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Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th
Naznarreb writes "CERN announced today that the first attempt to circulate a beam through the Large Hadron Collider will be on September 10th, 2008. You can read the press release here. They also announced the event will be webcast live. According to the release, they're just planning to run a few tests laps, not smash any particles, so the world won't be ending quite yet." And despite that September 10th date, according to the BBC, "On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time."
No. Cool down. The reason that everyone has been waiting for the last couple of months is for the system to cool to less than 2 K. That is what is limiting the operation of the complete LHC.
The other LHC
There is virtually zero chance the LHC will produce micro-black holes.
Even if it somehow does, they will very likely dissipate in fractions of a second.
Even if they doe form, and are stable, they will be so small so as to sink to the center of the earth and star devouring it at the alarming pace of 1 atom a year.
For frame of reference you have about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in your body.
So it would take billions of lifetimes (or more) for you to even notice the effects if one were stuck in you.
Sorry to self-reply, but even once it got going, it wouldn't destroy us immediately. A black hole with the mass of the Earth still only has Schwarzschild radius of 1.5cm.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/blkhol.html
"Two degrees Kelvin" is actually improper terminology. Kelvin does not use the degree simple. You simply say "Two Kelvin."
On another hope, I really hope you weren't joking with that. If so, then I just got whooshed!
If I am mostly carbon, (...)
You're not.