>The countdown timer was set to the 15th of May because there was no definite time given for the actual activation, recent events show that CERN wont be dividing by zero until much later on in the year, so now the countdown timer will be reset again and will be continually tweaked to go by the latest info that CERN are releasing.
>So sorry to disappoint you all, but you wont be dying tomorrow.
>To: lhcb-general
>Subject: LHC schedule confirmed
>
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>We would like to inform you on the conlusions of a meeting called by
>the
>Director General, where the schedule for the closure of the LHC
>machine
>and the experimental areas was confirmed as follows:
>
>End June 08: LHC machine (all 8 sectors) cold
>Mid July 08: All experimental areas closed
>End July 08: First beam injection
> Если и будет черная дыра то на столько маленькая, что моментально испариться излучением Хокинга.
Блин, никто не помнит чтоли??? Пару лет назад была новость, что где-то в ускорителе столкнули атомы золота и получили искусственную чёрную дыру, которая благополучно испарилась.
The countdown timer was set to the 15th of May because there was no definite time given for the actual activation, recent events show that CERN wont be dividing by zero until much later on in the year, so now the countdown timer will be reset again and will be continually tweaked to go by the latest info that CERN are releasing.
So sorry to disappoint you all, but you wont be dying tomorrow.
Первый луч запланирован на 8 июня, так что откуда высосан каунтдавн мне не вполне понятно.
P.S.: Кстати о чернобыле. Там новый саркофаг построили/строят? А то хотели в этом году поехать пофотографировать, в случае другого саркофага самое интересное идёт лесом.
I. Arguments for danger in LHC particle accelerator experiments
"In the 27-kilometer-long circular tunnel that held its predecessor, the LHC will be the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. It will smash fundamental particles into one another at energies like those of the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, when the temperature of the Universe was about ten thousand trillion degrees Centigrade." [Ref. 5]
1. There is a high probability that micro black holes (MBHs) will be produced in the LHC. A reasonable estimation of the probability that theories with (4+d) dimensions are valid could be more than 60%. The CERN study indicates in this case a copious production of MBHs at the LHC. [Ref. 1] One MBH could be produced every second. [Ref. 4 & Ref. 5]
2. The CERN study indicates that MBHs present no danger because they will evaporate with Hawking evaporation. [Ref. 1] However, Hawking evaporation has never been tested. In several surveys, physicists have estimated a non trivial probability that Hawking evaporation will not work. [Ref. 9] My estimate of its risk of Hawking evaporation failure is 20%, or perhaps as much as 30%.
The following points assume MBH production, and they assume that Hawking evaporation will fail.
Охохохо... А каковы там шансы что при кривых руках оператора/глюке в системе управления ядерный реактор взорвётся? И сколько их взорвалось из хрен знает скольки построенных в мире? Целых один?