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TwitterParticle AcceleratorsPhysicists have long theorized that particle accelerators could destroy the earth. When electric fields are used to accelerate protons they could collide at speed fast enough to create black holes or bits of altered matter. These small black holes would slowly engulf our planet.
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End of the World 10 Disasters that could end it all at any given second
May 10th, 2009 
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February 25th, 2009 admin Hat Tip: Geek Press.
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February 21st, 2009 admin Photo: Main facts of the Fermi Mission:Spacecraft was launched in June 2008 on a five-year missionIt is looking at the Universe in the highest-energy form of lightFermi is 2.8m (9.2ft) high and 2.4m (8.2ft) in diameterThe spacecraft orbits at an altitude of 565km (350 miles)It could pick up about 200 cosmic explosions each yearFrom The BBC:Astronomers have recorded the most powerful radiation blast from deep space yet detected.The event was observed by Nasa’s recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and reported in the online edition of the journal Science.The source of the blast is assumed to be the catastrophic implosion of a star, to create a black hole.Scientists say the spectacle’s energy release was equivalent to thousands of ordinary exploding stars.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: 4m, Altitude, Bbc, Black Hole, Cosmic Explosions, Deep Space, Diameter, Energy Release, Exploding Stars, Gamma Ray, Highest Energy, Implosion, Journal Science, Mission Spacecraft, Nasa, Radiation, Ray Space, Space Telescope, Spacecraft Orbits, Spectacle Comments OffBlack Hole Confirmed In Milky Way
February 19th, 2009 admin From BBC:There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a 16-year study by German astronomers has confirmed.They tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using two telescopes in Chile.The black hole, said to be 27,000 light years from Earth, is four million times bigger than the Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal.Black holes are objects whose gravity is so great that nothing – including light – can escape them.According to Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the results suggest that galaxies form around giant black holes in the way that a pearl forms around grit.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Astrophysical Journal, Bbc, Black Hole, Black Holes, Chile, Dr Robert, Earth, Galaxies, Galaxy, German Astronomers, Giant, Gravity, Grit, Light Years, Milky Way, Million Times, Robert Massey, Royal Astronomical Society, Sun, Telescopes Comments OffScientists Not So Sure ‘Doomsday Machine’ Won’t Destroy World
January 29th, 2009 admin Photo: March 22, 2007: Magnet core of the largest superconducting solenoid magnet at European Organization for Nuclear Research’s Large Hadron Collider. APFrom FOX News:Still worried that the Large Hadron Collider will create a black hole that will destroy the Earth when it’s finally switched on this summer?Um, well, you may have a point.Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world’s largest particle collider, and determined that they won’t simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer — perhaps even more than a second, a relative eternity in particle colliders, where most objects decay much faster.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Black Hole, Doomsday Machine, Eternity, European Organization, Fox News, Hadron Collider, Large Hadron, Magnet Core, Microscopic Black Holes, Millisecond, Nuclear Research, Particle Collider, Physicists, Sergio Fabi, Solenoid, Solenoid Magnet, Superconducting Solenoid, University Of Alabama, University Of Bologna, World Photo Comments OffDo Naked Singularities Break the Rules of Physics?
January 22nd, 2009 admin Image: Kenn brown Mondolithic StudiosFrom Scientific American:The black hole has a troublesome sibling, the naked singularity. Physicists have long thought–hoped–it could never exist. But could it? * Conventional wisdom has it that a large star eventually collapses to a black hole, but some theoretical models suggest it might instead become a so-called naked singularity.
Posted in Science News Tags: Astrophysics, Black Hole, Collapse, Conventional Wisdom, Fate, Gravity, Kilometers, Massive Star, Modern Science, Naked Singularity, Observational Tests, Physicists, Pinprick, Scientific American, Sibling, Strange Ideas, Theoretical Models, Theory Of Physics, Unified Theory, Unresolved Problems Comments OffTop 10 Ways to Destroy Earth
December 26th, 2008 admin Whether it took the Earth 4.5 billion years to get to where it is today (or a mere seven days), destroying it might take a lot less time. Sam Hughes presents a host of methods for ending the planet — and life — as we know it.
Posted in Tech News Tags: Actuality, Black Hole, Black Holes, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Creative Solutions, Final Resting Place, Glob, Googolplex, Hawking Radiation, Heavy Ion, Planet Earth, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Rhic, Sam Hughes, Stable Strangelet, Strange Matter, Strange Quarks, Strangelets, Top 10 Ways To Destroy Earth, Utter Rubbish Comments OffTop 10 Scientific Discoveries For 2008
December 24th, 2008 admin From Time Magazine:1. Large Hadron ColliderJean-Pierre Clatot / AFP / GettyGood news! The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the massive particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border — didn’t destroy the world! The bad news: The contraption didn’t really work either. In September, the 17-mile collider was switched on for the first time, putting to rest the febrile webchatter that the machine would create an artificial black hole capable of swallowing the planet or at least a sizeable piece of Europe — a bad day no matter what.
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