Chinahand Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Being boring - Wiki discusses the safety risks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeddan Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Being boring - Wiki discusses the safety risks CERN's review concludes, after detailed analysis, that "there is no basis for any conceivable threat" from strangelets, black holes, or monopoles.[20][21] However, the concern about the verity of Hawking radiation was not addressed.. The risk of a doomsday scenario was indicated by Sir Martin Rees, with respect to the RHIC, as being a one in fifty million chance[22], and by Professor Frank Close, with regards to (dangerous) strangelets, that 'the chance of this happening is like you winning the major prize on the lottery 3 weeks in succession; the problem is that people believe it is possible to win the lottery 3 weeks in succession'.[23]. Accurate assessments of these risks are impossible due to the currently incomplete, or even hypothetically flawed, standard model of particle physics 1/50m chance, or even probability of winning major prize in the lottery 3 weeks in succession is entirely different from 'no conceivable threat'. Would you sign up for an experiment which has a 1/50m chance of killing you and your children and everyone you know without a compelling reason to do this? Does anyone know the effect of Hawking radiation even if it does exist? Might it go through lead, leap tall buildings and zap everything within 10000 miles? Maybe no one knows for sure - I guess the point is to try it and see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieK Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Does anyone know the effect of Hawking radiation even if it does exist? Might it go through lead, leap tall buildings and zap everything within 10000 miles? Maybe no one knows for sure - I guess the point is to try it and see what happens As far as I know, Hawking radiation refers more to the process than the actual content: being made up of thermal radiation culminating with a brief burst of gamma rays when the black hole finally expires - nothing particularly unusual. Exotic particles are however likely to arise from a similar process as the creation of micro black holes, which on a basic level consists of smashing things together and seeing what happens (as good a job description for a physicist as any). The main attraction in doing so is to refine the standard model we have for the universe by proving that certain particles the model predicts or hints at exist (the most famous probably being the Higgs boson), and hence giving us a greater insight into the contruction of nature and how the universe "looked" at a time near to the big bang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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