colly0410 1,181 Posted March 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2018 They're on about building an even bigger more powerful version of the LHC. However some boffins are speculating that the reason we haven't discovered intelligent life anywhere else is that they made a mega LHC that created a black hole that swallowed up their planet with every living thing on it & that was the end of that! Could this happen though? Well nature has a habit of doing sumat that no scientist ever dreamed of. E.G. 20 years ago no one knew about the universe's accelerating expansion & it came as a complete shock & awe to the boffins when they found out. So maybe it could have happened on other planets, how we'd ever find out though I don't know... 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted March 8, 2018 Report Share Posted March 8, 2018 I'll ask me mate dahn pub on Sundeh. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted March 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2018 Let me know what she or he says PeverilPeril... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 I was serious colly. My mate is a physicist and he was involved with developing the super conducted magnets for the LHC. I'll let you know. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 963 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 On 08/12/2017 at 2:49 PM, Waddo said: There was a full time attendant, don't know his name but I think he lived St Ann's way cos he used to call in me Gran's café. And yes, they we're kept clean. Looking from the council house, it wu gells to the left of the steps and lad's ta the right. One of the male toilet attendants in the mid 1980's was Bernard always known as Bernard the bog and he lived at Bestwood near Cherry Orchard Mount. As the toilets operated 24 hours I assume there were a number of attendants. its amazing what you learn on here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waddo 921 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 So what your saying is, in the 80s we could have a splendid set of toilets watched over by 3 shift's of attendants, but in today's affluent lifestyle and increased council revenue, we can't even have a single toilet in a major city center?. That really makes a lot of sense, and then they wonder why folk's are wassing in shop doorways!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,130 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 They can collect more money in fines from people weeing in shop doorways than they can from pennies in the slot. You know it makes economic sense. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waddo 921 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 And knowing those idiots that supposedly run the city, that would be nearer the truth than you think. Many a true word spoken in jest !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,130 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 Most of my words on this forum are spoken in jest but they’re based on many years experience of dealing with idiots. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted March 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 2 hours ago, PeverilPeril said: I was serious colly. My mate is a physicist and he was involved with developing the super conducted magnets for the LHC. I'll let you know. WOW, Love to read his views on chances of a bigger LHC making an accidental black hole..... The speculating boffins say it only needs to happen once & it's goodbye Vienna, & London, & Nottingham, & even Bulwell, in fact every city crushed to less that the size of a quark. This would probably not be a good thing to happen... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 41 minutes ago, colly0410 said: WOW, Love to read his views on chances of a bigger LHC making an accidental black hole..... The speculating boffins say it only needs to happen once & it's goodbye Vienna, & London, & Nottingham, & even Bulwell, in fact every city crushed to less that the size of a quark. This would probably not be a good thing to happen... It would really bugger up future Nottstalgia meetings 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,130 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 48 minutes ago, colly0410 said: WOW, Love to read his views on chances of a bigger LHC making an accidental black hole..... The speculating boffins say it only needs to happen once & it's goodbye Vienna, & London, & Nottingham, & even Bulwell, in fact every city crushed to less that the size of a quark. This would probably not be a good thing to happen... Some of the others, yes - but Bulwell disappearing down a black hole - hardly likely. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,416 Posted March 9, 2018 Report Share Posted March 9, 2018 12 hours ago, philmayfield said: Some of the others, yes - but Bulwell disappearing down a black hole - hardly likely Sad but true... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted March 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2018 Just been reading on Futurisn about quark fusion: they recon if they can pull it off it'll be 8 times more efficient than controlled hydrogen fusion that they're trying to get to work now. I suppose if the politico's get a wiff of it they'll want to make an 8 times more efficient thermonuclear bomb. Oops I'm being cynical now aren't I??? