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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:41 am    Post subject: Earth swalloed by black hole! Reply with quote

In today's NYT, a must read article about two men in Hawaii who want to stop the LHC experiment. "Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More".

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Linky to the article
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dr. Arkani-Hamed wrote:
There is some minuscule probability, he said, “the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”
OMG! Shocked
We're all going to end up as Dragon Droppings!!! Embarassed
We have to stop these loonies..... Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, John, should have thought of that myself
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sir Furry Mark wrote:
Dr. Arkani-Hamed wrote:
There is some minuscule probability, he said, “the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”
OMG! Shocked
We're all going to end up as Dragon Droppings!!! Embarassed
We have to stop these loonies..... Rolling Eyes



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If they're that loonie we should be encouraging them all the way Razz

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bellator wrote:
Thanks, John, should have thought of that myself


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

interesting! Smile

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Physics News 512, November 15, 2000


PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 512 November 15, 2000 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein**


November 2000

STRANGELETS ARE STRANGE BUT NOT DANGEROUS. Strangelets are hypothetical stable or semi-stable particles which contain strange quarks. Theorists have predicted that such entities could survive for long periods inside neutron stars and might be produced in the type of heavy ion collisions going on at the RHIC machine at Brookhaven. Fears that the production of strangelets would lead to some runaway reaction in which more and more ordinary matter would be turned into strange matter, with catastrophic effects for our planet, have been largely dispelled (Dar et al., Physics Letters B, 16 December 1999; and Jaffe et al., Review of Modern Physics, Oct 2000; Select Articles) partly by pointing to the fact that nature has always been producing heavy-ion collisions in amid cosmic ray interactions. Any remaining doubts over the strangelet danger have now been put to rest by Jes Madsen (45-8942- 3670, jesm@ifa.au.dk) of the University of Aarhus in Denmark. Madsen shows that light strangelets are highly unstable, heavy strangelets are difficult to make in the fireball environment of the collision, and medium-sized strangelets must have a positive charge, which precludes (through electrostatic repulsion) their assimilating any nearby (similarly positively charged) nuclear matter into a larger agglomeration. (Physical Review Letters, 27 November 2000; Select Articles.)


** Somehow I don't think this is the "Expelled!" Ben Stein.


More on Strangelets here: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jholden/strange/strange.html
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