Re: Black hole, strangelets and space phase transition at LHC?
- From: "Greysky" <greyskyat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:36:16 +0000 (UTC)
<vantuyll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> CERN's LHC is scheduled to start operation in 2007.
>
> Our Final Century, a 2003 book by Sir Martin Rees
> (http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/IoA/staff/mjr/), a scientist with impeccable
> credentials, describes the following extreme risks:
>
> Crashing together an atom of gold and an atom of lead in the LHC could
> result in an unprecedented implosion. A black hole could form, a
> stranglet might be produced, or a phase transition of space could
> expand at the speed of light.
>
> Is this nonsense, or is it a risk, however remote?
>
The creation of strangelets is a cause for worry. The major reasons given
for the difficulty of strangelet production at our near future levels of
energy manipulation seem to be evaporating. See:
http://focus.aps.org/story/v16/st Though it isn't stated directly in
the article, it does indicate, between the lines, that strangelets are
500% - 1000% easier to
create than had been previously assumed. I suspect the picture will worsen
as we learn more...
There is also some good evidence in the seismic record for 1993, that the
earth was in fact hit by two of these beasties. They were moving so fast
they sailed right through us without stopping.
Greysky
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