Large Hadron Collider attempts to make contact with additional dimensions

[TAZ]

I'm no physics expert but I don't believe this is how black holes work. Maybe for a couple tenths of a second it will be similar to this but nothing long term we could benefit from.

Why do you have to be such a downer? If skijunkie becomes the Flash how do you know we won't have any long term benefits from that???


Seriously though how do you k is we wouldn't benefit from learning something. And also it won't be tenth's of second. I'm betting nanoseconds or less.

[Jer]

Why do you have to be such a downer? If skijunkie becomes the Flash how do you know we won't have any long term benefits from that???


Seriously though how do you k is we wouldn't benefit from learning something. And also it won't be tenth's of second. I'm betting nanoseconds or less.

Oh, I know. That was me trying not to be such a downer.

[SteyrAUG]

As if anything we do on this lonely little planet could significantly affect the entire universe. People really have no concept of scale.

The LHC does create black holes, they are just very, very small and decay out of existence really, really quickly.

Good post, Will.

Yep, they would have to produce a black hole that was actually sustainable, would really suck if they produced a softball sized one, but even if they did create a black hole that consumed the entire planet, it still wouldn't have much impact on everything else. We have super massive black holes at the center of every galaxy.

[skijunkie55]

Why do you have to be such a downer? If skijunkie becomes the Flash how do you know we won't have any long term benefits from that???


Seriously though how do you k is we wouldn't benefit from learning something. And also it won't be tenth's of second. I'm betting nanoseconds or less.

Yeah! If this thing explodes and we have hundreds of super powered meta humans running around we will need the Flash! Or the reverse flash... or something.

Regardless of TV/comic book fantasy, all this talk of god particles and creating black holes, the patent Boeing just filed for a force field... It's crazy cool stuff. Hopefully we don't all die from it

[jpmuscle]

Yeah! If this thing explodes and we have hundreds of super powered meta humans running around we will need the Flash! Or the reverse flash... or something.

Regardless of TV/comic book fantasy, all this talk of god particles and creating black holes, the patent Boeing just filed for a force field... It's crazy cool stuff. Hopefully we don't all die from it

Hell, I just hope we live long enough to see all this stuff come to fruition. I want my real life Star trek now dammit.

[WillBrink]

Hell, I just hope we live long enough to see all this stuff come to fruition. I want my real life Star trek now dammit.

"Beam me up Mr Scott, there's no intelligent life here"

[lunchbox]

Hell, I just hope we live long enough to see all this stuff come to fruition. I want my real life Star trek now dammit.

Hell, I just want the rocket packs and flying cars they promised my grandfather.

[sevenhelmet]

I just want our grandkids to grow up in a world where they can freely wonder and investigate things, and think about how quaint we were that we thought a particle accelerator would endanger humanity.

[jpmuscle]

I just want our grandkids to grow up in a world where they can freely wonder and investigate things, and think about how quaint we were that we thought a particle accelerator would endanger humanity.

Reminds me of the folks who thought the first A bomb test would destroy the planet or ignite the atmosphere.

[SteyrAUG]

Reminds me of the folks who thought the first A bomb test would destroy the planet or ignite the atmosphere.

I'm pretty sure that was actually a wager among a couple Los Alamos scientists. And while they couldn't be 100% certain they "wouldn't" ignite the atmosphere, all of the people who died from radiation exposure and other unexpected things does demonstrate that we sometimes jump in without knowing exactly and completely what we are doing. Granted we were trying to get a weapon into the war as fast as possible.

That said, it was a sucker bet. If you think it will destroy the world and you win, you still lose.

More importantly, as impressive as the LHC is, I don't think we've created anything that would actually get away from us and destroy the planet. Even if we attempted to build something that would do exactly that, I don't think it could be done. We are probably far more at risk of creating true AI than producing a planet sucking black hole or opening up a new dimension.