Strangelets produced in the LHC.
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shinji_ikari
Mustn't Run Away...
I was lurking around the internet when I came across an "article" (http://www.jungleapocalypse.com/headline/cern-affirms-lhc-has-70-chances-to-produce-strangelets-on-119/) that discussed that the LHC had a 70% chance of producing strangelets in the upcoming month before its shut down. The LHC for those who don't know is this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider) ,and strangelets are this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet) now all that said for those who haven't been following the reports released by CERN the organization running the LHC they had reported that NO strangelets should form ,and even if they should they would be unstable based upon their understanding of studies ,on a theoretical subject. My question ,and point of discussion is this, do you believe strangelets pose any threat to the planet ,as some people do ,or do you believe anything produced will be totally safe ,and unstable thus harmless.Also what is your opinion on sciences right to push forward into the field of science without a safety net ? Are we all headed for an early demise of our planet ,due to our curiosity ?
Side Note: I realize the experiment began the 9th ,and nothing has occured.
Side Note: I realize the experiment began the 9th ,and nothing has occured.
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you have a better chance of being killed by and orbital bombardment of feathers than the LHC causing ANY global problems. the LHC can propel particles near C velocities. on top of that these particles can carry a potential energy of 7 tera electron volts. i know, hard to really comprehend, but just think STUPID FAST AND STUPID STRONG. with all that being said, the stranglets pose earth no threat. the planet is actually being bombarded by far higher energies every day all the time. we just have a hard time getting a detector sensitive enough (and small enough) into orbit to see these events.
if you want a real simple explenation of all this, listen to the podcast "Skeptoid #109: Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the Earth?". the link to the episode, transcript of the episode, references, and discussions can all be found here "will the large hardron collider destroy the earth?"
if you want a real simple explenation of all this, listen to the podcast "Skeptoid #109: Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the Earth?". the link to the episode, transcript of the episode, references, and discussions can all be found here "will the large hardron collider destroy the earth?"
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Flaser
OCD Hentai Collector
Waffles246 wrote...
I think negative or anti matter has a higher chance of our own doomsday.We already produced and stored anti matter previously.
The reason you might think that is since nuclear fuel is so potent... yeah, microprograms of fissionables have a lot of energy in them. Anti-matter even more so...
...however these are macroscopic quantities. Entires moles of matter. We've never made that much anti-matter before and likely won't for several decades if not centuries.
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What the LHC can make with atomic collisions has already been made by processes occuring in the atmosphere at much larger scope, producing far more products, and is done at much higher energy levels. It occurs when solar wind hits the Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, and some of it shows up as auroras.
All this fear around the LHC is just what it is: fear. It's the same reason that lead to the witch hunt. People fear the unknown, be it what they can't know, or what they never saw. So when they see healers with their elixers that can do so much things that they never saw before, they reacted with awe and fear, and burn them to get rid of the uncomfortable fear so that the world they knew may return to stability. If we brought a modern day scientist back to the mediveal ages, no doubt it'll end with something related to sharp objects and fire.
If you actually understood the actual facts behind it, you'll realize there not much to fear, since the LHC is meant to find these "stranglets" and other exotic particles, as it'll lead to a better understanding of the properties of elementary matter and fundemental forces. This will ultimately allow us to form a "theory of everything", which at the moment, is the imperfect string theory.
So as wisemens say: knowledge is the bane of fear and evil.
All this fear around the LHC is just what it is: fear. It's the same reason that lead to the witch hunt. People fear the unknown, be it what they can't know, or what they never saw. So when they see healers with their elixers that can do so much things that they never saw before, they reacted with awe and fear, and burn them to get rid of the uncomfortable fear so that the world they knew may return to stability. If we brought a modern day scientist back to the mediveal ages, no doubt it'll end with something related to sharp objects and fire.
If you actually understood the actual facts behind it, you'll realize there not much to fear, since the LHC is meant to find these "stranglets" and other exotic particles, as it'll lead to a better understanding of the properties of elementary matter and fundemental forces. This will ultimately allow us to form a "theory of everything", which at the moment, is the imperfect string theory.
So as wisemens say: knowledge is the bane of fear and evil.