LHC to Restart In November

[ceterus]

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/07/1559240/LHC-To-Start-Back-Up-In-November-At-Half-Power?art_pos=2

"The Large Hadron Collider, smasher of particles, will get another chance to prove itself this November. The restart will begin with tests at half power, a mere 7 trillion electron volts (TeV), and ramp up slowly to the designed goal of 14 TeV."


Any thoughts, arguments, rants etc?

-ceterus

[melancholeric]

It'll cause a massive black hole that'll swallow the earth.

I hope.

[Technical]

I was thinking maybe a small black hole...How much mass do you need for one o' them things, exactly?

[melancholeric]

Actually I don't think you'd need much, it would just have to be really dense. And, I think a really small one would disappear too soon to cause any real damage.

But I might be way off, black holes aren't exactly my field.

edit: looks like I was somewhat right:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=56143


The current theoretical limit for minimum size of a black hole is the plank mass - about 21.77 micrograms. That yields a schwarzchild radius of a planck length.

I think the proper question that needs to be asked is: What is the theoretical minimum size that a black hole can be that can sustain itself?

The problem is Hawking Radiation, the smaller the black hole the more Hawking Radiation it releases, and the quicker the black hole dissipates. So, at some point the black hole is going to be releasing so much energy out that it will collapse, explode, dance a merry jig (I'm not entirely sure about what will happen). I heard once that the theoretical minimum is somewhere around the mass of Mount Everest, but I could be wrong.

[mgb]

It'll cause a massive black hole that'll swallow the earth.

I hope.

It's the lever!

[melancholeric]

It's the lever!

But that only destroys humanity, not the whole planet.

[Technical]

Humanity can be replaced. I don't know about Earth though...It may be unique.

[Kazan]

YAY! I love the LHC.

I will be having a party for its re-starting.

Fact Check: It's not going to create a blackhole, and what it would create is the same types of small unstable phenomenon created in the upper atmostphere every second due to particles hitting each other at high speeds. If you don't believe me, go hear it from the scientists.