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EHM-1883 Matt:
I sometimes question that aswell Javier. Since the Light is sucked back in due to the Gravitational pull, it must give off Black light, but black light doesn't exist.

I agree entirely with Javier. I have a feeling that it is too early to carry out this experiment, and I would like it put together, but not used this year. I think they should try their best to find all the possibilities of what could happen, as the scientists are very vague about what could happen.

@ Robert: I am not great at my knowledge of Black holes, but I thought it wasn't the size that mattered, it was the gravitational pull? I'm not sure though.

EHM-1001 Robert:
Maybe I can answer that ;D

What you see with your eyes is always the light that is reflected from the objects around you. As the black hole sucks everything in, you will not see any light from where it is located: there will be dark. I guess that is where the name came from ;)

I am not a scientist myself, but logically the size of the black hole should be compared by its gravitational strength.

Another thing:

As I know, many many such testing plant (so called synchrotron) was built since decades, and still running and scientist continously working in them. They are simply speeding up particles to "unthinkable speeds" and collide them to analize and understand the materials, the energies and the world in a smaller dimension. Maybe that is why I am not aware of this new facility at all.

EHM-0654 Murray:
I'm not going to get into a slanging match with any member, but the (frankly) tool that wrote the petition could use a basic understanding of physics. The LHC will take a pair of proton packets (we're talking mere nanograms of hydrogen electrons, glued together by the weak atomic force) and fire them at each other at a fraction of the speed of light.

Now, Einstein gave us the important bit - E = mc^2 (and yes, that should be a superscript '2' - squared). To give these electrons enough mass for them to spontaneously collapse into more than a microscopic black hole (which evaporate due to the theoretical energy output of blackholes), they'd need to be travelling a lot closer to C (the speed of light) than LHC will be able to achieve.

I'll not be signing this petition, and if I can't find one in support of LHC, I'll write me own... ;)

For some believable science on this subject, work through http://christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com/search/label/Large%20Hadron%20Collider

EHM-1671 Ben:
I think the most important thing to realize here, is that if a small black hole IS created (which I have no confidence in due to Murray's outstanding explanation for all of us who are just awful at Physics and Chemistry ;)) everyone needs to come to New Zealand.

Everything happens here 20 years later ;D

EHM-1798 Conrad:
I wont sign the partition either , i quite agree with this project, and will wait to see the result, should be interesting.

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