Supercolliding things

[amethyst73]

As many of you know, the Large Hadron Supercollider fires up real soon now, trying to make little black holes or the Higgs boson or something. It got asked about at the Ask a Scientist thread over on the Librivox forums, and Steampunk gave a nice description of what might happen if a tiny black hole actually got created.

He also posted a link to this explanatory cartoon. Even non-scientists are likely to be amused. :)

Comments

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I think that link is geborken.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Fixed, sorry.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Durn, we're all still here! So much for getting sucked into a mini black hole in my sleep. Or maybe we did, and it just looks exactly the same on the other side?

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

I guess we'll never know! (Link to cartoon fixed btw)

[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's brilliant. I have to admit there's a part of me that was hoping for the black hole... >.>