Large Hadron Collider Creates Incredibly Dense Primordial Matter

[WaderiAAA]

For millenias, man has been physic's *****. Now, face the revolution.

PS: Chuck Norris could totally take physics in a fight.

 

[Buizel91]

Sooooo...is this a yay or nay?

I mean something THAT heavy must be really hard to transport and study, what can it be used for? And how the fuck has it not melted the colider? :|

Should be interesting to see what research they come up with in the next few years.

 

[Buizel91]

Yes, but does it taste nice on toast?

Good look holding that piece of toast...

 

[Buizel91]

"The unique material is 100,000 times hotter than the sun and denser than any known object other than a black hole"

Someone care to explain to me how it didn't crush/melt anyone in its nearby vicinity? Perhaps I'm simply overestimating its size, but I don't see how something that hot and dense could be so easily contained.

As someone stated, probably with Magnetic containment.

 

[adrakonis]

*snip

Why does science news inspire debates about god? It's futile, no one wins.

OT: I always like nice about the LHC. I was in there with a school trip.
Anyway, I'm still waiting for the news about the Higgs Boson. When/if it comes. That would be amazing.

 

[RadiusXd]

*snip

Why does science news inspire debates about god? It's futile, no one wins.

OT: I always like nice about the LHC. I was in there with a school trip.
Anyway, I'm still waiting for the news about the Higgs Boson. When/if it comes. That would be amazing.

I think you will find science and religion in a lot of cases are in fact opposing and in competition. People used to look almost exclusively to faith to answer the questions of a puzzling world, and while science can't answer them all (and most definitely never will), we have explanations for the majority of the things that effect us on a practical level.

 

[Sporky111]

I just can't help but marvel at the fact that the most dense substance yet created is a liquid.

It isn't a liquid, it isn't even made out of protons, electrons and neutrons, like normal atoms, but it ACTS like a liquid.

My mistake

I can't help but marvel at the fact that the most dense substance yet created ACTS like a liquid. As opposed to a super-dense brick of subatomic particles, like one might expect.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I got curious and ran the numbers through a couple of online gravitational force calculators for a sugarcube-sized thing with a mass of 40 billion tons. If I'm doing it right--and it's been a while since my high school physics class, so it's very possible--the G-forces (converted from newtons) look roughly like this at various distances, assuming a 100-kilogram person standing at each one:

1 kilometer: 0.03 G
100 meters: 2.7 G
1 meter: 27,224 G
10 centimeters: 2.7 million G
1 centimeter: 272 million G

So...yeah. You'd want to be at least a good football field's length away from the thing.

 

[Arizona Kyle]

And so pre 2012 begins

 

[Arizona Kyle]

*snip

Why does science news inspire debates about god? It's futile, no one wins.

OT: I always like nice about the LHC. I was in there with a school trip.
Anyway, I'm still waiting for the news about the Higgs Boson. When/if it comes. That would be amazing.

I think you will find science and religion in a lot of cases are in fact opposing and in competition. People used to look almost exclusively to faith to answer the questions of a puzzling world, and while science can't answer them all (and most definitely never will), we have explanations for the majority of the things that effect us on a practical level.

I wonder if God is just laughing because he knows we wont ever find out how he did some of the stuff that he did

 

[Cliff_m85]

Someone had better make a sugarcubed sized blob of this stuff and just drop it on the floor.

The results would be hilarious.

Won't happen. They have better security than the PS3. XD

 

[Kanatatsu]

The LHC genuinely scares me. A mistake of sufficient severity is an immediate extinction event.

 

[SD-Fiend]

Alrighty, let me be the first to say this, so what?

I mean, does anybody gain anything from this hyperdense trash-compaction system?

Yes.

Maybe not you, personally, but its this kind of groundbreaking research that paves the way for far more stuff then you'd imagine. I could explain it to you, but won't.

In real terms, look at it this way. Would the several billion pound research facility have been built in the first place if the people in charge didn't think the fruit was worth bearing?

EDIT: Also, having read through some absolutely hilarious psuedo-scientific shit, I can safely say this is one of my favourite threads on the Escapist. To the people cracking jokes, talking about Portals, superheroes and the market for self serving tea, you guys rock. To everyone else, read more.

Also, no, there is no God. You were unimaginably lucky to be given one life, and some arrogant people feel entitled to two? Get over yourselves.

I feel the presence of a 40 billion ton banhammer coming my way, but screw it, needs to be said.

I think it's been said about 2000 times already and no mattter how many imes it's said it won't change a thing.

 

[Atheist.]

Someone had better make a sugarcubed sized blob of this stuff and just drop it on the floor.

The results would be hilarious.

Yeah, like pull the moon slowly towards and smashing into the surface of the earth by its immense gravitational pull.

Nah, the earth's gravitational pull is still around 2 X 10^11 more powerful. Though I'm questioning how well the Earth's surface would hold up against something so dense being dropped from even a meter high.

 

[mrschultz]

Only slightly less dense than a black hole. Holy cow, did they ever dodge the bullet there. Shall we go for another round and see if we can get it right this time?

 

[TornadoADV]

Speaking of which, how's that black hole coming along?

 

[internetzealot1]

If we stir it, it goes on forever...

Perpetual Motion Machine anybody?

 

[Frylock72]

I don't have the patience to read all eight pages, so sorry if this has been posted already. Now that they've smashed lead to get quark-gluon plasma, now they need to smash the plasma together! Time to do it up.

In the event such a thing is impossible, I will be sad.