[kj] Black Hole Chaos
Darth E. Vader
crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 2 05:36:54 EDT 2007
Well I missed the TV broadcast as I was at a Red Panda
gig in Liverpool.
I have Joanna Newsom on the stereo for the first time
after thinking I might end up being the last person on
Earth who hadn't heard her - harp music witch seems a
mellow antidote to Europe. Of course Europe is also a
KILLING JOKE song.
Hey, isn't this where we all began??????
--- uncle bennys magical bra factory
<fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was on TV last night.
>
> Was quite interesting.
> I missed a good chunk of it some I'm probably
> missing something fundamental
> out or have all this completely wrong but basically
> ... (switch off now if
> potanga-mangled science bores you)
>
> The famous E = MC2 (Energy = Mass x the speed of
> light squared) shows that
> mass & energy are the same thing.
> Anything with mass contains a huge amount of energy
> & conversely massive
> amounts of energy can create mass.
> As Bill Bryson put it rather nicely in his
> brilliantly pleb proof, simple to
> understand 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'
> (which I highly recommend)
> "... if you are an average-sized adult you will
> contain within your frame...
> enough energy to explode with the force of 30 very
> large hydrogen bombs,
> assuming you knew how to liberate it & really wanted
> to make a point"
>
> We know all the sub atomic particles that make up
> everything, but not the
> glue that holds these bits together - that binds
> these little bits into
> solid, tangible things. In finding out they'll
> discover more of how the
> universe was made.
> Like this guy said on the TV, "It's too complicated
> to fathom out now, the
> easiest way is to go back to the beginning & look at
> it"
> So they're re-creating a mini 'big bang'
>
> This thing they're building is 7 times more powerful
> that the biggest, erm,
> thingy machine (those things they fire atoms round
> tracks with) we have
> today which is 6 km in diameter
> (Hosannas! I remembered the name of the thingy -
> particle accelerator! )
> in the hope that they will find the glue they've
> been theorising about.
> One side affect of this massive release of energy is
> the possibility of
> creating a black hole.
> They were saying that if it does create a black hole
> it will disappear as
> soon as it materialises. Phew!
> Thank god scientists are never wrong...
>
> > Perhaps the final countdown has just begun...
>
> PS - you bastard, I now have Europe's 'The Final
> Countdown' stuck in my
> head!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/5/07 09:48, "Darth E. Vader" wrote:
>
> > Anyone else seen the news story about the Black
> Hole
> > reactor on the Swiss French border which might
> destroy
> > the world when it is activated in November?
> >
> > Perhaps the final countdown has just begun...
>
> --
>
>
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