In December the Large Hadron Collider is poised to start up again. If all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.
Scientist hope to produce the hypothesized Higgs boson. But this might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
Nonsense, you say? Not to some distinguished physicists.
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1 comment(s):
Gerard
This is a rerun post. Therefore I will post my same comment as last time.
The purpose of the LHC is to reproduce conditions similar to
those in the very early universe (first few seconds). Scientists hope to
find the Higgs particle and prove super symmetry. There are some theories
that predict that there could have been billions of tiny black holes in the
very early universe, but since black holes evaporate (a.k.a. hawking
radiation) none would have
survived till present times. Black holes will not be created in the LHC and
if they were they would almost instantaneously evaporate because of their
extremely small mass. And if for some reason it did not evaporate it would
not suck the world in like the video, black holes have an event horizon
which is the distance from the black hole where the gravitational pull is
too strong for anything to escape. A super tiny black hole would not have
the gravitational potential to pull anything in, the event horizon would be
in the black hole. Electromagnetic forces would play a much more important
role.
Been a while since I posted, but I still stop by.
LEO
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