CERN and the LHC

[sooey]

The world's still here, so here's a link to a webcam on the LHC:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html.

Well, I've been watching that large hardon collider for ages now and I haven't seen one, never mind two colliding! What's it all about?

 

[Space cat]

I'll tell you what's more mysterious that a black hole:- it's the belief by so many people that there's only one size and one density of a black hole.

Of course black holes come in different sizes but what about the density? Time after time we are told that a black hole contains a point mass of infinite density. Where is the proof of this? The only thing the astronomers can tell us is that there are objects out there denser than a neutron star. It follows from this that neutrons can be crushed into something smaller - but how small exactly?

Einstein's theory of general relativity PREDICTS that a sufficiently large mass will collapse to a single point but where is the proof???

PS: Mini black holes can, in theory, be formed at the temperatures achieved in a hydrogen bomb explosion. Nobody thought of that when they tested the first one.

 

[tim west]

are they made of liquorice and coated in sugar?