I don't think that was covered in my college physics textbook.

Anywho, I'm absolutely going to add their feed as a widget on my blog.

    " I'm absolutely going to add their feed as a widget on my blog."

I think you'll find the same guys that constantly blog about the world ending are the same ones that believe the government* is trying to steal our thoughts, so the only way to prevent that is by wearing tin foil hats.

I've read this same doom and gloom argument before, during the Manhattan Project when a physicist named Edward Teller raised concerns that a nuclear reaction could ignite the atmosphere, which was later disproven.

The adding of the widget is more or less a joke as I found the site amusing.

(*Government may refer to many different organisations, US gov, illuminati etc...)

Anyway, can I have like $1_000_000 VC now? It's social!

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  document.write("YUP.");
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http://madsci.org/posts/archives/mar2000/952639215.Ph.r.html

Why is this even a question?

The results of the LHC experiments will (hopefully) give us answers about assumptions in the Standard Model of physics and a load of theoretical speculations besides.

The results will allow us to interpret measurements already taken in a new light and will alter the means by which we measure (and/or interpret) things in the future.

The LHC experiment will not end the world, nor will it suddenly give us all flying jet cars.

It will (again, hopefully) advance our knowledge of the universe we live in.

Commercial interests are not a factor. Why do people keep moaning about the price tag and speculating on the industrial aspects when they're not busy predicting the end of the world?

Maybe because billions of dollars of taxpayer money are being used to fund this project. You can spend your own money however you want, but if you want public funding, you will have to put up with questions about whether this expenditure will actually make the world a better place for ordinary people.

Strange how no one seemed to care how much money the War in Iraq would cost, or whether spending that many trillions is justified, but 4 billion to do what is vital for our existence, that of knowledge for the sake of knowledge, needs justification.

For the cost of Iraq we could have skipped a couple generations of particle accelerator. At this rate of Science funding it'll be 100 years until we build the planetary scale accelerator to test string theory.

I cared; I think it's an absurd waste of money. I think all forms of governmental spending need justification. That's what fiscal responsibility is about.

Because not everyone is a physicist.

Assuming it didn't evaporate and started out at rest, it'd presumably fall straight through the floor, picking up mass as it went, but I'm not sure exactly how much. Once it got to the core it would overshoot, hollowing out a bit more of the core, but some kind of drag would eventually slow it down, leaving it in some kind of oddly-shaped cavity near the core. I have no idea whether this would wind up stable, but I'm guessing that eventually the core would collapse towards it, and once it started losing its structure the whole planet would collapse in.

But I have no idea how long all this would take. Minutes? Hours? Years?

Perhaps you could give it a charge (by firing electrons at it) and then confine it electrostatically or magnetically.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/70q4l/live_lhc_w...

LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Anyways, where would all the matter come from to make it have so much force?

That site is just spreading FUD.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM