This $6 billion engineering wonder can create black holes!! Discovery or doom?

[Retrochink]

14 years in the making and i don't even know such thing exist! should i say wow?

 

"Will the Large Hadron Collider save the world, or destroy it?

 

As the atom-smasher at Europe's CERN research center is readied for its official startup on Wednesday, researchers might wish that the general public was captivated by the quest for the Higgs boson, the search for supersymmetric particles and even the evidence for extra dimensions.

 

But if the feedback so far is any guide, the real headline-grabber is the claim that the world's most powerful particle-smasher could create microscopic black holes that some fear would gobble up the planet...."

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556999/

[Deathism]

imagine the amount of power needed for this thing..

 

heck..they might use nuclear power..

 

 

 

 

 

but..man..im skeptical about this thing..one wrong thing..and it might end up like "Black Mesa" in "Half Life"

 

hahha.

[Shull]

this is the same thing as the first nuke back in 1945..no one know exactly how it will work..

[Chowyunfatt]

Wah Lau...Looks like something that came out from a Sci-Fi Movie...*Star Gate*

[T_k_w]

Actually they know how it works, uses electro magnets(gigantic) to contain and bend the paths of 2 streams of particles (1 going clockwise, the other anti-clockwise) and allow them to collide at data collection chamber.

 

They just don't know what it does.(during the collision)

[T_k_w]

Stargate how to compare? that one is built in a mountain, this is built underneath a town that is 17 miles in diameter.

[Xtrider82]

Yeah, those scientists at CERN might end up being too smart for their own good and end up opening a portal that starts summoning god-knows-what into our world.

 

--> Reference to 'Doom I, II and III' (or 'Half Life' as mentioned)

 

Then we can start them back.

Anyone got the BFG2000?

[Babyckh]

ya...

 

i think they copied the concept from "Half-Life".

 

Now, where is Dr. Freeman?

[Stary]

Perhaps we should start playing Doom again to brush up our skills in case dunno what alien arrives.

[Peqasus]

seems like a classic script

 

Guy A: No , dun open, u will regret confirm!

Guy B: Activate sequence (#($*%$

Guy A: Nooooooooo.........

sxxt hits the fan....

Guy B: What have we done.......

Guy A: May God have mercy.....

 

Arnie/The Rock comes in....

[Karoon]

looks like we will all die tomorrow.

 

goodbye then forumers. It's been nice.

[Roborovskii]

Well, on the flipside of doomsday predictions - what happens if they discover a new form of transportation by bending space-time? Sorta like Monsters INC doors. No more oil cartels!

 

[Peqasus]

gahmen sure put ERP or Ezlink device on this kinda gateway one. but in scientific experiments, in many cases, they can only replicate wat nature has already been doing. except humans dunno yet. doomsday or not no one knows. scully elvis come back

[Nine_eleven]

spend so much money on this for F@#$?

 

could have saved half of africa from starving...

[Nolicense]

eh.. to them, save half of africa for what? this thing will advance their science and may lead to power and money for them, like nuclear bomb in WW2. it may be a total waste of mney also. feeding half of africa may double the number of illegal immigrants to europe. not everyone very charitable lar.

[Chisiang]

reminds me of Spider man where the scientist trying to harness the power of the sun by creating a mini sun in lab conditions... and he believes he knows what he is doing and "theoretically" nothing can go wrong... it's "under control"

 

can request Russia or China to nuke that device out of oblivion?