Good news, the LHC is back!

[starry eyes]

Well not back just yet, but it will be online pretty soon. Here's the Large Hadron Collider's official website, with repair status- http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ As you can see, half of the ring is well-chilled, and they are predicting to be operational by autumn. Hopefully they can be at full power before the end of the year. The unofficial promises by a lot of respected scientists is that we might be getting some very real alternate dimensions/universes once they are running.

[Scatterbrain]

Good news? It's going to create a blackhole!

[starry eyes]

Good news? It's going to create a blackhole! So it's a win-win situation But there really isn't much chance of black hole formation. Probably a better chance of creating a portal to another dimension. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Even if the worst happens, everyone alive right now will be dead in a hundred years anyways. Besides, some very strange phenomena was reported in the surrounding countryside during the week when it was last powered-up, which makes me suspect the scientists promising alternate dimensions might be right.

[O'nus]

But there really isn't much chance of black hole formation. Probably a better chance of creating a portal to another dimension. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Even if the worst happens, everyone alive right now will be dead in a hundred years anyways. Besides, some very strange phenomena was reported in the surrounding countryside during the week when it was last powered-up, which makes me suspect the scientists promising alternate dimensions might be right. Ohhh gawwwd... as I understand it, it actually is supposed to create black holes... but on such micor-scopic protonic scales that you could not even see it with your eyes. It's just colliding protons. That is all folks. ~

[slash112]

if it does creat black holes, wouldnt it "suck in"(dont know a better phrase to describe it) the collider, even though they are really small, because surely it would still have immense strength.

[O'nus]

if it does creat black holes, wouldnt it "suck in"(dont know a better phrase to describe it) the collider, even though they are really small, because surely it would still have immense strength. No.. they are far too small and insignificant. ~

[slash112]

No.. they are far too small and insignificant. ~ ok, but i heard there is a slight chance of the black hole growing too big, then it would "suck in" the collider, then the world.

[O'nus]

ok, but i heard there is a slight chance of the black hole growing too big, then it would "suck in" the collider, then the world. Yeah but this just as likely as the sun exploding tomorrow. ~

[slash112]

Yeah but this just as likely as the sun exploding tomorrow. ~ oh, ok

[Scatterbrain]

Yeah but this just as likely as the sun exploding tomorrow. ~ But that guy with a minor in physics says it's dangerous so it probably is. =\

[Licity]

Black holes don't grow, they shrink... Metaphorically. Hawking proved that they at least evaporate over time. A hole as small as the one the LHC might create would have a very small event horizon and probably disappear quickly.

[hellohihello]

If it did make a mini black hole, wouldn't it suck everything in in half of seconds? I mean the pressure difference would throw things so far.

[DuB]

For those wondering what went wrong with the LHC in the first place, there was a brief TED talk by Brian Cox on it: