We're all gonna die on Saturday

[Phyco Cat]

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A glitch on the local news site. It's been fixed and now says it will be 64 where I am.

[Faye]

Lol...

[gamedude]

lol indeed.

[iceberg]

Shut up and die, pig disgusting American living in AMERIKKKAAAAA.

[Xenos Infinity]

no, we're going to die when they set off the LHC and it makes our very own portable black hole. except it won't be portable and we won't be around to celebrate, if it does.

[Phyco Cat]

May 1, 2008 6:27:49 GMT -5 iceberg said:

Shut up and die, pig disgusting American living in AMERIKKKAAAAA.

I smell a cooked not so smilely face.

[iceberg]

The LHC's black holes, if it even creates those, will be so small that they will in no way be able to devour the Earth. Most likely they would dissipate within seconds.

If by some way the LHC could create a blackhole that would be able to devour the Earth and NOT collapse, it would take, what, was it 50 months for it to fully eat Earth and then start to expand into the rest of the solar system?

[Faye]

I'm hotter than that so i'll survive.

[Drago Goldenwing]

The LHC is going to make Higgs bosons. Micro black holes out of the LHC are bunk.

Be more worried about strangelets.

[Xenos Infinity]

I'm no nuclear physicist >_> are we talking about Strange Quarks?

[iceberg]

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A strangelet or "strange nugget" is a hypothetical object consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. The size could be anything from a few femtometers across (with the mass of a light nucleus) to something much larger. Once the size becomes macroscopic (on the order of meters across), such an object is usually called a quark star or "strange star" rather than a strangelet. An equivalent description is that a strangelet is a small fragment of strange matter. The term "strangelet" originates with E. Farhi and R. Jaffe. Strangelets have been suggested as a dark matter candidate.

I'm no expert either, but isn't the worry with strangelets the thing that they could form something that is not around in our universe, and potentially frigging KILL US ALL?

[Drago Goldenwing]

I'm no expert either, or I'd still be in college, but the idea is that a Strangelet will strike the nucleus of an atom, and by various properties render the nucleus of the atom into another strangelet attached to the first, and the process simply continues until the strangelet runs out of nuclei to convert into more strange matter/eats the Earth and all things on it - solid, liquid, gas - until only cold dead vacuum stops it.

[xelemental]

May 1, 2008 4:27:11 GMT -5 gamedude said:

lol indeed.