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted March 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 Well we've lost Stephen Hawking (RIP to him) one of the greatest cosmologists of all time, thanks to him for the books he wrote, I really enjoyed reading them. He had the knack of explaining things in a way I understood. His explanation of how a black hole could radiate energy so losing mass when one half of a virtual particle pair at the event horizon was sucked into a black when the other half wasn't & drifted off into space so taking away a bit of the black hole mass was brilliant I thought, the phenomenon is called 'Hawking Radiation' in his honour. We have lost a great Man... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted March 16, 2018 Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 The world has lost a great man. Stephen Hawking was an inspirational scientist who made complex ideas accessible to the public. His perseverance in the face of illness was an example to all. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted June 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2018 They've discovered a black hole ripping apart & eating a star & I presume any planets that were orbiting the star. (info Scientific American & other science sites) First time this has been observed. There's a jet of particles that's sprouted out of the black hole that's traveling at almost light speed.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,416 Posted June 21, 2018 Report Share Posted June 21, 2018 Relativistic jets seem to be an anomaly since we were taught nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted June 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 They speculate that relativistic jets are made of stuff that just manages to escape the black holes event horizon just before it gets sucked into the black hole. Sort of like me just escaping from my mam before she gave a me a good hiding, only thing is I had to go back home as - well - I need food, & then Mam'd be waiting to give me a biffing. At least the relativistic jet wont get a biffing off the black hole, the lucky thing... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 1 hour ago, colly0410 said: At least the relativistic jet wont get a biffing off the black hole, the lucky thing... But how do you know, colly? How do you know your mother isn't waiting on the other side of the black hole to administer another biffng...or to apologise for those she administered when she was this side of it? Questions, questions! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted July 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2018 They've found a very high energy neutrino that was detected in Antarctica, they've named it a ghost neutrino. They speculate that it came from a black holes relativistic jet that is/was pointing straight at us. What with this discovery & gravity waves the cosmologists have plenty to get their teeth into... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted July 13, 2018 Report Share Posted July 13, 2018 I have always thought that Nutrinos would make a great name for a breakfast cereal. Plenty to get your teeth into there as well. Just add milk! 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted October 25, 2018 Report Share Posted October 25, 2018 I have been watching the Magic Numbers series presented by Prof Hannah Fry on BBC4. It was excellent. In lay person's terms Hannah made numbers and the development of maths so interesting. Programme 3 was last night and Hannah related quantum physics to biology and particularly photosynthesis. Using entanglement theory from quantum physics she explained how absorption of light energy from photons by chlorophyll allows the energy to be shared by all the molecules. Particles are synchronised. The link for the detail of the programme is: www.open.edu/openlearn/tv-radio-events/tv/magic-numbers-hannah-frys-mysterious-world-maths?episode=21615#episode-details_21615 Enjoy! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted October 25, 2018 Report Share Posted October 25, 2018 Sounds a bit better than barmy Colleen at Manning and her bl**dy Tearoom! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted October 25, 2018 Report Share Posted October 25, 2018 1 hour ago, BilboroughShirley said: I have been watching the Magic Numbers series presented by Prof Hannah Fry on BBC4. It was excellent. In lay person's terms Hannah made numbers and the development of maths so interesting. Programme 3 was last night and Hannah related quantum physics to biology and particularly photosynthesis. Using entanglement theory from quantum physics she explained how absorption of light energy from photons by chlorophyll allows the energy to be shared by all the molecules. Particles are synchronised. The link for the detail of the programme is: www.open.edu/openlearn/tv-radio-events/tv/magic-numbers-hannah-frys-mysterious-world-maths?episode=21615#episode-details_21615 Enjoy! I've been watching that, too, and really enjoying it apart from Hannah's seemingly endless walks up, down and around that particular landscape - where is it anyway? I was also particularly interested In how the subatomic particles in the chlorophyll synchronise with each other..... fascinating stuff! I wonder if there will ever be a unified theory of 'everything'.... perhaps it will have a 42 in it somewhere (or not) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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