Comments on: The LHC Will Revolutionize Physics. Can it Revolutionize the Internet Too?

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:42:38 +0000

There are still risks of a Black Hole… It is possible cosmic rays may move so quickly at to not slow down enough in collision to make one. They might, however in these conditions. I personally don't think it will happen, but we would be stupid to assume it couldn't. Before exploding the first atomic weapon, scientists speculated weather we would die of an endless radiation well or the ignition of our atmosphere. In order for these CBH's to exist 8 points must be taken into consideration. First, is the alleged disprove-ation (?) of Black Hole evaporation. The other 7 points can be found here http://www.lhcfacts.org/ . Note, I don't share the fear of this author, even if it all goes bad, we won't have more than 50 months to live and it would probably go from all right to all dead pretty quick, and we would be fine until the end, unless they are stupid enough to tell us its happening and not let us die in blissful ignorance…

By: website design

website design — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:08:13 +0000

If I got one of these – could I eventually rule the world?

By: HolyAvengerOne

HolyAvengerOne — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:07:01 +0000

Likes Math Problem: the math is sound, but the question posed isn't.

Where does it say that we can record 100,000 times a second ? It says 100,000 "advanced CPUs".

Also, what happens every 25ns is a collision. What's to say every collision would be only 1 data point and not several ?

Finally, I from what I understand from this article and others I've seen on the topic, I think the bottleneck here is more on how many we can DETECT and not how many we can RECORD or even process for that matter.

By: anthony rose

anthony rose — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:20:00 +0000

to likes math problems

Yikes bro lol I wish I could do that

But yeah I don't think earth will be doomed from this thing I mean come on for starters we been through this once with the RHIC secondly, there are solar beams and shit like that way way more powerful than what we are using..sooooo yeah 1.We got exp 2. the universe already done it

By: Likes Math Problems

Likes Math Problems — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:14:51 +0000

"Dont want to appear to maths stupid but can someone tell me if events are recorded at 20/25ns what % of this is recorded if the recorded rate is 100,000/sec . ?
BTW – My three teenage math students are not home at the moment so it would be great if someone could reply to me with an answer so as I can ask them ,and see what they come up with."

I believe that would be… 0.25% of the data be created actually gets recorded.

25ns = 0.000000025 of a second

1 second / 0.000000025 = 40,000,000 times a second

Data is produced 40 million times a second. If we can only record it 100,000 times a second, thats a ratio of (400 to 1) which is 0.25%.

Anyone verify?

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:33:30 +0000

Just kidding, of course.

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:33:02 +0000

IT MIGHT REVOLUTIONIZE THE INTERNET IF IT DOESNT KILL US ALL FIRST

ITS MORE LIKELY TO REVOLUTIONIZE A BLACK HOLE SWALLOWING US ALL UP

By: Chuck Lam

Chuck Lam — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:42:12 +0000

I suspect that several theoretical particles will eventually be identified. Also, I can't help believe that any particle, regardles of how small in size it may be, can be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces. Which begs the question, is there a theoretical finite minimum size for atomic particles. If so, how small might be the mass number?

By: DiabolicEdict

DiabolicEdict — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:26:29 +0000

The article seems obfuscated. It talks about LHC specific distribution architecture, and how large its pipes are, but failed to give discuss on the managing app (Globus) and new protocol it is claiming would "revolutionize" the internet. It does not even give the any real world possible application or parallels of its distribution architecture.

So many words, so little substance.

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:42:57 +0000

"# Kate McAlpine Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 8:24 am

"who wants me to make another rap song about this?"

>>> Me.

By: Kevin M.

Kevin M. — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:59:47 +0000

A black hole in France might be considered "the coolest science mistake ever". But far more frightening than Red Lectroids from the Eigth Dimension coming through the LHC, lets think for a moment about the real negatives of this "super-network". The first group to co-opt this technology will be the world's governments for monitoring all of our emails. If we want that, then we are only promoting truly invasive big brother as the price of our faster downloads of cheap entertainment. So, what very un-free future are we building out for ourselves in our blind drive for convenience? Likewise, just like using airplanes as missiles, the potential of the internet to be turned against itself is extremely easy to achieve and just waiting for opportunities. The faster the network, the more devastating and widespread the damage it can cause. The internet is quickly becoming our "greatest and blindest vulnerability ever". Beware getting too infatuated or dependent on this "advance", and resist letting ourselves become a hive-society.

By: Kate McAlpine

Kate McAlpine — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:24:25 +0000

who wants me to make another rap song about this?

By: Ahron

Ahron — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:41:38 +0000

i dont want to hear about any myths about CERN creating Black Holes and exotic stuff like that because they are myths… the earth gets bombarded with particles of much higher energy than CERN will have… and nothing happens but an Extensive Air Shower… it is also the first method we had for observing High energy physics…

here is another tidbit for all those who are under the dillution that CERN will destroy the earth… CERN's Charge current cant even power a light bulb in your house… not even those nice "Green" CFLs…

â€œThe LHC will enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us,â€ said CERN Director General Robert Aymar. â€œThe LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction.â€ from the CERN web site… and i am a physicist so i am not taking this as a naive person

By: dennis cottle

dennis cottle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:17:20 +0000

Dont want to appear to maths stupid but can someone tell me if events are recorded at 20/25ns what % of this is recorded if the recorded rate is 100,000/sec . ?
BTW – My three teenage math students are not home at the moment so it would be great if someone could reply to me with an answer so as I can ask them ,and see what they come up with.
Personal email reply if you wish dencot1@optusnet .com.au

By: Aurimas

Aurimas — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:15:07 +0000

So having a gigabit network at home brings me/other geeks just 10 times slower than LHC tier 1 network. And 10Gbps is only the next step in our networking. CERN isn't that far ahead as I have though. Well they have that LHC n' stuff. But still.:)

By: SolReka

SolReka — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:28:02 +0000

Certainly a lot going on in the world of technology.

When the Hadron Collider ramps up to full power, who knows what nasty critters it will unleash, not to mention black holes, God particle, and the 5th dimension.

Then we have quantum computing, and the internet supposedly ending in 2012.

So much happening, it's no wonder we simple humans struggle to stay on top of things.

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:18:06 +0000

I wonder if in 15 years we will look back at how even "sexy" sites full of Flash and Javascript look like and deem them to be as primitive as the text-only page from 1992…