They're gonna fire the World Cannon

marinedalek wrote:I don't think anyone will get a chance to be displeased - your component atoms would be ripped apart faster than you had chance to notice. That's why I'm not too worried - even if the 1:10^26 chance creation of a black hole actually happens *and* it devours the Earth, I won't know anything about it.

What a cheery thought!

Actually they said it could take up to 15 months for the Black Hole to swallow the Earth, {if the black hole thing were to happen}... I think somewhere in there we could find some Displeasement over the situation...

Bafitis wrote:Actually they said it could take up to 15 months for the Black Hole to swallow the Earth, {if the black hole thing were to happen}...

Then, at least, we will have time to play TCM...

Steve wrote:

Bafitis wrote:Actually they said it could take up to 15 months for the Black Hole to swallow the Earth, {if the black hole thing were to happen}...

Then, at least, we will have time to play TCM...

Well that's what they said on the News, it could also go the other way and all happen in the blink of an eye...

But could you imagine standing on your front porch or something and see the void coming for you knowing there was nothing you could do???


Question... If it was a slow progressing black hole, would you run to it??? Or would you run away from it trying to conserve every last second possible???

I think I'd go running For It... Have someone video tape it, just in case after it sucks me in they figure out a way to stop it, then I would be famous on Youtube...

All I ask is for the world to end on a Monday. That will give me enough time to "blow" my meager paycheck on a mediocre weekend not to mention I won't have to show up for work.

A slow progression brings so many possibilities.

Sit back and watch the chaos of an urban setting.

Find a magnificent snowy mountain scenery and contemplate as it vanishes in a void we can't possibly comprehend.

Lay on the beach and watch the ocean disappear before your eyes.

On a more practical fun way, shoot bullets or nerf guns at it.

Fly a kite around it and see what happens.

You know, I'm starting to enjoy this scenario more and more!

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Frank feels fine!

Hahaha

You know, I never had a Myspace, but I'd open one up just so I could write "Feeling perfectly fine" in the mood status.

It makes me wonder though, if the physical contemplation of a true void or emptiness would automatically spark madness in the mind of the observer. What happens when you see something your mind simply wasn't prepared to witness?

Shock, I suppose. However, most likely the beholder would just close his/her eyes

Now, if we talk about watching it through Clockwork-Orange-goggles, THEN we're cooking with gas!

-Fred

Bafitis wrote:Actually they said it could take up to 15 months for the Black Hole to swallow the Earth, {if the black hole thing were to happen}... I think somewhere in there we could find some Displeasement over the situation...

I can't recall where, but I heard one prediction that said a very small one could take thousands of years to consume the Earth. It may have even been a million years. If it does take that long, we just need to work on a way to get off this planet and to another solar system as quick as possible.

People were worried about previous particle colliders causing black holes too and it never happened, so hopefully it's all just an overreaction again.

Matthew Buckstein wrote:

Bafitis wrote:Actually they said it could take up to 15 months for the Black Hole to swallow the Earth, {if the black hole thing were to happen}... I think somewhere in there we could find some Displeasement over the situation...

I can't recall where, but I heard one prediction that said a very small one could take thousands of years to consume the Earth. It may have even been a million years. If it does take that long, we just need to work on a way to get off this planet and to another solar system as quick as possible.

This is true... depending on the size of the Black Hole it can take many many years to consume planets and stars. They have seen black holes in space that have been consuming stars for million of years. What you also need to realise is that black holes are constantly moving, and when they come into close contact with a planet or star they drag it with it. So if a black hole was to come into contact with our solar system and engulf the sun only, that would still cause problems for the entire solar system, including the disruption of orbital patterns and of course the end of life in Earth; whether it be extreme heat or cold due to the black hole dragging the sun closer or further away.

Interestingly enough there are millions of black holes in the universe, and most are invisible and only detectable when they pass in front of sources of light, and you get a distortion. And more interestingly... why is the Milky Way galaxy a giant swirling mass? You guessed it: at the centre of our galaxy is an enormous black hole.

-Cub. =o)

All that might be true, but if we opened one up right here on the planet, I don't think anyone could really tell what would happen... It could have a battle of Gravity with the sun and cause our planet to stop turning, in effect making about half the planet impossible to live on... Or it could cause us to rotate even faster causing days and nights to become short or the reverse and make it slower causing them to be longer...

So many unknowns that these scientists are playing with... But so many more Lives that they are playing with at the same time...


Cub is correct though, the Milky Way is a Spiral Galaxy because we are continuously spinning heading for a black hole, but we are moving at such a slow rate that we will get closer to the sun to the point where the Earth will be uninhabitable before we get close enough to the black hole for it to affect life...

I read somewhere that as one approaches the center of a black hole one's mass is compressed & stretched towards infinity simultaneously. So really, in theory, since everything is relative, we could be sucked into a black hole and not even know it since everything around us would be stretched & compressed at the same ratio as us - we would only appear to get stretched & squashed to an external viewer - so hopefully this will bring comfort to those of you who worry - and if not, maybe this will http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdes ... ldyet.com/

Bests, Rockefeller

Bafitis wrote:All that might be true, but if we opened one up right here on the planet, I don't think anyone could really tell what would happen... It could have a battle of Gravity with the sun and cause our planet to stop turning, in effect making about half the planet impossible to live on... Or it could cause us to rotate even faster causing days and nights to become short or the reverse and make it slower causing them to be longer...

The thing about gravity though, is that the only things that actually matter are the distance between the centre of mass of the two objects and the mass of those two objects. So a blackhole with a mass of one proton let's say at any given distance from the Earth has no more effect on the earth than a proton at that distance. It's just that blackholes are so dense that you can get an object much closer to it than would normally be the case... so close in fact that that object can't escape. So if such a blackhole formed within the Earth, the most it could do for quite some time would be to suck in a few errant particles that happen to get to close to it. Depending on the initial mass and size of the blackhole, that means it could take a very long time before it actually had any substantial effect on Earth.

Whether this is worth the risk or not, is another question entirely. I'd hope that no one would be foolish enough to take that risk unless it was essentially a guarantee that no such thing could happen.