It all started when it was announced that the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Among the great expectations and hopes of the scientific community for the operation of the accelerator there were also some individual voices expressing concern. Some experts have reported that by violently colliding particles inside such accelerators it is theoretically possible to create “black holes». Their colleagues' response was that, even in the (unlikely) event that this would happen, the "black holes" that would be created would be tiny, have lifetimes of a few milliseconds, and disappear before they could be...swallowed the planet.
The recipe"
"Black holes" are usually created when a massive but aged star collapses at its own weight. What is left is a point in the space where the density of matter is infinite. And this superconcentration of matter creates a gravitational field so powerful that nothing, even light, can escape its deadly attraction.
Based on Einstein's theory of mass equivalence and energys, a "black hole" could theoretically be created in the laboratory using not mass but energy. This could happen during the collision of particles that have negligible weight but move at high speed and therefore have high kinetic energy. Newer studies have shown that the energy required to give birth to so-called mini black holes is less than originally estimated. But it remains not only high but unapproachable for the data of the LHC or any other of the existing accelerators
The "strange" threat
The announcement by the staff of the Realistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US that they will make a big upgrade to him it provoked the reaction of the famous British astronomer Martin Rees, who brought the catastrophic scenarios back to the fore. Rees argues that the accelerator upgrade and the experiments planned to be done with it are likely to create mini "black holes" and "exotic" subatomic particles such as the "strangelet". It is a hypothetical tiny particle of "strange matter" that contains nearly equal numbers of different kinds of quarks. The particle has received the Greek name paradoxon. According to Rees, the creation of paradoxes is likely to turn the Earth into an inert hyperdense sphere only 100 meters in diameter. Other proponents of the same theory argue that the paradoxons will not make the Earth a superdense sphere but will turn everything on it into some "strange" kind of matter, ultimately destroying the Earth. planet us. Even if we accept that the paradox may eventually destroy the Earth, the... paradox is that those who predicted such a thing will not have time to be vindicated since they will have been "swallowed" by their prophecy.
Posted in HELIOS PLUS on 24 February 2014
