LHC@home

We really need some work to do. After 7 years on dial-up Internet was finally able to get a DSL connection in my area and now I can really sent back data if we are given a chance to compute it. Can we get some more computer experts in to set-up your machines and at least get a count of where we all stand as far as completed credits are concerned.

Please add my voice to the overall lack of response i have no WU now for ages.

I knew it was hard to get work around here,.... but damm! Haven't got a thing since end of July! I keep bangin them them for work,... but nodda!,...why? I gotta give them another chance! I believe in the project, but not in the method of work distribuiton! It could be better. Alot better! I hope you are listing. at least other projects do listen to thier crunchers. I wouldn't dream of telling you how to run your project, only how to keep your boxes happy! just listen!! At least tell me to get lost!!

Neutrino story on the Beeb.
Thoughts?

Bring on the "Can Neutrinos escape a Black Hole" experiments!

;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4862112.stm

It seems you have answered your own question. The short version is we all die. We are all going to die anyway so that isn't a problem but if we all die at once the human race will die out too (assuming all of us are on this one planet). I'm not sure if that is a bad thing or a good thing.

If we assume the universe will come to an end someday and the race would die out sooner or later then that doesn't really matter either.

Have a nice day,

Then.. if that's the case then why are we helping build the LHC, if it leads to our annihilation?

If a neutral or negatively charged metastable strangelet (NNCMS) is created, the odds that it will cause the destruction of the earth are almost certain. One hope is that the positron decay period after proton absorbtion is quite long, but there is no way to compute that. If an NNCMS causes the destruction of the Earth, It could take years however. The strangelet will be pulled down to the core of the Earth by gravity (because it will be much denser than normal matter) as it eats its way through the rock. Because the strangelet will get more stable as it grows, energy will be given off in the form of gamma rays that will heat the surrounding rock. The energy released from each absorbed proton or neutron will be comparable to that of a hydrogen-hydrogen fusion reaction. Eventually, the heating will cause the core of the Earth to expand causing earthquakes and seismic waves in the oceans that will steadily worsen. People will die from earthquakes, tsunamis, or poison gasses released from rampant volcanic activity. At some point, the core of the Earth will contract again as its mass is consumed in the growing strangelet, until finally the whole Earth will be reduced to a strange mass about 100 meters in diameter.

So I ask again... What happens if the LHC creates a negatively charged metastable strangelet?

Are you talking about quarks again? What have you been told about that?

No... strangelets.

http://chess.captain.at/strangelets-faq.html

Strangelets (A ) and strange nuggets
Strange quark matter in this range is still large enough to be treated as a Fermi gas, but small enough that effects relating to its finite size must be considered. The radius of such a strangelet is approximately 200 fm, which is less than the Compton wavelength of an electron. Unlike bulk strange matter, electrons will not be found within strangelets, but will be found `orbiting' the strangelet as in an atom. As a result, coulomb forces within the strangelet may no longer be neglected. In addition, surface effects must also be considered.

What happens if we create a negatively charged strangelet with the LHC?

What happens if it is also metastable?

What does all that mean anyway?

Maybe they meant the next christmas ??? ;)

I hope not because I only signed up last month and I haven't had any work yet. :-(

We're still here!
David