Here is the device that they are going to use:
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Here is the device that they are going to use:
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Some info from the internets:
does anyone know what a Large Hadron Collider is? Personally I have no idea but apparently scientists are building one in Switzerland and it might be able to create black holes. Wikipedia doesn't seem too worried about it, but I am. Shouldn't there be laws preventing something like that? All I'm saying is that if the world ends because of some Swiss Large Hadron Collider, I'm gonna be super pissed. Solving String Theory just isn't worth the apocalypse.The LHC is designed to take large hadrons (such as protons and neutrons), accelerate them to 99.999999% of the speed of light in the collider, smash them together to allow CERNoids to study the detritus. … uh, wait just a minute…perhaps they meant that they plan to take regular hadrons and smash them together in a large collider … it’s so confusing.And the (potentially) bad news is that there is a vanishingly small, aka teentsy weentsy in technical terms, chance that Large Hadron Collider could destroy Earth. How so? The physics of TeV colliders like LHC predicts that they should produce about 1 mini black hole per second even after allowing for the effects of Voloshin Suppression. The good part of the bad news is that these BHs will have a very short life span, on the order of 10^-26 seconds and so will evaporate almost instantaneously. Some have estimated that the chances of planetary destruction at about 10^-40 … which is reassuringly low.Associated with this Higgs field would be Higgs particles, which could be produced by the collisions in the accelerator. One physicist has called the Higgs particle the "God Particle."
A few non-scientists have been worried that physicists are getting a little too close to god for comfort. They're worried that this experiment could destroy the Earth, because one possibility is that the machine will make miniature black holes. De Rujula describes miniature black holes as particles of extraordinary density compared to usual objects.
He says black holes would certainly be interesting, because they would be evidence for extra tiny dimensions of space-time. But he doesn't think they are likely to appear. And if they do, they'll be harmless.
"Those black holes will not be dangerous ones of science fiction that eat up everything," De Rujula promises. "Being so small they sort of break into pieces."
Less of a long shot is the idea that the collisions will produce things like the "dark matter" particles that physicists are confident they see affecting the motion of galaxies. They have seen the effects of dark matter, but they have never known what the particles actually are.On 21 March, 2008, a complaint requesting an injunction to halt the LHC's startup was filed by a group of seven concerned individuals against CERN and its American collaborators, the US Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, before the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.[16][24] Following the publication of the LSAG report,[20] the US Government called for summary dismissal of the suit against the government defendants.
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Also if you would like to help:
The LHC Computing Grid is being constructed to handle the massive amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider. It incorporates both private fibre optic cable links and existing high-speed portions of the public Internet, to get data from CERN to academic institutions around the world.
The distributed computing project LHC@home was started to support the construction and calibration of the LHC. The project uses the BOINC platform to simulate how particles will travel in the tunnel. With this information, the scientists will be able to determine how the magnets should be calibrated to gain the most stable "orbit" of the beams in the ring.
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Cold Fusion is dead. It has no basis in scientific study anymore. No theories have produced even a modicum of results in the field, and it doesn't look like we'll ever see any. It is already in the heap of failed theories for 99.99% of theoretical physicists. Hot fusion is doable, but we are still at least 15 years away from it even being done correctly at the ITER plant in France. Even then if it succeeds, we probably won't see mass production of the ITER reactor until we're almost dead.
Our best hope right now to relieve the environment of its woes is cheap, well made fission reactors in combination with solar panels all over the fucking place. GE and several other companies already have tons of very solid reactors they are able to market to anybody that has the money and the patients to deal with the government. We really haven't built any new reactors since the 70's, and the government makes it extremely difficult to do so. This needs to change if we're to make any sort of progress. Wind power and solar are not enough by themselves to help us now.
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If we could fix the way we get energy and exploit all of our resources:
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What do you thing of this?
Researchers at MIT supposedly came up with a very cheap catalyst that can work in neutural Ph and room temperature water!
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It is a device that will use electricity to split an H2O molecule into H and O while using very little power.Originally Posted by Steamer
Unfortunately the tech for this is way, way, way far out and the cost still to high. To run the solar needed for a 300K home in GA in the summer you would need like 80K with of solar to run with no reserve (before tax breaks). Also keep in mid that WE ALL pay those tax breaks so it is not like we are saving any money for the society as a whole. In other words the PPK is still way to high. Also the output is still DC from fulecells and from solar so you would need a converter also the generation is not ever 100% stable from either so investment in battries would still be needed to regulate the voltage.
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So here are some interesting things:
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Oh yea that is HDMI...
The Tegra 600 and Tegra 650 can run Quake 3 with AA at more than 35FPS
Display support for up to 1080p HDMI, WSXGA+ LCD, SXGA CRT, and NTSC/PAL TV-Out
Ten times smaller than Intel's Atom platform
The low power consumption of NVIDIA Tegra-based devices will allow for over 30 hours of HD video playback and over 130 hours of audio.
NVIDIA Tegra based devices like MIDs will be available later this year for $200-$250. The product will also end up in smartphones, multimedia players and GPS units. NVIDIA talks about devices with screen sizes ranging from 4" to 12" so we're not just talking about tiny devices here.
http://www.youtube.com/tegrabynvidia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/new...news=1&bbcws=1
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