LOL – Scientists poking their fingers into the electric light socket of the universe, and playing with the switch to see what happens again…:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:
“Mini black holes” is a good one – black holes are all small from a certain point of view (if the theories are right, the space taken up by the collapsed neutron star is tiny due to the gravitational force). Can you have a “small” gravity field and it still be strong enough that neither matter or light can escape it’s effect? :laugh_at::weee: :weee: :weee:
What they mean is they don’t know what will happen, but it’s going to be entertaining finding out….
The one that always makes me chuckle is the first test of large scale nuclear fusion (otherwise known as the H-Bomb). Apparently, they had worked out the odds of the chain reaction going critical, and igniting all of the hydrogen in the earths atmosphere beforehand, and come up with a figure of 300,000:1…:hopeless::hopeless::hopeless: .
I voted for it being essential research btw… Particle physics is endlessly entertaining IMO – watching scientists scratch their heads in total bafflement after having made some exotic quantum particle do something it’s not supposed to be able to do is worth any number of CERN’s…
And they do have useful moments too – remember, it was a scientist at CERN who came up with the idea of the WWW. 😉 :bounce_g::bounce_g::bounce_g:
