![]() I have no fear whatsoever of the LHC experiment or, rather, I can’t give even the slightest nod to the possibility it could go sour. That was an excellent watch, and I agree with your write up too. I’m constantly on the lookout for great short sci-fi films and this is definitely one of them. Thanks for bringing my attention to this. (But with an undoubtedly higher budget.) Nice. The scientist within the short film is just dead on when talking to the the reporters just moments before the experiment begins:Ī bit like an 8-minute version of Primer for supercolliders. I couldn’t get the imagery of a time-dimensional vortex sucking our world in and warping us into slightly different versions of our version of reality. However, I’m inclined to at least give a nod to Bubba’s fears because days before the recent collider experiments I discovered the short film Rift - a frightening piece of Science Fiction described by the producers as “A surreal interpretation of Pandora’s Box about a scientist whose failed experiment results in the formation of a black hole that alters time and space, creating a chaotic Twilight-Zonesque nightmare.”Īfter viewing this short, it was extremely eerie to hear very similar dialog on the NPR broadcast just days later as I made my morning commute. I would normally give zero weight to the argument that this experiment is bad based on the acknowledgment that the machine does have the ability to create black holes, which is just enough ammunition to fuel a negative opinion and protests led by Bubba the slack-jawed redneck with 3.2 front teeth. Physicists say there is essentially no chance that a black hole would form and start gobbling up the matter around it.” “…researchers say there is a small chance that the collider could produce black holes, but if it did, they would likely be extremely tiny, and last only a fraction of a second “” they would essentially evaporate. Rather than dismiss this observation as blown out of proportion, NPR decided to touch on the black hole fears in their own report: So unfortunately “black hole doomsday device” is usually associated with the “Large Hadron Collider” by the majority of ill-informed people. To be clear, this is the machine that can generate black holes, which is usually pointed out in “casual” science feature articles. Still, there are others who would either be bored to tears with the thought of watching it or (if forced to watch) comprehend even less than I. Personally I understood about 15 percent of what was being said during this stream, but that’s probably a generous overstatement on my part. The 15-year-old project has a total cost of $10 billion and has been plagued with problems that have prevented it from operating as intended.Īs of March 30, 2010, scientists working on the project had something to rejoice about as the machine was able to make subatomic particles collide head-on at energies far greater than have ever been achieved before.Īnd rejoice they did, very excitedly and in a few different languages as anyone who was watching the live stream provided by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. The Large Hadron Collider is a machine that essentially smashes subatomic particles together so scientists can study the outcome.
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