Large Hadron Collider, In france

[OvermindDL1]

I think I heard said black hole would be undetectable and would take about 500 or so years to have an effect and maybe a millennia before it has enough mass to actually rapidly destroy the planet.

As stated before, any black hole with even the mass of the earth would only exist for a micro-second, even with the mass of the sun it would only exist for a few minutes.  Second, if they were capable of creating mini black holes in that thing then we would be bombarded by mini black holes all the time as the particles that hit our atmosphere would be spawning them all the time.

Do not forget though, we are circling a black hole right now.  The center of our galaxy (and thought to be the center of most massive galaxies as well) has been proven to be a super-massive black hole.  We are beyond the wake though, being on one of the outer arms that is, so we would not get sucked in, in however many billions of years, instead we will fly out of the galaxy.
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[bigbadbogie]

Remember that yesterday was only a completely harmless one-way test run, they didn't actually collide anything yet.

I think that is scheduled for late October. So we have just over a month to smuggle a nuke into Switzerland and blow this baby to ashes before it kills the lot of us. (Assuming OM is wrong and the thing will actually create a huge black-hole).

Why couldn't they have waited 100 years and done it outside our solar system for gods sake?

It is very irresponsible to risk the entire planet just to recreate some tiny ancient particles.

[anomaly]

Why couldn't they have waited 100 years and done it outside our solar system for gods sake?

It is very irresponsible to risk the entire planet just to recreate some tiny ancient particles.

I'd probably be dead before then anyways.  I don't want to wait that long.

For science!

[Feared_1]

Particles are constantly smashing into eachother in nature. This thing is safe, we're all safe.

Have a look:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080910-collider-success.html

[CivBase]

I'm religious, and because "no man shall know the end of the earth," so long as people keep predicting it's end, I feel safe

[mrtwosheds]

I think that is scheduled for late October. So we have just over a month to smuggle a nuke into Switzerland and blow this baby to ashes before it kills the lot of us. (Assuming OM is wrong and the thing will actually create a huge black-hole).

Why couldn't they have waited 100 years and done it outside our solar system for gods sake?

It is very irresponsible to risk the entire planet just to recreate some tiny ancient particles.

Probably because they are aware that there is no risk at all of this happening.
There have been quite a few theory's about "black holes" since they were first observed, many of them are just total fantasy, I do wish we could loose the "hole" part of the name it is very misleading.

[VSMIT]

Yeah, it's not much of a hole, more of a well.

VSMIT.

[mrtwosheds]

Far more likely to be extremely solid.

[Warfreak]

They hope to find out about anti-matter and dark matter with an atom smasher / atom collider? Someone care to elaborate?

[Nielk1]

I used to think they were breaking protons apart, then I though what they are doing is smashing them together so they can become energy and form into a new particle.


EDIT:
Changed fact like 2nd statement that was wrong.
Turns out it was the first.
OPS.

[bigbadbogie]

...And hoping that this new particle won't melt the whole universe.

[OvermindDL1]

Not form into a new particle, they are smashing protons and other things to break them apart to release the particles that make up those bigger particles like protons.

And no, they will not 'melt the universe' according to any known established theory.  But thinking along those lines, enjoy this story.
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[bigbadbogie]

Lol!! .. .. what can I say..??

Whoops.

[BS-er]

Do not forget though, we are circling a black hole right now.  The center of our galaxy (and thought to be the center of most massive galaxies as well) has been proven to be a super-massive black hole.  We are beyond the wake though, being on one of the outer arms that is, so we would not get sucked in, in however many billions of years, instead we will fly out of the galaxy.

Well the Andomeda galaxy is headed or way, with an even bigger supermassive black hole.  We stand a chance of being flung toward the center of our galaxy when our galaxies merge.  Wouldn't that be fun .

[bigbadbogie]

WEEEEEEE!!!