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Funding black holes at CERN
Sneak as been pondering the IT infrastructure at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and is warning PR firms whose clients have kit installed there to get those press releases in quick, before the avalanche that is bound to occur just before the apparatus fires up in July occurs.
The reason being that there are prophets of doom out there predicting that when LHC fires up, it will create a ‘strangelet’ – a mini-black hole if you will – that will quickly devour all human life forms on earth – and Boris Johnson. Ironic really, considering all those stories about black holes in UK science funding – who’d have thought that we were actually funding black hole creation – literally. Still, it might answer the age old question of whether there are other intelligent life forms in the universe. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) project may be drawing a blank because when the unknowing extraterrestrials get to the evolutionary stage where they can transmit their presence to the rest of the universe, firing up their LHC equivalents quickly turns off their broadcasts.
One can imagine the Omnipresent Being responsible for the creation of the universe chalking off the civilisations firing up LHCs, on his/her/its map of the universe – with the dulcet tones of Freddie Mercury hammering out Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ in the background.
1) are we dead already?...without a gravitational field we dont hold a linear reality effectively..so perhaps the LHC worked perfectly, and we passed seamlessly into a probable reality. The world was flat once...that was Law. Beyond theory. Funding levels for a non profitable process of experimentation of this kind are powerfully irrational given the levels of debt many of these participating countries economies hold. Glad Austria has had its economic arm twisted and exposed its 'human'
priorities at last. quantum physics tells us that the present is the only reality that truly exists. all other 'moments' are subjective...and schrodengers cat will remind us that what we expect will shape the destiny of outcome...so hypotheticals are potentials. scientists will create their reality eventually. Pointless. Reality is an illusion...albeit a sufficient one.
Posted by Mark | May 17, 2009 1:03 PM
The truth is out there.
And if they're lucky the truth might be in the donut at CERN too.
Question is will other X-file-esque creatures also be found!!
Posted by Mike Gale | September 11, 2008 12:55 AM
What it is like to work here
The following quote is from a blog at Cernwatch.com, apparently from an insider at CERN LHC:
'I am writing this blog becuase I am seeing some strange things that I have not seen before. I notice higher levels of security, and more US military presence. I hear strange rumors and weird Jokes. I think that there is more going on that what is being let out. i will report to you everything I hear and see.'
Link to the complete blog message:
http://www.cernwatch.com/2008/04/hello.html
This is a quote from http://www.notepad.ch
Posted by activ8 | April 28, 2008 9:58 PM
The haunted house comparison is very close to what particle physics is. Ever since 1930 there have been bumps of energy measured when ordinary atoms have been spun up to speed and smacked together. Live in an old house long enough and every little bump will have a name and an imaginary character. Live in the world of particle physics and you will believe every little energy bump is real.
They have one thing in common, no evidence. Not once has there been a single extra bit of matter left over from any of their experiments. After all the stuff quarks, bosons and whatever there is no matter created. They claim to create particles and there is no evidence.
They have lost stuff though. It has disappeared out from within a sealed chamber designed to measure bumps. The only thing is they don't know where it went to.
Even the physics is still in question and the theories contradict each other. Now to compare the energy:- it takes a few kilos of uranium to make a neat little bomb big enough to damage a city. If you could combine a golf ball size container of the stuff being produced at CERN the explosion on earth would knock the moon out of it orbit.
So long as particle physics doesn't create that other thing in common with haunted houses, a world of ghosts.
Michael.
Posted by Michael Noonan | April 28, 2008 12:19 PM
Funny, but probably true!
Posted by Ann Hedonia | April 28, 2008 3:03 AM
Yep! Might explain why we haven't contacted any alien life out there.
Maybe that's just the way of the universe, blowing ourselves up. Technology has already screwed up this planet beyond repair, so why not end it all today instead of dragging this slow death out.
Posted by Adam | April 26, 2008 3:37 AM
THE MOST PROBABLE SIDE-EFFECT AT CERN LHC, THEORETICALLY SHOULD BE: A 200-400 TeV QUANTUM INVERSION INDUCTION WAVE FUNCTION WORMHOLE. THIS SHOULD BACKWASH FROM IMPACT TARGET COORDINATES, THROUGH THE SUPER-CONDUCTORS ARRAY ELECTROMAGNETICALLY, AND CLOSE A CAUSALITY-LOOP COMPLETED AT THE HADRON UNIT. RELATIVISTIC SHIFTS SHOULD LAST 12-30 HOURS, AT A 30-60 MILE PERIMETER RANGE; AFTER AUTO-EMERGENCY SHUT-DOWN OF CERN LHC COMPLEX. TIME DILATION IS ANALOGOUS TO A NUCLEAR DETONATION, DUE TO ACCELERATION BENDING OF TIME/SPACE! THE HIGGS PARTICLE WOULD BE ONLY A SECONDARY DISCOVERY, WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORK PROBABILITY!
Posted by Robert I. Marsh II | April 25, 2008 9:01 PM
Yes, this may be the IQ test for advancement of a species. Before you may advanced to Star Trek level of science, you must first NOT create microblackholes on your own planet. Only then are you permitted to advance to the next level. Our chances at the moment of us passing this IQ test look very iffy...
CERNs web site states that we have not been destroyed by effects of cosmic rays and micro black holes will evaporate.
However, cosmic rays strike relatively stationary objects and results travel too fast to be captured by Earths gravity, while colliders smash particles head on, may focus all energy to a single point and can be captured by Earths gravity. Einsteins relativity theory predicts that micro black holes will not decay but instead only grow, and Hawking Radiation contradicts relativity, is unproven and is credibly disputed by at least 3 peer reviewed studies.
The LHC Safety Assessment Group has been trying for months to prove safety without success. However science may still be a few years away from being able to prove safety or not.
Professor Dr. Otto E. Roessler, Theorist Dr. Raj Baldev and others are warning of a very real, very possible, very present danger to the planet from the Large Hadron Collider.
If this experiment is so safe, why arent CERN scientists allowed to express any personal fears they might have about this Collider?
Alleged in the legal action: Chief Scientific Officer, Mr. Engelen passed an internal memorandum to workers at CERN, asking them, regardless of personal opinion, to affirm in all interviews that there were no risks involved in the experiments, changing the previous assertion of minimal risk. (Statisticians generally consider minimal risk as 1-10%).
Previous safety studies (http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/docs/rhicreport.pdf) ruled out any possibility of creating microblackholes in a collider. But predictions have changed and CERN has estimated the possibility of creating 1 microblackhole per second in the Large Hadron Collider. No peer reviewed safety study has ever been produced that I am aware of that speaks to the safety of creating microblackholes on Earth.
If we delay for a safety study, some scientists at CERN may not be the first to discover some new science, and some Nobel prizes may be at stake.
But which would more wise, conduct a full and independent adversarial peer reviewed safety study first, or just turn it on now and discover science as quickly as humanly possible?
JTankers
LHCConcerns.com
Posted by JTankers | April 25, 2008 6:58 PM