Aug 27 2008This Is What Happens...

that video was...i dunno.

Which one were you referring to? Because the first one was interesting and the second one was painful.

On the matter of creating black holes. It's been proven that black holes are significantly more common than we used to believe with them occurring quite frequently and all around us. Small ones are quickly opening and closing without us even knowing, even here on Earth.

I can see that this will be the ultimate debate post...
All I know is there is several of them in the world including the USA but not in the scale of CERN's version. Basically, people are concerned that a chain reaction would occur from a tiny blackhole that it can consume the world when gravity pulls it to the core of the earth. CERN's reply was that it is too micro in size that the tiny black hole will disappear before having enough force to proceed.

They actually have a countdown site on the web somewhere on when this monster will turn on. As far as I know they just finished the cool down process and it took 1% of the entire world's supply of liquid helium to cool this giant magnet.

This is the "what if" of our time just like when the Manhattan Project was taking place in the past. Hopefully it will succeed and we will have new elements on our charts.

Oh hell yeah that is gonna be one kick ass ride to the other side. Can't wait for LHC to start making atoms collide!

I see people know nothing about particle physics. These types of reactions happen every second throughout the universe without black holes appearing and gobbling up whatever matter they happen to come across.
in fact the actual energy put into the collision is so small in comparison to the actual natural forces of the universe that a chance of creative a black hole is beyond remote.
it exists in a power only conceived of in the wildest imagination of physicists the world over.

So basically the Earth will turn into the "O" from the Heroes logo?

SWEET! Turn that bitch on!

"Videos are no longer available"

F***ing Youtube blows.

@chaosthirteen

"Small ones are quickly opening and closing without us even knowing, even here on Earth."

That's what she said!

On a more serious note... keywords = brown hole = hilarity.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

ENJOY!

@bann3d

Actually, in this case, since it's a black hole, it would be more accurate to say Youtube f***ing sucks.

I always pictured the end of the world would involve a lot more looting and depravity and a lot less shitty CGI.

You know, we don't have to wait for the end of the world to begin looting and depravity. It's more a guideline than a rule.

@10 ohhh I get it. Because if you take the last two letters of "black" and add an "s" before+after and the "u" of Youtube, it spells sucks. That's pretty clever, i totally loled.

@Ben

I'm confused. Please don't explain. I like riddles. I'll get back to you on this one.

LOL take that round ball that looks like my head

It's not even about black holes. It's the Higgs Particle.

...So he said "have you met her?" "Met her? I supercollider"

anyone? its not that old, damn it.

hm, that actually wasnt that bad, for rapping about particles and antimatter.

@ Amaranth

Pic #3 from your link looks like the portal to hell in the movie "Event Horizon".

Sweet, I've been waiting for a chance to get my Doom on and use my homemade BFG!

Daily there are collisions with cosmic rays, in our upper atmosphere, that are orders of magnitude more energetic than anything the LHC is capable of producing. Yet, we're still here. Hmmm...

Now, I'm no expert on the subject, but if that were to really happen, I don't think I'd be living anymore. Just a thought

That is the scariest f***ing thing ever. Thanks >:(

see you in hell, everyone

@20 Stop saying that! The media will here you and we won't be able to breath from apocalypse stories, there are enough from this.

Anyway, for a machine thats going to destroy the world, it doesn't look that doomsdayish, I would of expected them to paint it black or stick pictures of lightning bolts on it or something. :(

Also, another thought, look at the pictures from #9. What happens if just one of the wires or something doesn't work, do they have to go through the whole thing testing all the wires to find the single one that doesn't work?

i'm sorry but that was an amazing rap. props to CERN, watch out for their new album coming september 10th

If my physics professor rapped like that may be, just may be I would PASS the frigging class.

yknow in that video up there, the black hole effect is incorrect. its pictured as behaving as a drain for water, instead of the omni-directional pulling a supermassive singularity would have.

it should deflate, then twist in on itself (or something like that)

FYI, It was turned on a few weeks ago, after the cooling as someone said. but they are not starting to collide particles until septemper. In case anyone is interested the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) are going to have a live radio show talking to CERN when they start colliding stuff.

at current i have no link but ill post it if i find one

All prophecies point to something cataclysmic happening in 2012. The Mayan called it a world ender.

“The Maya messengers, reknowned for their architectural, artistic, mathematical and scientific achievements, left a calling card as a series of super-human sized stone monuments and pyramids with precise calendrical computations. Planted with great intention, these dates were left to ensure that future generations would be alerted to the coming end point of this great 26,000 year cycle. A cycle which corresponds also to a 26,000 year relationship of our Sun orbiting Alcyone, the central star of the 7 Sisters Pleiades constellation. According to the Maya, the "future" which lies beyond this end date is literally "a new world age" - "a new creation."

So yeah, this sounds great, lets make some of them black holes we don’t understand and hope for the best.

Just looks like one big ol Russian Roulette wheel to me.

Dude. This exact thing went down in Robert J. Sawyer's book, Flash Forward. It took place at CERN and involved the LHC, which was fired up and resulted in catastrophic results. I'm a'skeered. Hold me.

