What happens if the LHC goes wrong?
Hi Dove… I think I saw your answer on another question about the LHC… I’m only 13, but I’m here to tell you NOTHING the LHC can do will end the world. If it goes wrong, we wasted billions of dollars, and I’m going to be mad- I’ve been waiting for the LHC to fire up since 2003. But I’ll survive. Even if Stephen Hawking is wrong (which is extremely unlikely seeing as we have an enormous amount of evidence to support the theory of Hawking Radiation), the black hole will leave Earth as soon as it is created. The LHC will accelerate particles very close to the speed of light, at about 99.99%. So when they are created (IF they are created), there is no need to worry about them because they will instantly be pushed into outer-space. After about 2 seconds, they will be farther away from Earth than the moon. But it is highly unlikely that they will live that long. The actual figure is around .0000000000000000000001 seconds before it evaporates. It evaporates this fast because IF they are cr
Even if Hawking is wrong (he’s been wrong before), there’s still the cosmic ray argument. Cosmic rays have energies from below what the LHC can produce to much, much higher – and everything in between. If the LHC can produce black holes or strange matter, so can cosmic rays. But cosmic rays have been hitting the Earth for billions of years. And not just one or two – several have gone through your body while you read this. The Earth is still here, so there must be a zero chance of any kind of problem. When i was 17, i learned computer programming. My advice, get a significant other.
What the LHC at CERN is doing is shooting particles at very high speeds (roughly 97% of the speed of light) at each other and seeing what happens. This happens every single day on our planet. The sun sends out particles at similar speeds that collide with the earth’s atmosphere every day. The northern lights or Aurora Borealis is exactly this phenomenon and having seen them I can tell you it’s one of the most beautiful things you will ever see. Should the LHC create micro singularities, the nature of these singularities suggests that they would cease to exist long before they ever became a problem.
What if Stephen Hawkings was really wrong. What if instead no black hole, no big bang, and no stanglet is ever created? What happens if the only thing that happens is that protons split apart into quarks and other subatomic particles? Then it means I am right. It means that I, yes I, am the next genius. No, nothing bad is going to happen. Black holes occur when there is enough matter and speed to cause a certain F, then the stuff breaks down onto itself causing a black hole. This is going to be really hard for the LHC to cause considering that the matter is much smaller. F=MA Normal black hole has just as much A as the LHC, but many times more matter. In other words, nothing will happen!
