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

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sdifox

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I would try my best to prevent my head from becoming part of my ass for as long as possible.

too late for that...
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: Arcadio
It might surprise you to know that I'm not really a physicist.

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

Not really into history either are you. :laugh:


Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: sdifox
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.

at 1 MPH, it will take about 160 days until it reached everywhere on the planet. At around 50% growth, you would feel 50% of gravity's pull towards the center of the earth, and 50% towards the center of the black hole, which would be the radius of the earth off from the center of the earth.

Unless you were on the opposite side of the planet, you would feel some really strange forces. You could drive west twice as fast as you could east :p

So this is pretty much the answer:
Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Uh...die?

Though the intervening 160 days could be really fun for us physics guys :)




 

DangerAardvark

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Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
Find the cutest girl I can and have wild sex until the time is up

I like this idea...

Originally posted by: JohnCU
try to find some heroin

Or this one one....

OR BOTH AT THE SAME TIME! :D

You'd probably get limp dick from the heroin then have the girl's disappointment ruin your high. That's why I recommend a gallon of ecstasy and a girl's school. Free ecstasy till the end of the world, get it while it's hot.
 

nineball9

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Originally posted by: Arcadio
... but let's say that the LHC somehow created a black hole that starts from a point and grows at a rate of 1 mile per hour, in all directions (a sphere). What would you do.

If I heard that on the TV news, I'd wonder why my TV was tuned to FOX News. It sounds like a headline one might find scanning the tabloids while waiting in a supermarket checkout line.

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

LOL, Jeff7! You're probably correct!