my ass, but my knowledge of the topic is limited. The fact that there was already black holes created was shared to me by a fellow physicists (and the mathematics that followed). I'll check elsewhere but I was trusting him enough to put this forward in a discussion.
My real point stay anyway: don't throw scandals and FUD around on matters where people that know what they are talking aren't afraid of.