Collider tiggered my stereo
Forget black holes
THE LATEST SCARE story to be penned about Cern's new LHC particle accelerator will have us believe that its operation could destroy our home entertainment equipment.
We stumbled across the rumour about it stuffing up stereo systems and thought it might have something to do with high energy fields.
Never mind black holes and the end of the world, if they bugger up a decent set of speakers there could be major fall out.
Anyway, we tracked the source of the rumour to this bog site which claims that the LHC could cause a major explosion.
The blogger is worried about Bose Einstein Condensates, lumps of matter so cold that their constituents occupy the lowest possible quantum state. So that is Bose Einstein Condensates, not Bose stereo components.
The blogger said that in 2001, Elizabeth Donley and buddies at JILA in Boulder, Colorado, caused a BEC to explode and these have been called Bose supernovas.
Superfluid helium is a BEC and that the LHC is swimming in 700,000 litres of it and the entire gear is bathed in some of the most powerful magnetic fields on the planet.
But unless you are at ground zero and the LHC goes supernova, it looks like the chances of your stereo being affected are remote. If you are at ground zero, then your stereo, and its ability to play your Phil Collins albums, will be the last of your worries. µ
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Bla.Ck goes Dra.Ck.
Article brings Up Good Point. Has Anyone Ever Listened to Black Holes Side of Story? With High Snoop microphone or clever listening device, maybe new forming Holie was Hungry. Hungry for Scientists.Can You Imagine, Listen thru Amplifier to bit of Grey matter captured in Moon Rock. "Get In Here, I Need You". Scientist wonders ?, "I need your energy to condense More". Like Plant in little Shop of Horors. hahahahaahhh. Plant, Fab,Black Hoel ,I've heard it all.
drashek
Way to Warn
They are using liquid Helium to cool the LCH. Liquid Helium although it is cold @ 2.7K it would still need to be cooled further to reach "Bose Einstein Condensates". 170 nanokelvin (nK) or 0.00000017 K.Our understanding of everything will take a huge leap or fall from site. Exciting times when Sci-Fi becomes reality.
Interesting product name from 'The Mountain'
Hey, I traded in a pair of 901s for some Bose Einstein Condensates that sound out of this world!!If it does create a supernova, nobody would even have time to complain about it. [imagine a smiley sticking its tongue out here] As I see it; the worst that could happen would be the discovery of something better than cold fusion for power.
BEC explosions? (sniggers)
Sigh... that's what you get when your schools are staffed by complete idiots... a population of dumbasses. BECs require more than just cold He, because they are in a minimum energy state, the fluid needs to be at rest. The liquid He used to cool the magnets at LHC are first, at a higher temperature than that needed for a BEC, and second, conducting heat from the magnets, hence, NOT in their minimum energy state. Duh.Besides, if exploding BECs were all that dangerous, don't you think we (the US) would have made a WMD out of it by now? After all, we do rather well at that.
Methinks someone has had their stereo amp turned up above 10 for far too long. Terminal MF.
Then again...
...if you're retarded enough to purchase any Bose product, you deserve to have it blow up on you.Get some Monster Cables while you're at it. And some diet water.