h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My favorite moment in modern philosophy was the one in which philosophers finally allowed that we do, in fact, exist.

yes. and it lasted until the day the pilosophers faculty at oxford finally realized that life has absolutely no meaning at all

I know it was something like that, but to give it a town statussounds better to me and it helps my reputation as an idiot

plusI was also tangling up with Berne

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

Incidentally, the system was shut down for a week because of a glitch with a 30-ton transformer. But they've fixed the problem, and are gearing up to try it again.

transformers! robots in disguise and a 30 tonner at that

If something is implied,it remains supposition.
Until a particle is seen,it may not exist!.
In both sentences there is no definitive term.
As the rely upon the interpretation of a observer and time and environment are involved.
Should we then commit to a statement of "now", for within "now" infinite variables exist.

sorted! after the 2 month shut down because 2 magnets overheated -shame.
IF it doescreate little tiny black holesthey could put one in a black bin liner and send it towards an earth crossing asteroid - theory = swallow it up and the hole continue its journey away from earth, therefore saving us

or even have one at the bottom of your gardenno need for landfill

what's the big problem anyway? should CERN really create a black hole they can just throw it into the nearest wormhole, right?

Let's hope they create a pink hole with mauve trimmings - something pretty like that. And one that's had its dinner, so it won't swallow us all up.

Seriously, there are black holes all over the place up there, and this universe hasn't ended yet. I'm a believer in multiple universes myself, anyway, but the trouble is we might be tad too close to this one. Multiverse theory does not rule out death, although some dayh it might. Not that I really believe one will be created, since we won't get enough speed (x fingers). The Credit Crunch is terrible enough for some people, let alone a Big crunch.

Jab

I continue to insist that black holes as we know (or suspect) them, require huge amounts of matter that generate enough gravity to over come the structural integrity of atom walls. Tiny particles just do not have enough mass for that.

The problem with creation (last time round) is that the Swiss Fire Brigade wasn't on hand to damp things down when they went so drastically wrong!

Black Holes, should remain “Theoretical”.
Einstein didn’t believe in them although he predicted there existence, clever chap.

John Wheeler quipped “They have no hair”.

“A spinning point of infinite density surrounded by an event horizon from which nothing can escape not even light“, sound more like my wife’s purse.

I read that the only way to know for sure is to drop an undergraduate in one and see whether his cellphone signal cuts off.

"I read that the only way to know for sure is to drop an undergraduate in one and see whether his cellphone signal cuts off" [Winternights]

That's very funny! It's probably very tricky to pull off, though. Getting close enough to the event horizon to drop the undergraduate off makes it possible that you'll get sucked in as well. If, that is, the black hole really exists... There's a radical new theory that says black holes *don't* exist.

That’s going to be difficult now , just commissioned my “ most have “ T shirts, great logo, “Black Holes are for REALLY just not for Christmas”

imagine there is a black hole in your christmas stocking

Ive had one in my wallet for long enough

i'm afraid all of mine are interconnected with my bank and the tax office

Paul - the trouble is that particles approaching almost the speed of light are approaching almost infinite mass. Speed x velocity. But it's all 'almost' this time.

Jab

I think we are missing a pointno one has asked the molecules etc, if THEY want to be smashed together and annihilated from known existence, I mean! look how angry 1 atom got when it was just split in half