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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Yeah... it's when they boost the anti-mass spectrometer 105% for the extra resolution... watch out for that.
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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Was slightly gutted to wake up this morning. Having broken up with my gf last week, crashed my car this week & seen my bank balence, a black hole would be a very good quick fix!

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by DataMatrix View Post
    21st October 2008 is the scheduled date for the first collisions.
    I hope we aren't going to have to go through all the apocalypse headlines again for that. 'End of the world!!! Again. We got it a bit wrong last time.'

    Quote Originally Posted by DataMatrix View Post
    It's ignorant to believe that something WILL happen. There are thousands of galaxies out there, if they'd created a collider as powerful as the LHC and had serious repurcussions wouldn't the galaxy have been gone now as Stephen Hawkings said?
    Why would a planet being swallowed up by a black hole result in a galaxy being destroyed? Even if this hypothetical black hole manages to swallow the whole solar system eventually it would still be completely insignificant on a galaxy level. The milky way could well be littered with black holes, they just orbit the supermassive one at the centre of the galaxy just like stars do.

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    Yeah... it's when they boost the anti-mass spectrometer 105% for the extra resolution... watch out for that.
    I will be giving it 110% of my undivided concentration.

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by Andehh View Post
    Was slightly gutted to wake up this morning. Having broken up with my gf last week, crashed my car this week & seen my bank balence, a black hole would be a very good quick fix!
    Look on the bright side: nobody loves you, you have no means of personal transport, you are skint and yet you still woke up albeit without a black hole.

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by Andehh View Post
    Was slightly gutted to wake up this morning. Having broken up with my gf last week, crashed my car this week & seen my bank balence, a black hole would be a very good quick fix!
    and to top it off you live in Coventry

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by GoNz0 View Post
    and to top it off you live in Coventry


    all you need is 5000 tins of black paint, to turn Coventry into a black HOLE.

    sorry it's unfair to slag off someones home town, without admitting your own home town is a dump, so i admit it Derby is a total dump as well!

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    i stand need talk then, im notts and have brought a house in derby

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by GoNz0 View Post
    i stand need talk then, im notts and have brought a house in derby
    sorry to go off topic, but im pritty sure if you have completed the purchase they aint gonna let you back over the border .

    Does anyone know why the speed of the particles cant quite reach the speed of light?
    Last edited by j1979; 11-09-2008 at 06:43 PM. Reason: im a moron

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    Sorry it's a bit late... only woke up alive at 3.30, and only then to go to work...

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Wonder if the effects of the LHC made England win last night?

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by j1979 View Post

    all you need is 5000 tins of black paint, to turn Coventry into a black HOLE.

    sorry it's unfair to slag off someones home town, without admitting your own home town is a dump, so i admit it Derby is a total dump as well!
    To misquote Viz, and to misunderstand completely Freddy Mercury's point, If fat-bottomed girls really do make the world go round, shouldn't CERN be located near Derby?

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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    I've been in Geneva since the 9th...haha!! Still a live it seems...


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    Re: Black hole doom for all on the 10th September?

    Quote Originally Posted by j1979 View Post
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    Does anyone know why the speed of the particles cant quite reach the speed of light?
    I'm no physicist, but I assume the answer to that will be the Special Theory of Relativity.

    Light (photons) are generally regarded (though it may be a bit of a simplification) as having no mass. Relativity suggests that mass increases as you approach the speed of light, and that the energy required to approach the speed of light also increases. Clearly, the mass of a sub-atomic particle is pretty tiny, but assuming that the implications of the Special Theory of Relativity are correct, then even that tiny mass is going to require, in effect, infinite energy to reach c. And as we can't supply limitless energy, we can't get even something as small in mass as a neutron to reach c. We can, it seems, get very, very close, though.

    And if anyone that actually knows what they're talking about can put it better than that, and they probably can, feel free.

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