... when you f*** a stranger in the ass?

word to yo motha CERN is a bad memma jamma

Actually the first high energy collisions are not scheduled to occur till October 21st.
September 10th is merely the date they fire up the energy rings, after which they will test the machine for a month before performing any actual experiments with it.
So, worse comes to worse, the world won't end till end of October.

well, time to have all the sex i can in a month before we all die.

i Hope nothing happens it will be very disappointing if the world end in such a fancy way and not with zombies .(

Damn you f***ers, I better get one last Halloween before the world ends.

"but something heavy like the top quark is dragging it's ass..."
Wow. All I can say is wow. I've never heard the Higgs field described in a rap song before. And I hope I never again have to.

Why do scientists insist on personifying f***-off big dangerous super-computer-machines?

Naming it 'ALICE' just exponentially increases the chances of it going renegade on our asses.

@ 28:

Additionally, the LHC wouldn't create a black hole in the -middle- of the earth, because that's not where it's located.

... but I don't think anyone'll be caring about that if we all do end up getting sucked in.

Anyway, I also heart the rap; I better find an MP3 of that somewhere.

@39 You are so right. Should have given it a dude's name, like Bud. Then the worst you'd have to worry about is it consuming all your beer. Alice will work wonderfully for 28 days, then fail in a spectacular way that the men who work with it are completely unable to fathom. Not that they'll have time to fathom anything. Just eternity.

Next month?
I'M NOT EVEN LEVEL 70 YET OMG.

So what if it brings about the end of the world? I say let 'er rip and see what the hell happens.

@20
you are pretty damn wrong. spallation in the upper atmosphere is nowhere near as powerful as what they are planning. there is a reason they are using lead. from a mass abundance in the universe, it is nearly the most powerful selection.

Damn it! don't activate it!

I remember my physics professor talking about all the particle colliding he did at fermilab, and pretty much even when your colliding protons around 99.999% the speed of light. When they collide all of that energy is the equivalent to light a match. So this how black hole thing ending the world is bullshit. Just like the y2k virus, just like 2012 is going to disappoint, and just like the killer bees. Its all propaganda from the media to scare you into putting a paper bag over your head. DON'T PANIC.

Shouldn't we send Kurt Russel in to try reasoning with it first?

I watched one of the videos linked to it ... and all I can say is I would totally shout on a radio last second before Earth goes, "Oh, the humanity!"

Original, right. :]

i have my crowbar ready for unforseen circumstances

@42
LMAO! playing WoW? hahahaha that just made my day lol

@ 46

Heard in a court room,

"and then miss what did your late husband say?"

"Well Sir, he said, 'I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn"

Moral? even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.

The thing is...is that the people who are scared of this thing are the people who don't understand the LHC. The media and internet have dumbed it down into black hole machine, to scare us.

The reality is that the people who designed and built this accelerator are far more intelligent than I'd say 99% of us retards reading a blog, and that (although it has already been said here already) high-energy collisions of much greater intensity occur on Earth and across the Universe, far, far greater than what the LHC can produce. Stop being scared, and start being informed. I don't claim to know anything about theoretical physics, but at least I did my research.

Just google the CERN website and read for yourself.

Please, read this

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html

before you think of DooM and Cern being the same word.

And as you can see, yanks created a black hole in a lab

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0318_050318_pin_blackh ole.html

Nobody died and, of course, NOBODY KNEW!

crap.

It goes live on my birthday.

:(

@ 51 Just wondering, but what in the hell did that statement have to do with what I said.

@55.

Allegory.....

Regradless of what you think will happen the result may sometimes supprise you. Sorry for the dry wit its how I make points.

Did no one else expect a Big Lebowski video? "This is what happens Larry! This is what happens when you F*** A STRANGER IN THE ASS!"

The doomsday folks are like rich suburban kids in Orange County discussing how best to solve gang violence. Not a damn clue.

I'm a shiver of excitement about this but when is it actually going to happen

s.o.b come on u guy are stupid poeple love life if u dont kill ure self dont kill oder people???

From the CERN Website: "Whatever the LHC will do, Nature has already done many times over during the lifetime of the Earth and other astronomical bodies."

I love how they say that nothing bad is going to happen but in the same breath admit that they don't actually know what's going to happen. :-) It makes me laugh and then cry...

you know i want this to open a giant black hole and suck up the earth.......although zombies would be the best way.......
but still i don't want to wait until October for the black hole(if it comes) i want it now...........oh and you all need to stop worrying if the world ends the world ends its not like we would be disappointed in the way that we go....we would be dead... i cant wait=]

Now, im no expert. Why, yes! My existential shell IS filled with the dreams of wild chipmunks! Thankyou for asking!

@48 WELL, I would shout "OH, the Vorganity!"

in reality the amount of energy and mass it would take to create a true black hole would be millions of times greater than anything the hadron collider has at its disposal. the classical `black holes` of science fiction are the remnents of massive stars thousands of times larger than our sun which took millions of years to form. we don`t have what it takes to create anything even a fraction of the size.

As long as it's painless!