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Black-hole on our own planet?

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McBlzr

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:01 pm

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Joined: 19 Aug 2004
Posts: 453
Location: Somewhere in the Hot AZ. Desert!

The Biggest Black Hole on Our Planet whistle

This is the famous 'Rat Hole' that you have heard about.
It is capable of swallowing trillions and trillions of U.S.
Dollars... Annually! Never to be heard from again

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kanaloa
John C. Derrick

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:47 pm

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Joined: 09 Mar 2002
Posts: 43768
Location: Columbia, SC

They fire it up tomorrow... note the guy standing in the middle of the bottom image, for scale. Wow.

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Absolute-Zero
Dan Wright

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:55 am

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Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 7632
Location: E13 9AZ

We're still here, then! :yahoo:

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Absolute-Zero
Dan Wright

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:46 am

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Posts: 7632
Location: E13 9AZ

They're currently just sending one beam round the track to check for speeds, etc. Initial tests went well. Within an hour the beam had completed three circuits of the LHC. Compared to the old LEP collider which took twelve hours to achieve the same results, that's some achievement!

They're just setting up the tests to send the beam in the other direction which is something they weren't planning on doing today. Apparently, though, they've got a few problems with the cryogenics in one sector that need to be resolved.

The first collisions are scheduled to take place in another four weeks time. If they carry on advancing at their current rate, though, that may just shorten slightly!

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Daniel Schmidt

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:59 am

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Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 3394
Location: Chicago, IL

There is one of these contracptions, or something similar at least, just about 10 miles from where I live here in Chicago Burbs. I am not sure how far along they are with it. It is Fermilab's Tevatron http://www.fnal.gov/

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Absolute-Zero
Dan Wright

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:06 am

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Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 7632
Location: E13 9AZ