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Incorrect.
They were fairly certain about self-sustaining fission process, and were able to calibrate their calculations to experimental data, good work there by Fermi and others. One part of the project was to create a bomb, and again they were able to implement a fairly sophisticated detonation mechanism by compression of plutonium. That just doesn't happen in a "what if" manner. These guys nailed it down cold.
The general consensus was that the bomb would yield energy equivalent to 5,000 tons of TNT (the actual result as it was finally calculated was 21,000 tons). Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, had bet ten dollars against scientist George Kistiakowsky’s wager, with his entire month’s pay, that the bomb would not work at all. Enrico Fermi offered a wager on “whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.”
Link:
The Tech Herald
Here's a snippet...
CERN admits black hole ripped in space by Large Hadron Collider
A spokesperson for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has confirmed the fears of many in the scientific world after revealing that the reason for the sudden closure of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most expensive physics experiment, was not due to "technical problems" as previously stated, but because its controversial particle collisions have sensationally rendered a "tiny black hole" in the fabric of space. "I can confirm that, yes, the first stages of the experiment resulted in the appearance of a miniscule black hole," said the spokesperson to gathered reporters on Monday. "The black hole is being kept under quarantine and our scientists have been monitoring its progression," he explained.
The scientists aren't stupid. They know what they are doing. If the LHC was really dangerous to the planet, they would not do it.
Originally posted by GrinchNoMore
I find some wonderment at how they can measure such temperatures, and what materials they are using to contain this all, since its so much hotter than even the sun.
Particles with more energy that a plasma at over 10 trillion degrees are hitting the Earth? That doesn't sound right to me, I'm happy to be proven wrong though.
Hey it comes right from the LHC website so you can debate it with CERN if you think it's not true:
Originally posted by pscysm
Particles with more energy that a plasma at over 10 trillion degrees are hitting the Earth? That doesn't sound right to me, I'm happy to be proven wrong though.
So CERN admits on their own website that the LHC energies don't even come close to the highest energy particles from space.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can achieve an energy that no other particle accelerators have reached before, but Nature routinely produces higher energies in cosmic-ray collisions. Concerns about the safety of whatever may be created in such high-energy particle collisions have been addressed for many years.,,,
Cosmic rays
The LHC, like other particle accelerators, recreates the natural phenomena of cosmic rays under controlled laboratory conditions, enabling them to be studied in more detail. Cosmic rays are particles produced in outer space, some of which are accelerated to energies far exceeding those of the LHC. The energy and the rate at which they reach the Earth’s atmosphere have been measured in experiments for some 70 years. Over the past billions of years, Nature has already generated on Earth as many collisions as about a million LHC experiments – and the planet still exists.