The Large Hadron Collider, what do u guys think?

[CheesyErwin]

I apologize for my stupidity, but I really wanted to ask, what does this Large Hardon Collider do? Skimming the wiki page doesn't give me any idea of it.
The only thing I know is it's related to the manipulation of antimatter. (I think I had seen it before on a documentry about explosives.)

Edit:For what I know about the antimatter, is that when it contacts with any matter, they would consume(I don't know if "consume is the right word for it) each other and would release pure energy.

[Exethalion]

I apologize for my stupidity, but I really wanted to ask, what does this Large Hardon Collider do? Skimming the wiki page doesn't give me any idea of it.

Collide Hadrons (mesons and baryons, basically particles like protons) into each other at near the speed of light. The resulting impact is supposed to be similar to conditions just after the big bang, and detectors record the information. It'll also spawn new particles and stuff. More than anything it's a jack of all trades, loads of answers should come out of it in due time.

[CheesyErwin]

I apologize for my stupidity, but I really wanted to ask, what does this Large Hardon Collider do? Skimming the wiki page doesn't give me any idea of it.

Collide Hadrons (mesons and baryons, basically particles like protons) into each other at near the speed of light. The resulting impact is supposed to be similar to conditions just after the big bang, and detectors record the information. It'll also spawn new particles and stuff. More than anything it's a jack of all trades, loads of answers should come out of it in due time.

I see, so in this process, it has possibities to produce mirco black holes though the collision of the particles?

[Anna]

I see, so in this process, it has possibities to produce mirco black holes though the collision of the particles?

A tiny, 1 in 50 million chance, yes. As Stephen Hawking has observed, though, collisions such as these happen in Earth's atmosphere fairly regularly. So there is essentially zero risk of anything bad happening due to the LHC. It simply won't happen.

[Deltaflyer]

Its a simple internet rumor that a black hole will form. Everyone at school was screaming "WERE GONNA DIE" at the top of their lungs on the day it was activated... lol

[CheesyErwin]

Though LHC might not be able to produce a mirco black hole, but through this process, can create antimatter particles (Bash me if I am wrong. I am no good with science.) which can be manipulated as some sort of weapon of mass destruction. But would the LHC has the ability to produce a sufficent amount of antimatter particles?

(This question might seem extraordinarily silly, but it might be something that worth to discuss/debate for.)

[Anna]

Though LHC might not be able to produce a mirco black hole, but through this process, can create antimatter particles (Bash me if I am wrong. I am no good with science.) which can be manipulated as some sort of weapon of mass destruction. But would the LHC has the ability to produce a sufficent amount of antimatter particles?

I really want to bash you. But I won't, because it's not entirely your fault that you're so ignorant on the subject. Yes, the collisions will likely produce anti-matter. But you don't seem to get it: It's colliding sub-atomic particles together. That means there will be a FUCKING TINY amount of antimatter produced from said collision. And when I say fucking tiny, I mean so goddamn small you probably couldn't see it with the naked eye. This is not an impressive amount of anti-matter, and it's certainly not the stuff of WMDs. A stick of TNT would have more explosive power to it.

EDIT: Fun fact! Antimatter is said to be the most expensive substance in existence, with an estimated cost of $300 billion per milligram.

[Pyront]

Its a simple internet rumor that a black hole will form. Everyone at school was screaming "WERE GONNA DIE" at the top of their lungs on the day it was activated... lol

Lots of people were talking about it at school, with lots of different rumors, but most people wer'nt shouting WERE GONNA DIE.

[CheesyErwin]

Though LHC might not be able to produce a mirco black hole, but through this process, can create antimatter particles (Bash me if I am wrong. I am no good with science.) which can be manipulated as some sort of weapon of mass destruction. But would the LHC has the ability to produce a sufficent amount of antimatter particles?

I really want to bash you. But I won't, because it's not entirely your fault that you're so ignorant on the subject. Yes, the collisions will likely produce anti-matter. But you don't seem to get it: It's colliding sub-atomic particles together. That means there will be a FUCKING TINY amount of antimatter produced from said collision. And when I say fucking tiny, I mean so goddamn small you probably couldn't see it with the naked eye. This is not an impressive amount of anti-matter, and it's certainly not the stuff of WMDs. A stick of TNT would have more explosive power to it.

EDIT: Fun fact! Antimatter is said to be the most expensive substance in existence, with an estimated cost of $300 billion per milligram.

Thanks for the explaination, I think I've got a lecture on quantum physics and chemistry here.

[T-002]

It's all a bit stupid anyway. If the chance of creating black holes were so big, then surely the scientists, the ones who know of its inner workings, wouldn't risk it.

I just love how most people show their herd-mentality by going with anything and making a fuss.

[Da_Higg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Larg ... n_Collider

Despite the LHC breaking, they still wan't to make this.

[Elvin]

I don't see why you said " despite"- the LHC broke, big deal. It'll be working again in a month or two, it's a bit of lost time. And it's natural to want to build bigger stuff- as technology improves, bigger things become possible, so more things are discovered with the better materials. Science is a continual loop.

[T-002]

If it keeps growing and growing, then it's not exactly a loop, is it?

More like a stack.

"Well we can't go calling it a science stack, now can we?"

[antisocialmunky]

Its more like a series of loops created by a series of tubes:



All this because Gravity showed up to the party ridiculously earlier than everyone else.