What fresh scientific horror keeps you up at night? (9)

1 Name: SkyQueen.cc!K8Ul.7H5Ik : 2007-09-23 04:45 ID:pCcXjPAa [Del]

Does anyone lose sleep over the thought the earth could be swallowed at any moment by a man made black hole?

That and the loss of red heads have made me lose many nights sleep lately.

2 Name: Anonymous : 2007-09-23 13:35 ID:8MbnWo2m [Del]

gack, foiled by quantum mechnics again. To make a start with my reading up on physics to see whether I could entertain myself with losing sleep over manmade black holes I started reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton

Instead of writing a thesis physics phd's should just be forced to write a piece of extrapolating hard science fiction to receive their master's. That way it's easier to comprehend 1. its awesomeness 2. its destructive potential.

For now I'll just stick to the loss of readheads to make me lose sleep.

3 Name: Anonymous : 2007-09-24 11:21 ID:XBb4fp/y [Del]

Fuck thats dense for someone with no grounding in hard sciences. Translate to working class please.

4 Name: Anonymous : 2007-09-24 17:19 ID:7NmPolkB [Del]

>>1

Everything will be over so quickly you don't care.

πάντα ρει

5 Name: Anonymous : 2007-09-24 23:13 ID:yLxJ2p+9 [Del]

>>1
Umm, no? I assume you're talking about the LHC. Given that collisions with energies considerably in excess of what it can generate happen on the moon etc daily, if it was going to be a problem we would have been wiped out a long time ago.

If you want something to worry about death from space try gamma ray bursters, uncharted comets / asteroids, nearby stars going supernova ...

>>2
Some of the really nerdy hard SF found in early compilations / pulp magazines is about as impenetrable. Basically : we think there might be a particle of gravity (graviton), but it doesn't really fit standard models and is almost impossible to detect. There are another 2 theories to explain it, loop quantum gravity and string theory, but both have so far proved impossible to test.

6 Name: Anonymous : 2007-09-25 03:05 ID:8MbnWo2m [Del]

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/

animated

Don't be the dull guy at parties anymore! Know your relativity and pick up the chicks with your intricate knowledge of quantum physics.

7 Name: Anonymous : 2007-09-25 16:26 ID:8MbnWo2m [Del]

>>5
Maybe he was talking about LHC, but for me it's more like a general unease of someone poking holes in other branes (or whatever funky theory that can lead to mass desctruction) to find where all the gravity went, and suddenly it all bursts back in a chain reaction and all you can hear is the sound of the solar system being crushed not propagating through the vacuum.

8 Name: So-I-Herd-U-Liek!CRackYUuGo : 2007-09-27 22:55 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>7
Well, it's not like we'd have chance to know about it ... the universe makes no sense anyway, I doubt we could make it much more fucked up than it is already.

9 Name: Anonymous : 2007-10-10 17:45 ID:G3z07Ql2 [Del]

i think it would be kickass if LHC destroyed humanity

a pretty good way to go, i'd say

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