Re: OT: The end of the world in roughly 3 hours

In article <48c8864d$0$12382$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
AEF wrote:

End of the world? I'll bet anyone, any amount, that it won't be! ;-)


This is a very unfair bet since in the event that you are wrong, you
will not exist and will therefore not be able to pay the "any amount" to
the other party.

Note that there is good reason for the ring being burried 100m
underground. Should magnets fail and a single particle at full speed hit
the wall, the collision would be similar to a runaway freight train
hitting a wall at 150km/h. (or so I read).

Makes one wonder if they have a big UPS to keep the magnets going should
there be a power failure :-)

BTW, is there some simple explanation of how they take gaseous H2 from
a bottle and produce protons in some holding field prior to being
accelerated in that ring ?

BTW, heard an intersting concept in an interview. The theory is that the
big bang generated the particle physics equivalent to stem cells: a
generic mass. This was later converted (via other collisions or other
mechanism) into a variety of atoms which make up the periodic table of
elements.

The big bang pretty much just created the lighter elements upto Lithium. This
is thought to have occurred in a number of stages with a quark-gluon plasma
cooling to produce protons and neutrons which then combined to form these
atomic nuclei.

The abundances of hydrogen, deuterium and helium in the Universe fit
pretty closely with the calculations though I believe there is a bit of a
discrepency with the abundance of lithium. The rest of the elements are
believed to have been created by fusion inside stars (elements upto Iron being
created during the life of the star whilst heavier elements were created during
supernova explosions which also acted to spread the elements across the
universe).

It is quite likely that the quark-gluon plasma itself formed from the cooling
of a pre-existing stage consisting of even more fundamental entities eg
strings.


David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University
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