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  • I don’t think its that dangerous, to be fair they’ve been doing this stuff at CERN for 60 odd years now and haven’t managed to blow anything up yet…

    There’s also an ethical code that all CERN resources should only be used for peaceful purposes (far worse things are going on here in Britain at AWE and Burghfield, in near-complete secrecy)

    I do think its Europe’s equivalent of the “space race” / NASA and is a bit of a status symbol for the richer EU nations (and I am still not sure what exactly you can do with sub-atomic particles) but its research does have some spin-offs with a wider benefit; particularly in the fields of IT

    the world wide web was invented there (I was using the info.cern.ch server in 1992), and this more recent project creates a technical challenge of streaming an large amount of computer data in real time to multiple sites….

    Auch wenn du am Abgrund stehst, und gar nichts mehr verstehst,
    wachen Engel über dich, halten dich im Licht und lassen dich nie fallen.

    LOL – Scientists poking their fingers into the electric light socket of the universe, and playing with the switch to see what happens again…:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:

    “Mini black holes” is a good one – black holes are all small from a certain point of view (if the theories are right, the space taken up by the collapsed neutron star is tiny due to the gravitational force). Can you have a “small” gravity field and it still be strong enough that neither matter or light can escape it’s effect? :laugh_at::weee: :weee: :weee:

    What they mean is they don’t know what will happen, but it’s going to be entertaining finding out….

    The one that always makes me chuckle is the first test of large scale nuclear fusion (otherwise known as the H-Bomb). Apparently, they had worked out the odds of the chain reaction going critical, and igniting all of the hydrogen in the earths atmosphere beforehand, and come up with a figure of 300,000:1…:hopeless::hopeless::hopeless: .

    I voted for it being essential research btw… Particle physics is endlessly entertaining IMO – watching scientists scratch their heads in total bafflement after having made some exotic quantum particle do something it’s not supposed to be able to do is worth any number of CERN’s…

    And they do have useful moments too – remember, it was a scientist at CERN who came up with the idea of the WWW. 😉 :bounce_g::bounce_g::bounce_g:

    i was under the impression that black holes start off small but grow as they suck more stuff in!! either way the amount of gravity is immense i dont know how their facility would cope with it?

    I can see it having some interesting results, but i wouldn’t expect black holes to be one of them.as noname says, it is thought they are made when a neutron star collapses, which is a super dense star, with massive amounts of mass. black holes arnt born of tiny dense specks, but are the death throws of super heavy stars.allthough what we observe as a black hole is just the area round it where gravity becomes so strong it bends light back on itself (the event horizon) inside this field gravity becomes stronger and stronger crushing everything until you get to the middle where it is crushed completly out of existence ( the singularity) the only places in the universe where matter and energy are completly destroyed. everywhere else matter and energy can only be converted(burnt wood becomes carbon and heat etc) so in a sense a black hole is not just small, it doesnt even exist

    probably create some whopping big plasma fields though, wich as general lighting says, they’ve been playing with for ages

    It’s like the time they thought that detonating a nuclear device could trigger off a massive chain reaction in the atmosphere, yet they still went ahead and did it anyway..

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