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Carbon 60 wrote:
> http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/07/18/stinwenws02029.html?999
Follow-up article:
http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/284/science/Defusing_fear_of_Big_Bang_machine+.shtml
I wonder: if the collision of two elementary charged particles generates a
huge amount of energy within a tiny space, what would happen if someone just
happened to be sitting in the collision chamber at the instant of collision?
- Would he or she instantiate a new and sentient parallel universe,
irrationally bent upon building an accelerator which could collide spamcake
particles?
- Would they go out in a shower of sparks and huge bouts of flame?
- Would the intense electrical and magnetic fields simply kill them first?
- Could this be used as a murder weapon in an Asimov-esque mystery? "There's
nothing here but this tiny pile of highly-charged dark matter, Sarge." "Yes
but what's this...? It has an autographed photo of Hari Seldon and a smudge
of lipstick on its collar!"
> Strange quarks are cool.
And strange quirks are called "undocumented features". :-P
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| Are the Americans gonna destroy the Earth? Heavens, no. How silly. Now go back to sleep. Want a Big Mac? (...) I don't know. I feel like a strangelet already. (...) Depending on the day, I already do. (...) Heavens, that would make life difficult. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hemorrhoids, you silly.. Oh wait.. sitting in it, not on it. Oh, well that's different. (...) Most everything collides with spamcake particles. That's a cheap shot and you know it. (...) No. Actually, huge bouts of sparks and showers of flame. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Define "huge". No accelerator is capable of generating even 10e-100 of the energy used in the BB, as far as I can tell. (...) First, they would die of the deep vacuum in said collision chamber. Then, they'd suddenly start feeling warm and (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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