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Friday, February 20, 2009

Facts about black holes and the Large Hadron Collider

I should've probably known about these things earlier.

1. "First of all, Mother Nature can hurl cosmic rays of astronomically greater energy than anything the puny Large Hadron Collider can produce. In fact, the LHC is actually a pea shooter compared to what the universe has been hurling at the earth for billions of years. Yet the earth is still here."

2. "[T]hese mini black holes are subatomic in size, so tiny they are invisible, like an electron or proton. Their entire energy would not even light up a single light bulb. Black holes, like cats, come in all sizes, from ferocious tigers and lions to purring pussy cats."

3. "[T]hese mini black holes are unstable and decay much too quickly to do any damage. These subatomic black holes simply evaporate away (via something called Hawking radiation) faster than the blink of an eye."

And it's backed up by possibly the coolest scientist that ever lived, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, so I trust him the most.

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