Pangloss Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 (edited) Consider the source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,483477,00.html Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted. Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer — perhaps even more than a second, a relative eternity in particle colliders, where most objects decay much faster. Which of course Fox News Channel digests to mean the following: If the worst comes to pass, and there's now a slightly greater chance that it might, at least it might explain why we've never heard from extraterrestrial civilizations: Maybe they built Large Hadron Colliders of their own. (sigh) Edited January 29, 2009 by Pangloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Skeptic Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 It appeared in New Scientist also. Here we go again:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empty Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Scientist of good looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisyphus Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has tried to blow the thing up to "save the world" yet. I mean, aren't there any angry, FOX News-equivalent watching mobs near the Franco-Swiss border? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john5746 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has tried to blow the thing up to "save the world" yet. I mean, aren't there any angry, FOX News-equivalent watching mobs near the Franco-Swiss border? ssshhh! The world ending is not a bad thing. It's part of the plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npts2020 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Woo-hoo, now we don't have to wait around for the degradation of our biosphere to gradually kill us, we can do it all in one fell swoop. Isn't doomerism great? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I can't follow how Fox news came to mean that... o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 You mean this massive leap in reasoning... If the worst comes to pass, and there's now a slightly greater chance that it might, at least it might explain why we've never heard from extraterrestrial civilizations: Maybe they built Large Hadron Colliders of their own. Either, the journalist is not being entirely serious with that statement, or they're an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUnknown Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 How many times is the public gonna freak out before they realize they're ignorant? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisyphus Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 How many times is the public gonna freak out before they realize they're ignorant? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnolp04 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 the biggest fear around the LHC is that the darn thing won't work at all, and might turn out to be a white elephant - anyone got any other ways of finding Higgs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvp45 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Isn't Fox News something like diet beer or Kosher ham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 It was kinda funny the first time, but I work in a very specific industry, and it's getting kind of annoying to pick up science publications to see "DOOM HAXORS" all over the place. If they manage to create a stable black hole that'll suck in the world, I at least wanna lick it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonstar57 Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 It was kinda funny the first time, but I work in a very specific industry, and it's getting kind of annoying to pick up science publications to see "DOOM HAXORS" all over the place. If they manage to create a stable black hole that'll suck in the world, I at least wanna lick it first. the frighting thing is that creating a stable black hole might earn them a Nobel prize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPanic Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has tried to blow the thing up to "save the world" yet. I mean, aren't there any angry, FOX News-equivalent watching mobs near the Franco-Swiss border? Well... the LHC was built in an underground lair for a reason. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 They're not trying to make black holes on Saturday, are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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