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Quote: Griff @ September 12 2008, 4:38 PM BST

BWT SlagA, where did you see that Hawking said these collisions go on around us all the time? I'd be interested to see in what context he said that. The particles are being accelerated into each other with massive amounts of energy. I'm not sure where this happens in nature apart from the centre of stars etc. (Any idea, Afinkawan?)

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Various places from what I understand. There's lots of high energy charged particles passing through the Earth and our atmosphere all the time. so these types of collisions do happen.

Quote: SlagA @ September 12 2008, 4:43 PM BST

So when Hawking reassured us by saying these collisions happen all the time, he wasn't telling the whole truth?

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Sort of. It's the actual collisions which might start off a micro black hole rather than the conditions that occur as a result.

and as for the Natwest Three - that trio of bastards put me in the annoying position of siding with a bunch of bankers...


 

Could some one explain to me how they come up with hurricane names? Hurricane Ike for example, was that in relation to Tina walking into his fist?

All I know is that hurricanes are named alphabetically each year. So Ike is the ninth.
 

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

I am disappointed there is no 'Higgins'.

Does no-one name their hurricanes after the moustachioed acquaintance of Magnum anymore???

Dan
 

How come no Q's and U's? I'd like to see a Hurricane Quentin or Unwin.

Just a note I heard an interview with the creator of the World Wide Web (basically the http) Tim Berners Lee. He is concerned with the misinformation on the internet. Specifically this misinformation about the CERN Large Hadron Collider. He was very upset about the black hole rumors on the net as they were utterly false. The guy doesn't come out very often but I thought it was interesting. He's proposing more sites that are peer reviewed along the likes of Wikis.

Quote: chipolata @ September 18 2008, 4:07 PM BST

How come no Q's and U's?

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There aren't many names that begin with those letters. They retire names after major storms form and cause damage, so they'd eventually run out of Q and U names.

They rarely make it that far down the alphabet anyway.

What does this button do?
 

I decided to do some research into your questions on the LHC, blackholes, and " has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet" type stuff.

found a good link on it:

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

hope it helps.

The destruction of the world has been postponed by 2 months.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/20/hadron.collider.damage.ap/index.html

LOL! this bodes well they turn the f**king thing on and it does that. Sounds like British workman ship...or Polish