17-July-2008, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by pghnative
ummm....what???
Top scientists wouldn't be surprised to see red dragons pop out of an experiment? I cannot believe that such a statement was made seriously.
(If all of the energy of one of these collisions was converted to mass, would it represent a visible amount of matter?)
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Actually this from the Rupee News:-
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Lisa Randall, a Harvard physicist whose work helped fuel the speculation about black holes at the collider, pointed out in a paper last year that black holes would probably not be produced at the collider after all, although other effects of so-called quantum gravity might appear.
As part of the safety assessment report, Dr. Mangano and Steve Giddings of the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been working intensely for the last few months on a paper exploring all the possibilities of these fearsome black holes. They think there are no problems but are reluctant to talk about their findings until they have been peer reviewed, Dr. Mangano said.
Dr. Arkani-Hamed said concerning worries about the death of the Earth or universe, “Neither has any merit.” He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, “the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”
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There was another site that said red dragons but it may have been blog entries.
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