Triplethreat
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Sooooo, why didn't Guor go to med school again?
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Scientists at CERN announce discovery: Higgs Boson.
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This will help explain the Large Hadron Collider...
[video=youtube;j50ZssEojtM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM[/video]
[video=youtube;j50ZssEojtM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM[/video]
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Because I never had good grades in Chemistry or Biology. Those were easily my two worst subjects. Funny thing is, I regret to this day not going to med school.. It would've made my parents proud, which as of today I can say they are not, and I would've been balling out of control, which sadly, I am not.
When I finish school, we'll see what happens..
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Hey... you can eat pussy like no ones business... atleast there's that.
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I'm no scientist, but am i the only one that thinks this is a bad idea? I mean, do we really want to create mini black holes and leak gravity into parallel universes? 
I wish they'd postpone this a few months too. I'd love to win a ring before they end the world.
Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days
SCIENTISTS conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider next week hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own.
By PAUL BALDWIN
PUBLISHED: 14:49, Fri, Mar 20, 2015
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Collision course: Large Hadron Collider could discover parallel universe
The staggeringly complex LHC ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland, will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid to detect - or even create - miniature black holes.
If successful a completely new universe will be revealed – rewriting not only the physicsbooks but the philosophy books too.
It is even possible that gravity from our own universe may ‘leak’ into this parallel universe, scientists at the LHC say.
The experiment is sure to inflame alarmist critics of the LHC, many of whom initially warned the high energy particle collider would spell the end of our universe with the creation a black hole of its own.
But so far Geneva remains intact and comfortably outside the event horizon.
Indeed the LHC has been spectacularly successful. First scientists proved the existence of the elusive Higgs boson ‘God particle’ - a key building block of the universe - and it is seemingly well on the way to nailing ‘dark matter’ - a previously undetectable theoretical possibility that is now thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe.
But next week’s experiment is considered to be a game changer.
Mir Faizal, one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, said: “Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height], parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions.
“We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.
"Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.
"This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.
“This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.
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Atom art: An image of two protons smashed together at the LHC
“As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.
“We have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in ‘gravity's rainbow’ [a new scientific theory].
“If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity's rainbow and extra dimensions are correct."
When the LHC is fired up the energy is measured in Tera electron volts – a TeV is 1,000,000,000,000, or one trillion, electron Volts
So far, the LHC has searched for mini black holes at energy levels below 5.3 TeV.
But the latest study says this is too low.
Instead, the model predicts that black holes may form at energy levels of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions.
I wish they'd postpone this a few months too. I'd love to win a ring before they end the world.
Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days
SCIENTISTS conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider next week hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own.
By PAUL BALDWIN
PUBLISHED: 14:49, Fri, Mar 20, 2015
33
Collision course: Large Hadron Collider could discover parallel universe
The staggeringly complex LHC ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland, will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid to detect - or even create - miniature black holes.
If successful a completely new universe will be revealed – rewriting not only the physicsbooks but the philosophy books too.
It is even possible that gravity from our own universe may ‘leak’ into this parallel universe, scientists at the LHC say.
The experiment is sure to inflame alarmist critics of the LHC, many of whom initially warned the high energy particle collider would spell the end of our universe with the creation a black hole of its own.
But so far Geneva remains intact and comfortably outside the event horizon.
Indeed the LHC has been spectacularly successful. First scientists proved the existence of the elusive Higgs boson ‘God particle’ - a key building block of the universe - and it is seemingly well on the way to nailing ‘dark matter’ - a previously undetectable theoretical possibility that is now thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe.
But next week’s experiment is considered to be a game changer.
Mir Faizal, one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, said: “Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height], parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions.
“We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.
"Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.
"This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.
“This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.
Atom art: An image of two protons smashed together at the LHC
“As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.
“We have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in ‘gravity's rainbow’ [a new scientific theory].
“If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity's rainbow and extra dimensions are correct."
When the LHC is fired up the energy is measured in Tera electron volts – a TeV is 1,000,000,000,000, or one trillion, electron Volts
So far, the LHC has searched for mini black holes at energy levels below 5.3 TeV.
But the latest study says this is too low.
Instead, the model predicts that black holes may form at energy levels of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions.
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Micro Black Holes are harmless. They are so incredibly small and most types likely have relatively low to no appreciably net charge, such that they have such a small effective cross-section (the diameter of their event horizon) that if we created billions of micro black holes en masse in a particle accelerator, they would just be hurled out into space at relativistic speeds.
That's even assuming they survived the trip, since most natural configurations of micro black holes would not be considered stable and would evaporate, more or less fizzling out, in a very short period of time (nanoseconds or less).
