Large Hadron Collider Creates Incredibly Dense Primordial Matter

[Thaluikhain]

Nope, like the news said. Vry dense but not denser than a black hole. And there is a big misconception about black holes. If the sun would change to a black hole with the same mass as the sun. Nothing would change. Ok not nothing, it would for instance get very very cold here on earth. BUT the earth would remain in a steady orbit.

Exactly. People keep getting that bit wrong.

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

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

Scientists continue to learn more about the nature of reality, in ways that are very boring and/or incomprehensible to the lay person. But, given a few decades, we'll all be taking this knowledge for granted.

I mean, the space race was just a contest between the US and it's most hated rival, the US (which the Soviets snuck into when nobody was looking and were winning for a time), but we have communication satellites because of it.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

So, uhh, this stuff then?

 

[Casimir_Effect]

I...gah. Holy shit do i want to see a sugarcube made of that stuff...
And it really does seem like they're making something that just says "screw you, Physics!"
But I don't get a lot of science stuff, so don't mind that remark.

Actually it's more like they're saying "Physics! Fuck Yeah!".

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

Wow o.o genuinely mind-boggling stuff!
Also, lol at the awkward blank capcha...
...
OH THERE WE GO.
Phew, I thought the LHC just destroyed the internet.

 

[JUGGERNAUTBITCH]

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.

I was thinking more along the lines of, burns through to the center of the earth and begins to slowly draw all of the earths matter into it's incredibly dense blob until nothing is left.

Almost right. The best visual representation I can think of that would happen was that one episode of SG:Atlantis where they made a replicator girl that made all the other reps stick to her and they all became on huge blob and sucked the entire solar-system into a newly formed black hole.

Nope, like the news said. Vry dense but not denser than a black hole. And there is a big misconception about black holes. If the sun would change to a black hole with the same mass as the sun. Nothing would change. Ok not nothing, it would for instance get very very cold here on earth. BUT the earth would remain in a steady orbit.

Man, where did you learn to science? The Thing is dense, it will suck the earth in and become more dense, it will then suck the moon in and become even more dense, long story short, chain reaction...... The end!

sry bro:
Black holes, unlike their common image, do not necessarily suck up all the matter in the vicinity. They can act as "cosmic vacuum cleaners", but not as much as some people might think.[57] The collapse of a star into a black hole is an explosive process, which means, according to Mass?energy equivalence, that the resulting black hole would be of lower mass than its parent object, and actually have a weaker gravitational pull.[58] The source of the confusion comes from the fact that a black hole exists in a space much smaller but orders of magnitude more dense than a star, causing its gravitational pull to be much stronger closer to its surface. But, as an example, were the Sun to be replaced by a black hole of the same mass, then the orbits of all the planets surrounding it would be unaffected. This is because "if you're outside the event horizon, you can just keep going around in circles around [a black hole], in exactly the same way that you can be in orbit around any other kind of mass."[59]

wikipedia. (i know not the most reliable source)

 

[theheroofaction]

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But nothing can be learned from this, it's just like high water pressure, only more so.

 

[cainx10a]

So, uhh, this stuff then?

So we fixed the energy problem? Can we move on to invading alien planets now?

 

[Tartarga]

If ever there was a time to become a mad scientist bent on world destruction it was now.

 

[5mj7R7yf4Dwr3gdZyyu9PeGNwYjlNrjzuh3iTXQG]

Oh and, for your enjoyment [http://youtu.be/BXzugu39pKM].

238U.

PS. This won't happen.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

cool, so if we can make lead travel nearly the speed of light, theres hope for traversing the universe after all.

and err, well done to them who made 'dark matter'

If we can somehow find a way to use this thing-a-majig as a resource for power, we can officially say that we're living in a new era.

dude, everytime i read your post's i cant take them seriously, i imagine them all in batman's voice.

 

[Triforceformer]

I think the real question on everyone's mind is this:

Can you snort it? If so, then how sweet of a trip would you go on?

But really, if they can make some form of new energy with this, then we are officially living in the future. If not, then can we at least give it a funny name?

 

[ryo02]

guess we know what the metal cube in this clip is now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16EKZcz14Ac

 

[Verlander]

My science isn't great either, surely it's a bit rich referring to a black hole as a "known object"... correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those still theoretical? Like, by their very nature are almost impossible to confirm existing?

 

[Drake_Dercon]

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.

Not to mention that you'd need to find 40 billion tons of matter (just lying around... hey, maybe we could use jupiter!) to accelerate to near light-speed, then do so.

That would require about (40 000 000 000 000 * 299 792 458) N (calculator glitched, so I couldn't calculate it without spending ten minutes doing it the old fashioned way) of force.

Point being, I would probably worship you as some sort of messiah if you could do it.

 

[teebeeohh]

so this stuff is slightly less dense than your average elected official?

 

[Triforceformer]

so this stuff is slightly less dense than your average elected official?

Or William Taft.

 

[GrimTuesday]

So, uhh, this stuff then?

So we fixed the energy problem? Can we move on to invading alien planets now?

I agree with this statement. All this science is meaningless with out alien species with which to conquer and enslave, so lets get to finding them.

Is that a Bronn avatar I see?

 

[Thaluikhain]

That would require about (40 000 000 000 000 * 299 792 458) N (calculator glitched, so I couldn't calculate it without spending ten minutes doing it the old fashioned way) of force.

Point being, I would probably worship you as some sort of messiah if you could do it.

Actually, no, that would be the force needed to accelerate it to C in one second, if it wasn't for relatavistic effects. (If you just take C as 3 x 10^8, you can just say 1.2 x 10^22 N)

Unfortunately, if you were doing that, the object would end up half a light second away once it reached that speed, travelling outwards, which would lead to your budget being cut, unless you had a very good spin doctor.

 

[V8 Ninja]

If we can somehow find a way to use this thing-a-majig as a resource for power, we can officially say that we're living in a new era.

dude, everytime i read your post's i cant take them seriously, i imagine them all in batman's voice.

Fun Fact: After I touched the read button badge, I randomly changed my avatar in hopes of possibly breaking the joke and laughing at the Escapist for making the badge easily broken. That didn't work, but the avatar I chose was this current one. After 24 hours of pressing the button, I saw that I changed the avatar to Batman and decided that it was quite fitting for me (somewhat awesome, somewhat clueless).

 

[cainx10a]

So, uhh, this stuff then?

So we fixed the energy problem? Can we move on to invading alien planets now?

I agree with this statement. All this science is meaningless with out alien species with which to conquer and enslave, so lets get to finding them.

Is that a Bronn avatar I see?

Indeed, it is.