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10-4-2008 5:29 PM
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Silkweaver says:
Nobody is exactly sure how these explosions proceed which is a tad worrying for the following reason: some clever clogs has pointed out that superfluid helium is a BEC and that the LHC is swimming in 700,000 litres of the stuff. Not only that but the entire thing is bathed in some of the most powerful magnetic fields on the planet.

If not for anything else, the LHC has become a modern doom spelling myth. The universe is about to punish us for prying on its privacy...
These modern myths are truly fascinating.

After Bose Nova? Bose Supernova!
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10-5-2008 5:41 AM
Robbert
Lets do the Bossa Nova!
10-5-2008 4:29 PM
Jorjor
The Luddites are always going to find something objectionable about the LHC.
10-8-2008 8:04 PM
larryPTL
(From the book 'Black Holes and Warped Space-Time' written by astrophysicist William J. Kaufman, III, the Bantam edition published in May 1980) Black holes lose mass with time. Temporary particles and their corresponding anti-particles that appear and then disappear happen everywhere, all the time.
If one such pair appear at the event-horizon of a black hole, and one particle gets pulled in but the other does not, then they do not disappear again. Since mass-energy cannot be created or destroyed, the mass of the particle that stayed outside the event-horizon is subtracted from the black hole. The smaller the black hole, the greater is the ratio of the surface area of its event horizon to its...
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