Even if you took the mass of a baseball, speed it up to relativistic speeds, and then further sped it up to the point that it's mass-energy within a maximally confined space exceeded it Schwarzschild radius thus collapsing it into a black hole; the resulting object would survive for less than a second.
This is because black holes radiate away energy, in accordance with the laws of thermal dynamics, as Hawking Radiation. This radiation is inversely proportional to the mass of the singularity; meaning that, the more massive the object, the less it radiates and vice versa. Thus, micro black holes, are generally thought to be very short lived objects unless they have some form of extremal, or super-extremal configuration (and thus no entropy).
The reason we need to investigate black holes and, more to the point, singularities, is because in order to advance quantum physics any further, we need to understand how gravity and general relativity fits in with quantum mechanics.
As far as parallel universes are concerned, I'm not up to speed with the LHC's proposed experiment, but they are likely attempting to measure any appreciable energy loss over an Einstein-Rosen Bridge contained within two short-lived ring singularities that are quantumly entangled.
Micro Black Holes are harmless. They are so incredibly small and most types likely have relatively low to no appreciably net charge, such that they have such a small effective cross-section (the diameter of their event horizon) that if we created billions of micro black holes en masse in a particle accelerator, they would just be hurled out into space at relativistic speeds.
That's even assuming they survived the trip, since most natural configurations of micro black holes would not be considered stable and would evaporate, more or less fizzling out, in a very short period of time (nanoseconds or less).
Even if you took the mass of a baseball, speed it up to relativistic speeds, and then further sped it up to the point that it's mass-energy within a maximally confined space exceeded it Schwarzschild radius thus collapsing it into a black hole; the resulting object would survive for less than a second.
This is because black holes radiate away energy, in accordance with the laws of thermal dynamics, as Hawking Radiation. This radiation is inversely proportional to the mass of the singularity; meaning that, the more massive the object, the less it radiates and vice versa. Thus, micro black holes, are generally thought to be very short lived objects unless they have some form of extremal, or super-extremal configuration (and thus no entropy).
The reason we need to investigate black holes and, more to the point, singularities, is because in order to advance quantum physics any further, we need to understand how gravity and general relativity fits in with quantum mechanics.
As far as parallel universes are concerned, I'm not up to speed with the LHC's proposed experiment, but they are likely attempting to measure any appreciable energy loss over an Einstein-Rosen Bridge contained within two short-lived ring singularities that are quantumly entangled.
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Electron volts and "volts" are not directly comparable as eVs in this case are used to measure mass-energy and volts are used to measure current/flow.
Electron volts are more comparable to joules, or to keep with the theme, watts, and one can directly convert units in this case.
One trillion electron volts is equal to 1.6x10^-10 watts.
Or in essence, not very much power.
The usefulness of the measurement is that we are probing particle mass-energies roughly 1,000 times greater than that of a proton.
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I'm pretty sure I learned some of this from Interstellar.
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I'm no scientist, but am i the only one that thinks this is a bad idea? I mean, do we really want to create mini black holes and leak gravity into parallel universes?
I wish they'd postpone this a few months too. I'd love to win a ring before they end the world.
Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days
SCIENTISTS conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider next week hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own.
By PAUL BALDWIN
PUBLISHED: 14:49, Fri, Mar 20, 2015
33
Getty
Collision course: Large Hadron Collider could discover parallel universe
The staggeringly complex LHC ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland, will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid to detect - or even create - miniature black holes.
If successful a completely new universe will be revealed – rewriting not only the physicsbooks but the philosophy books too.
It is even possible that gravity from our own universe may ‘leak’ into this parallel universe, scientists at the LHC say.
The experiment is sure to inflame alarmist critics of the LHC, many of whom initially warned the high energy particle collider would spell the end of our universe with the creation a black hole of its own.
But so far Geneva remains intact and comfortably outside the event horizon.
Indeed the LHC has been spectacularly successful. First scientists proved the existence of the elusive Higgs boson ‘God particle’ - a key building block of the universe - and it is seemingly well on the way to nailing ‘dark matter’ - a previously undetectable theoretical possibility that is now thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe.
But next week’s experiment is considered to be a game changer.
Mir Faizal, one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, said: “Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height], parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions.
“We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.
"Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.
"This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.
“This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.
Getty
Atom art: An image of two protons smashed together at the LHC
“As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.
“We have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in ‘gravity's rainbow’ [a new scientific theory].
“If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity's rainbow and extra dimensions are correct."
When the LHC is fired up the energy is measured in Tera electron volts – a TeV is 1,000,000,000,000, or one trillion, electron Volts
So far, the LHC has searched for mini black holes at energy levels below 5.3 TeV.
But the latest study says this is too low.
Instead, the model predicts that black holes may form at energy levels of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions.
Bad idea. Didn't these idiots watch Fringe?!?!