Thread: Good news, the LHC is back!

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.

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

Originally Posted by Scatterbrain

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.

Originally Posted by starry eyes

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.

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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.

Originally Posted by 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.

No.. they are far too small and insignificant.

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