Hadron collider "Doomsday" didn't happen...

[Pirate Yarr]

Quote from romanus:

... when a strangelet comes in contact with a lump of ordinary matter such as Earth, it could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter. This "ice-nine" disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.

This is not a concern for strangelets in cosmic rays because they are produced far from Earth and have had time to decay to their ground state, which is predicted by most models to be positively charged, so they are electrostatically repelled by nuclei, and would rarely merge with them. But high-energy collisions could produce negatively charged strangelet states which live long enough to interact with the nuclei of ordinary matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet

Let's all pray that 6b $ won't be enough to buy some negatively charged strangelets, which could f*ck up everything.

The scientists have been building up to this for many years, for payback to the world, for decades of wedgies in school. The Hadron collider is a way all the scientists of the world say f*ck you to the humanity in the form of a giant payback wedgie to the planet

 

[intradaybill]

Quote from TIKITRADER:

http://www.vr.se/mainmenu/pressandn...filmelectrons.5.6f6ddf01189d73e593800057.html

Paranoid. What they "see" is not an electron but the trace such a "particle" leaves on their recording apparatus. According to quantum mechanics, this trace or image is affected by the observation and observer. So what they "see" is a mixture of an electron and the observer expectation of what an electron looks like.

 

[romanus]

Quote from Pirate Yarr:

The scientists have been building up to this for many years, for payback to the world, for decades of wedgies in school. The Hadron collider is a way all the scientists of the world say f*ck you to the humanity in the form of a giant payback wedgie to the planet

You may be giving too much credit to the geeks. They already tried f*cking up Van Allen belts but found that destroying Earth is not that easy. We may have more to fear from global warming caused by SUV driving soccer MILFS than from mad scientists.

 

[twofacedjoker]

Quote from romanus:

You may be giving too much credit to the geeks. They already tried f*cking up Van Allen belts but found that destroying Earth is not that easy. We may have more to fear from global warming caused by SUV driving soccer MILFS than from mad scientists.

There are SUVs on Mars? Who would have thought.

 

[shortie]

Quote from Pirate Yarr:

The scientists have been building up to this for many years, for payback to the world, for decades of wedgies in school. The Hadron collider is a way all the scientists of the world say f*ck you to the humanity in the form of a giant payback wedgie to the planet

check your spelling: Hardon, not Hadron

a giant payback wedgie to the planet

 

[stevegee58]

Quote from shortie:

by the way, does anybody know why they call it 'Hardon Collider'?

Cuz the Fitzgerald Contraction will make your "shortie" into a "longie"

 

[Cutten]

Some pics along with a suitable soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1V3nIeptxg

 

[shortie]

Quote from stevegee58:

Cuz the Fitzgerald Contraction will make your "shortie" into a "longie"

good stuff!

 

[shortie]

Quote from stevegee58:

Cuz the Fitzgerald Contraction will make your "shortie" into a "longie"

it seems with Fitzgerald Contraction only the shrinkage is possible

L'=L*SQRT(1-v^2/c^2)

 

[stevegee58]

It depends on the observer's frame of reference. Bwaahaha.