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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is not only about physics research. The complexity of those projects fund hundreds of sectors and push forward new technologies who will have many commercial use.

...Also they've confirmed the existence of this little thing called Higgs Boson which field define pretty much reality, soo... not exactly wasted time.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hopefully they can finally manufacture black holes. Because that would be totally safe for everyone 😉.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Don't worry! Though black holes may sound scary, microscopic black holes, the type that could hypothetically be produced by high-energy particle collisions such as this, would pretty much instantaneously (in approximately 10-27 seconds) evaporate due to the emission of Hawking radiation, before they could "suck up" anything. Cosmic rays of far higher intensities than what we could produce routinely collide with atoms in Earth's atmosphere, so microscopic black holes could be happening daily in our atmosphere, we just never see them because they're far too small and evaporate instantly.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe that's what is happening to the ozone layer.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Well no danger of that. We certainly cannot do it on terrestrial scales. No way, no how. Not even with fusion and a collider ring wrapped around the equator. It still requires vastly higher energies.

Even if we could make a kugelblitz black hole right here, it would instantly fall out of reach through the Earth while barely interacting at all with any other particles. On the Planck scale, particles are mostly empty space. We wouldn't even get to study it.

The best way to build one is to surround a star with millions of orbital mirrors, then focus all the light onto a single point in space, with an accuracy of nanometers, if not picometers. Focusing enough energy on a single point will cause a tiny black hole to form. It's probably impossible to do by accident.

[-] Cyclist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'll show you my kugelblitz black hole.

[-] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are plenty of natural particles colliders, such as black holes or very dense stars, that are way more powerful than our engineered particle colliders, which (observationally) don't create black holes around them

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They posit that yes, black holes could be formed, but they’re so small they evaporate pretty much instantly. They don’t have the mass to survive.

[-] Rinna@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Similar reactions produced by particle accelerators are constantly happening all around us, and isn't just limited to extreme conditions like around black holes. This is just the same thing but at a much smaller and more controlled scale, and last I checked the sun hasn't produced any world ending black holes despite the far more extreme reactions constantly happening within it. A man even survived a high energy proton beam from one of those accelerators passing through his brain and was able to continue his career in quantum physics, so at that point I doubt they're capable of anything world ending.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's 1 in a trillion trillion chance! So we should be glad we're not all beautiful beach body people married to the most wonderful and irresistibly sexy megalonymphomaniac people that just want to hump us every single second of the rest of our lives in all possible ways, all of us 8 billion people together. Because if that ever happened, it could only mean one thing, the end of the world as we know it would be coming in the form of a tiny black hole.

[-] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome. And with reality defined my daily existance and cost of living is. ... Exactly the same and killing me. 🙃

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Blame your govern, not the science. Science give you medicine, electricity, internet, and all the device you use daily. Your govern put unfair taxes on everything and allow the corporation to exploit your work.

[-] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

And bigger understanding the gifts, or gravitons helps me how?

Tbh I think its cool as fuck. But playing the role of my socialist SO. Who will have this response when I show her this meme.

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Experiment > Understand > Practical use

For example, did you know that the super-small processor that allow us to have a smartphone so small to be pocket-size is only possible thanks to knowledge we have of quantum physic?

https://culturico.com/2020/11/26/your-smartphone-knows-physics-the-science-inside-mobile-devices/

Or how physics discoveries can be fundamental for medicine?

https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Role-of-Physics-in-Medicine.aspx

Physic is the "Manual of Construction" of this Universe, more pages we find, more the things we can do.

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