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2511 wrote:
do you know anything about the “Large Hadron Collider”?

The Hadron Collider is a Swiss particle accelerator which was developed, according to a special I watched on the History channe, in order to test the “standard model” of particle physics which stops being technically accurate, we believe, at higher energy levels, in the same way that the usual physics stops being accurate when you measure things on a subatomic level. I believe the standard model is a set of rules describing how subatomic particles interact with eachother.

Is there anything specific you’d like to know about the collider itself?

2511 wrote:
do you know anything about the “Large Hadron Collider”?

I hate you so much, helpbot.

Xaos wrote:

2511 wrote:
do you know anything about the “Large Hadron Collider”?

The Hadron Collider is a Swiss particle accelerator which was developed, according to a special I watched on the History channe, in order to test the “standard model” of particle physics which stops being technically accurate, we believe, at higher energy levels, in the same way that the usual physics stops being accurate when you measure things on a subatomic level. I believe the standard model is a set of rules describing how subatomic particles interact with eachother. Is there anything specific you’d like to know about the collider itself?

Hey, neat, I found a new special about the collider: youtube.com/watch?v=_fJ6PMfnz2E

2511 wrote:
Actually the Hawking Radiation is what interests me…
That things that prevents the Large Hadron Collider from killing us all?

ah, the “black hole radiation”.

Here’s the deal

There’s a bunch of people (probably the same people telling us global warming will kill us all - tomorrow) going around sensationalizing the idea that the LHC could create a black hole that could absorb the world and kill us all.
Such a black hole, with such little mass to start it off (what would be referred to as a micro black hole… or something like that) would be subject to hawking radiation (which is a controversial theory, and many deny that it exists, but it seems to stand up to scrutiny but then again we may just not to be able to scrutinize it thoroughly enough, but I digress)
anywya, hawking radiation implies that a micro black hole would simply dissipate into nothingness. Even if hawking was wrong about the radiation thing, it’s still unlikely that that particular micro black hole would be able to absorb enough mass quickly enough or with enough force to grow as fast as it would still break down (even without hawking radiation).

now let’s pretend the black hole forms, and doesn’t disappear. just for a second.
so what?
a black holes “sucking” ability is based on its’ overall mass, right?
and when you’re talking about the LHC, you’re talking about subatomic particles with VIRTUALLY no mass!
So you’re realistically talking about a black hole smaller than an atom with very little ability, if any at all, to pull anything in to it.

We could build a theme park around it.

2511 wrote:
lolHow old are you?andAre you studying anything?

double lol,
I’m 20,
and I’m studying everything
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
http://education-portal.com/articles/…
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-0…
http://open.yale.edu/courses/courses….

the first and last links are my favorite.
If you check our Berkeley you HAVE to see Prof. Muller’s “Physics for Future Presidents” course. It’s a bit low-tier, but MAN, is he a good educator. Very entertaining.

Crapshit. I just realized i forgot to mention the Higgs particle.
It’s the only particle predicted by the standard model I mentioned before that we haven’t seen before.
The Higs particle, which is a boson.. or was it fermion….

………..
Boson.
It was a boson.

anyway, the Higgs Boson gives mass to a bunch of otherwise massless subatomic particles when organized into matter.
Or something like that…… I think I should go read something on it now.

………and for clarification that’s one of the things they’re looking for with the LHC

I really need to figure out how to edit my posts……..

indeed.