What would you do if the Large Hadron Collider created a black hole

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Arcadio

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Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Uh...die?

Do you happen to live in the border between France and Switzerland?

what part of growing in diameter @ 1 MPH did you not understand?

What I meant is that unless the black hole reaches your current location, you would not be sucked by it.

you still are not getting it... Earth is fucked because that would totally screw up the planet's gravity.

Oh yeah. Damn gravity. Still, at that rate, we would probably have a few hours to think about what to do, right? It might surprise you to know that I'm not really a physicist.
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: Arcadio
Oh yeah. Damn gravity. Still, at that rate, we would probably have a few hours to think about what to do, right? It might surprise you to know that I'm not really a physicist.

This is general knowledge... Stuff that probably pop up in "are you smarter than a fifth grader"
 

darkxshade

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Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Uh...die?

Do you happen to live in the border between France and Switzerland?

what part of growing in diameter @ 1 MPH did you not understand?

What I meant is that unless the black hole reaches your current location, you would not be sucked by it.

you still are not getting it... Earth is fucked because that would totally screw up the planet's gravity.

Oh yeah. Damn gravity. Still, at that rate, we would probably have a few hours to think about what to do, right? It might surprise you to know that I'm not really a physicist.

Thank god for small favors
 

aigomorla

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mmmm black hole...

can we get mangaish, and build a shell around it and call it buster machine 3?

or put it in a crystal box and call it a ZPM?
 

EvilYoda

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What a stupid question...I understand the concept behind it and all, but if you know what the Large Hadron Collider is, how do you not grasp what even a tiny tiny black hole anywhere near Earth would do?
 

JakwoW

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Originally posted by: EvilYoda
What a stupid question...I understand the concept behind it and all, but if you know what the Large Hadron Collider is, how do you not grasp what even a tiny tiny black hole anywhere near Earth would do?

QFT. This is the stupidest "hypothetical" evar.

 

Arcadio

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Originally posted by: JakwoW
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
What a stupid question...I understand the concept behind it and all, but if you know what the Large Hadron Collider is, how do you not grasp what even a tiny tiny black hole anywhere near Earth would do?

QFT. This is the stupidest "hypothetical" evar.

I've seen worse hypothetical situations in Hollywood movies. A huge ship hitting an iceberg and sinking? Yeah....right.
 

ghostman

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Wait. Is it just my misunderstanding of what a black holes here, but isn't it just significant mass in a small amount of space? For example, if we had enough mass to create a black hole on earth in the first place, then the gravity is already there. When we compact that mass to create a black hole, since it's the same amount of mass, no additional gravitational pull is introduced. Items outside the black hole's event horizon won't be "sucked" in anymore than it would have before the mass was compacted. I could be totally off base here, I suppose.
 

Jeff7

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Go out as a puff of X-ray radiation.

Humanity's legacy to the Universe:
- Lots and lots of radio-frequency chatter
- a few probes exiting the solar system
- a burst of gamma and x-ray radiation
- violating the laws of physics

(I do wish they'd rename "X-Ray." Of course, if they'd discovered it now, they'd be i-rays. *shudder*)


Interesting bit of info though - law of conservation of mass.

If Earth were compressed into a singularity, I don't think it would affect anything else.
You'd just have a tiny singularity with the mass of Earth. The Moon would continue to orbit it like nothing had ever happened, except for the sudden absence of tidal forces.



Originally posted by: ghostman
Wait. Is it just my misunderstanding of what a black holes here, but isn't it just significant mass in a small amount of space? For example, if we had enough mass to create a black hole on earth in the first place, then the gravity is already there. When we compact that mass to create a black hole, since it's the same amount of mass, no additional gravitational pull is introduced. Items outside the black hole's event horizon won't be "sucked" in anymore than it would have before the mass was compacted. I could be totally off base here, I suppose.
Exactly.
IF any black holes would be created, they'd be tinier than a proton, and have about the same amount of gravitational attraction.
Personally, I'm hoping that dragons pop out of the LHC, which is (seriously) about as probable as them creating a tiny black hole.

 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: JakwoW
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
What a stupid question...I understand the concept behind it and all, but if you know what the Large Hadron Collider is, how do you not grasp what even a tiny tiny black hole anywhere near Earth would do?

QFT. This is the stupidest "hypothetical" evar.

I've seen worse hypothetical situations in Hollywood movies. A huge ship hitting an iceberg and sinking? Yeah....right.

What? Titanic was not hypothetical, it happened. Geez, how did you miss that?
 
T

Tim

This has to be his best new topic all day... and that's not saying much.
 

l0cke

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Drive to the place where they launch Spaceshipone from and hijack it, then have wild sex in space?