anyone got some worth reading thoughts on this http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-collider13apr13,0,7765588.story
Kellanved;1777547; said:Well, guys, just so happens that i am in a doctoral program for nuclear physics at the university of Washington. While the whole black hole thing isn't exactly my field of expertise, I'm hopefully going to be doing fusion research for energy purposes, I can assure you that there is really no risk of creating a black hole. Most of the issues that come up with the black holes is actually a misunderstanding. Basically the idea of the set of collisions that are being done in Geneva is to do what has already been done in ring colliders in the past, but with significantly higher energy. According to standard model, this should result in a Higgs boson, which would allow us to combine the electromagnetic, and weak nuclear forces, which along with gravity would allow us to explain what is happening at the origin of black holes, and of course, the real duzy, the initial particle of the big bang. What people forget is that, while yes, this would be part of a black hole, there isn't actually enough mass in our entire solar system to create a black hole. Additionally most scientist who are working on this project don't believe that the standard model will hold up under the higher energy that they intend to test this summer. This would basically relegate the standard model to the same position as newtons laws. Great for normal circumstances, but not exactly accurate at the extremes.
I hope this puts some of your fears to rest.
Kellanved;1777547; said:Well, guys, just so happens that i am in a doctoral program for nuclear physics at the university of Washington. While the whole black hole thing isn't exactly my field of expertise, I'm hopefully going to be doing fusion research for energy purposes, I can assure you that there is really no risk of creating a black hole. Most of the issues that come up with the black holes is actually a misunderstanding. Basically the idea of the set of collisions that are being done in Geneva is to do what has already been done in ring colliders in the past, but with significantly higher energy. According to standard model, this should result in a Higgs boson, which would allow us to combine the electromagnetic, and weak nuclear forces, which along with gravity would allow us to explain what is happening at the origin of black holes, and of course, the real duzy, the initial particle of the big bang. What people forget is that, while yes, this would be part of a black hole, there isn't actually enough mass in our entire solar system to create a black hole. Additionally most scientist who are working on this project don't believe that the standard model will hold up under the higher energy that they intend to test this summer. This would basically relegate the standard model to the same position as newtons laws. Great for normal circumstances, but not exactly accurate at the extremes.
I hope this puts some of your fears to rest.