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mad science

The Truth About Microscopic Black Holes and the Utter Destruction of Earth

Science fiction is rife with tales of experiments that run out of control and blow up the planet or exterminate all life or something. Maybe that's why two U.S. researchers sued the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), trying to get an injunction that would prevent them from building their Large Hadron Collider. Their reason? Concern that it would create an apocalyptic mini-black hole here on Earth. Many debated whether their fears were pure cranksterism or held a grain of truth. Now a physics professor has researched the issue and discovered the truth about the LHC's inherent risks to all humanity. More »

8:00 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
5,703 views, 57 comments

Latest by n/a: Three score and ten years ago Albert Einstein tried to tell the scientists of the day that event horizons were wormholes. Likewise in times since others have tried that matter namely the proton is a stable wormhole. It changes not more »

lost

Lost Destroys Spacetime, Celebrates Science

Is Lost about to destroy the very nature of time, space and reality itself when it explains how Ben managed to get off the island recently? That's the theory from Popular Mechanics magazine after they looked into the real life science behind what they call "the first mainstream TV show since Mr. Wizard to make science cool again." More »

7:30 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,156 views, 42 comments

triviagasm

The Large Hadron Collider Will Gobble Up The Earth (Or Maybe Just France)

The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research facility near Geneva, Switzerland won't be going on a luau in Hawaii anytime soon, since the state is suing to stop the activation of the enormous research project. Yes, it's not just individual wackos who believe the LHC will unleash a cosmic ass-whooping on the planet. An actual state is suing the builders to keep them from activating it. They fear it'll let loose runaway miniature black holes, strangelets, or magnetic monopoles that will destroy the planet. The researchers at CERN have spent their precious time trying to assure people that won't happen, although it would be kind of cool if it did. We've got the strange and winding history of this project in today's Triviagasm. More »

3:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,212 views, 64 comments

Latest by n/a: Is Hawking Radiation real? 2008 ... this prediction is not without its problems... no very good responses to these concerns... completely alters the picture drawn by Hawking... [arxiv.org] 2008 ... Max-Plank-Institut fur Astrophysik: The results indicate that on average, "low mass" black more »

cosmology

Is Dark Energy the New Aether?

You may think physics has changed over the past 200 years, but it hasn't. Today, theoretical physicists can't understand why the universe is expanding at an observed rate that doesn't quite mesh with general relativity. Back in the 19th century, theoretical physicists couldn't understand how electromagnetic energy and gravity could propagate through empty space. The proposed solution in both cases was the same: there must some stuff out there that we can't see, yet affects the entire universe. In the past, that substance was aether. Is today's dark energy the modern equivalent? More »

11:45 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
2,380 views, 48 comments

Latest by n/a: Professor Dr. Otto E. Roessler estimates 50 months Earth accretion time from a single micro black hole captured by Earth's gravity (www.golem.de/0802/57477-4.html, translation at www.lhcconcerns.com/ more »