Large Hadron Collider Creates Incredibly Dense Primordial Matter
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Ah, those things. It's impossible to directly observe those sneaky bastards, given that light doesn't emit from them. However, they are stupidly energetic. Large black holes, quasars, are quite easy to observe, as they shoot giant jets out at their poles. They're found at the center of galaxies. Here's a sample:Verlander said:
Now stellar sized black holes are more tricky. They are also quite energetic, so we can scan the sky in the x-ray spectrum (see Chandra x-ray observatory). The accretion disk of the black hole will glow quite intensely, so we can infer their location from there. Moar piczzz:
Woohoo, I love having friends in astronomy!
Just so you know, the gravity that comes from your mass pulls the Earth up, albeit barelyxeneficus said:
HankMan said:OMG! there is finally something denser on this planet that Rush Limbaugh's cranium
perpetual motion= perpetual energy= Suddenly those stars don't seem so far away anymore.Tom Goldman said:
I seriously hope you are trolling. It's reproducing the conditions just after the big bang and that can tell us a lot of things about the universe.theheroofaction said:
Also another thing, people worried about black holes being produced, if a black hole was produced in the LHC (which it almost certainly wont) it would disintegrate in seconds, assuming that the laws of thermodynamics are true (Hawking radiation look it up).
Also another another thing
, they amount of the quark-gluon plasma they will have made would have been minuscule, they don't have the capability to collide 40 billion tons of matter together to produce that much, if it some how escaped or w/e, it would just quickly cool down and reform into normal matter, which it does in the LHC anyway.Also the perpetual motion thing, it's not quite like that, a perfect fluid has no viscous forces and so as per Newton it will continue at the same velocity, not being slowed by the viscous forces, no perpetual energy there, if you put a tea spoon back in but didn't move it the energy would dissipate.
We haven't even really mastered space travel and we're already resorting to space wars. Oh humans, we so sill-eh.ryo02 said:
Yes, we get a far better understanding of the universe, it undoubtedly has practical applications but because it's so new it's hard to imagine them.theheroofaction said:
When humans discovered fire, I'd imagine the practical benefits of it weren't immediately apparent.
EDIT: Oh, you meant the LHC itself, I thought you meant the discovery.
Still, the point remains.
Most likely neither, as it would be a ***** to transport and keep stable, or better yet, carry an LHC to generate it on the go, although if they do find a way to do it efficiently, it will probably be closer to starship weapons.ryo02 said:
that would be ... scary powerfullDasDestroyer said:
sorry ... didnt say it was a good thing just stating what it might be used for you know the military thought it. nukes were stupid enough this would be ... well even more world endingly bad.Abengoshis said:
Magnets! [sub][sub]fucking magnets, how do they work?[/sub][/sub]Quantum Star said:
Magnetic containment is used for plasmas and other nasty things. It's quite effective, nothing gets in and nothing gets out.
Nah, it's far too unknown and difficult to create in any sizable amounts for it to be used for warfare... yet.ryo02 said:
And I still believe that the best weapon we could come up with is a star surrounded completely by incredibly efficient solar panels and such to soak up as much of it's energy as possible, all of the used to fuel a death-star-esque laser
Certainly not by leaving it be. Closer to the time of the big bang most of the universe was made of this stuff, but then it rather quickly turned into quarks and such.Quantum Star said:
aww an here I was gonna suggest building a Ring World (halo's from the halo games or the larry niven novels)DasDestroyer said:Nah, it's far too unknown and difficult to create in any sizable amounts for it to be used for warfare... yet.
And I still believe that the best weapon we could come up with is a star surrounded completely by incredibly efficient solar panels and such to soak up as much of it's energy as possible, all of the used to fuel a death-star-esque laser
Certainly not by leaving it be. Closer to the time of the big bang most of the universe was made of this stuff, but then it rather quickly turned into quarks and such.Quantum Star said:
That's a great idea too, as it allows for a huge habitable surface, but too much energy escapes past the rather thin band for it to be a very efficient weapon.ryo02 said:aww an here I was gonna suggest building a Ring World (halo's from the halo games or the larry niven novels)DasDestroyer said:Nah, it's far too unknown and difficult to create in any sizable amounts for it to be used for warfare... yet.
And I still believe that the best weapon we could come up with is a star surrounded completely by incredibly efficient solar panels and such to soak up as much of it's energy as possible, all of the used to fuel a death-star-esque laser
Certainly not by leaving it be. Closer to the time of the big bang most of the universe was made of this stuff, but then it rather quickly turned into quarks and such.Quantum Star said:
Gotta love Ringworld
[sub][sub]I just hope stasis fields are invented in my lifetime...[/sub][/sub]
You're right. Your science isn't great. Black holes exist and among the bigger ones are those at the center of some galaxies. There's a huge black hole at the center of our galaxy. You should go to youtube and do a little research on the subject.Verlander said:
