Magellan
a superhero webcomic by Grace Crowley
The story so far…
[1] Wannabe
[#] History
[2] Great Leap Forward
[3] Daze
[4] Bad Karma
[#] Gifford: Hero [back soon]
[#] Buying the Stairway to Heaven
[5] Worst Fieldtrip Ever
[#] Redux: Gola Beh
[6] Lock(e)down
[#] The Things That Matter
[7] PaRARGdox
Tales from the MagellanVerse…
Olga & Brelvis
Dr Spooky & Otto
The Olaf Mystery
Legacy
Crossoverkill [a crossover!]
Magellan stuff
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So, in short . . . the Rarg’s concept of overkill is still up for debate.
Once upon a time, a poor understanding of the information presented by this video spread fear about the Large Hadron Collider. People became afraid that the LHC would create miniature black holes (of considerably smaller mass than a nickel) that would destroy the Earth.
On the other hand, very disappointed it didn’t rip a hole in the time-space continuum… 😉
It didn’t? Have you seen the sort of shit that happened in the world after the weasel fell into it?
I work with particle accelerators, considerably smaller ones than the LHC, and I don’t even remember if the LHC has or has not technically created a black hole with the mass of two atoms. Black holes are something I consider outside the scope of what I’m doing – and they quite literally are. In terms of projectile energy: “my” stuff is single digit to three digit keV, the LHC is single digit TeV. That’s 7 orders of magnitude, or 10 000 000 times the energy of the stuff I work with. (per particle, I reckon our low energy machines spit out a lot more particles per second, but the energy in a single collision is what decides what parts of physics you need to know about and can learn about with these machines)
It’s like the difference between a mm and 10 km. If one of them is relevant, the other one is surely not.
To my knowledge we have no evidence of a supersmall black hole created by the LHC to date, and if it was created it would allow for investigating physics in a new way.
Dang, I was hoping it was going to be how time warps around a black hole… So basically the Rarg machine creates a black hole the width of a nickel but not the mass of a nickel, at least, that causes Earth to collapse like that in that one panel?
At this point I can’t confirm the actual size density of the singularity we know was produced by the Rarg. Big enough to cause some damage, that’s for sure!!