Despite critics all over the world, earth has not yet been sucked into a black hole or another dimension for that matter. In reality the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland has produced spectacular results instead.
First scientists proved the existence of the elusive Higgs boson ‘God particle’ and they’re seemingly well on the way to nailing ‘dark matter’ also. But all of it pales in comparison to next week’s experiment.
Fired up to its highest energy level possible, the LHC might possibly create even miniature black holes. If the parallel universe springs into existence it will not only be outside of our own, but it could also be filled with some of our gravity. This will surely lead to another red alert aboard the USS LHC Critics (may be even rightfully so).
However, if successful CERN’s LHC will not only remain intact, but will open up a new chapter in history, eventually rewriting physics and philosophy books altogether.
Mir Faizal, one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, summed it up recently, stating that:
“Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height], parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions. We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.
Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualized. This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science. This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions. As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.
We have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in ‘gravity’s rainbow’ [a new scientific theory]. If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity’s rainbow and extra dimensions are correct."
Just in case you’re interested: fired up, the LHC’s energy output is measured in Tera electron volts – a TeV is 1,000,000,000,000 (that’s one trillion) electron Volts. The LHC managed levels just below 5.3 TeV.
To quiet the mind’s of those fearing the mini black holes, according to all models, the energy level needed to produce one would need to be at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions, respectively.
Finally, for what it’s worth, a time machine seems relatively easy to power up in comparison, using some 1.21 Gigawatt, letting us go back in time and fix any mess.
Credit to 3tags.org
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