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Peter_Dawson
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I say, “Yes, it is immoral to collide high energy streams of protons in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.”
I am a lawyer. But I know enough about particle physics to be aware that there is a danger that if those high energy proton streams are collided in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, protons will be collided with such incredible violence that they might form what might be referred to as a “Black Hole in Formation,” or “BHF.”
Collider scientists say that, indeed, their machine might form a black hole, but it will evaporate in less than a second due to something called “Hawking Radiation.”
I actually contacted one of the scientists peripherally related to the Collider experiment, and I proposed to him a very simple reason why black holes coming out of the collider won’t evaporate. (Something called “relativistic time dilation” freezes all black holes in the process of formation, so that they never quite finish forming, so that they never evaporate, so that they last as long as the Universe lasts.) He said, “I’m sure that Stephen Haking took that into account.” I showed him evidence that Stephen Hawking did not take time dilation into account. He had no explanation.
I talked to a prominent Delaware Valley astronomer about the problem. He said, “You may be correct.”
It appears that though they won a lawsuit permitting the experiment to go forward, the scientists aren’t really sure that they are correct, and would rather throw the dice and risk destroying the world – no joke! – than admit that their $20 billion science experiment is an error.
If the machine does produce a BHF, it will not evaporate, because time will functionally freeeze inside the object.
It will jump out of the machine, and begin gravitationally absorbing anything it touches. Absorbed matter will begin orbitting the particle as something called an “accretion disk,” and jets of energy ripped-out of the matter in the accretion disk will begin to blast-away at the surrounding environment. It will absorb more and more matter as it blasts its way through the rock encasing the Collider tunnels, getting heavier and heavier. There is a 50% chance it will “go airborne,” for a short time, in a brief sub-orbital flight, and then smash back into the Earth and cut its way to the center of the Earth, leaving a kind of volcano behind itself, and then absorb the Earth – and us – from the inside out.
The Collider scientist I talked to had a second argument: High energy particles come blasting in from space all of the time. If BHFs are a problem because they can’t evaporate, why hasn’t the Earth already been destroyed?
Answer: Tunguska.
More than a century ago, something flew-in out of space and crashed into the Earth, generating the most powerful blast in recorded history – some say a 100 megaton blast. Yet, it left no crater.
I argued that it passed through the Earth, and came out the other side in a second powerful blast that went unnoticed, because it happed in an ocean.
The point is, Collider scientists really are playing dice with the entire Earth.
I am a lawyer. But I know enough about particle physics to be aware that there is a danger that if those high energy proton streams are collided in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, protons will be collided with such incredible violence that they might form what might be referred to as a “Black Hole in Formation,” or “BHF.”
Collider scientists say that, indeed, their machine might form a black hole, but it will evaporate in less than a second due to something called “Hawking Radiation.”
I actually contacted one of the scientists peripherally related to the Collider experiment, and I proposed to him a very simple reason why black holes coming out of the collider won’t evaporate. (Something called “relativistic time dilation” freezes all black holes in the process of formation, so that they never quite finish forming, so that they never evaporate, so that they last as long as the Universe lasts.) He said, “I’m sure that Stephen Haking took that into account.” I showed him evidence that Stephen Hawking did not take time dilation into account. He had no explanation.
I talked to a prominent Delaware Valley astronomer about the problem. He said, “You may be correct.”
It appears that though they won a lawsuit permitting the experiment to go forward, the scientists aren’t really sure that they are correct, and would rather throw the dice and risk destroying the world – no joke! – than admit that their $20 billion science experiment is an error.
If the machine does produce a BHF, it will not evaporate, because time will functionally freeeze inside the object.
It will jump out of the machine, and begin gravitationally absorbing anything it touches. Absorbed matter will begin orbitting the particle as something called an “accretion disk,” and jets of energy ripped-out of the matter in the accretion disk will begin to blast-away at the surrounding environment. It will absorb more and more matter as it blasts its way through the rock encasing the Collider tunnels, getting heavier and heavier. There is a 50% chance it will “go airborne,” for a short time, in a brief sub-orbital flight, and then smash back into the Earth and cut its way to the center of the Earth, leaving a kind of volcano behind itself, and then absorb the Earth – and us – from the inside out.
The Collider scientist I talked to had a second argument: High energy particles come blasting in from space all of the time. If BHFs are a problem because they can’t evaporate, why hasn’t the Earth already been destroyed?
Answer: Tunguska.
More than a century ago, something flew-in out of space and crashed into the Earth, generating the most powerful blast in recorded history – some say a 100 megaton blast. Yet, it left no crater.
I argued that it passed through the Earth, and came out the other side in a second powerful blast that went unnoticed, because it happed in an ocean.
The point is, Collider scientists really are playing dice with the entire Earth.
