Re: Cern
baudmiksen said:
It seems lately alot of particle physicists are seriously considering the possibilities of other dimensions. I watched a video not to along ago where they have another particle accelerator. At this one the guy conducting the experiments was looking for the particles responsible for gravity they're calling gravitons, which are undetectable. THey did this supposedly by smahing the particles together then taking measurements of the mass afterwards. Or maybe it was the collision that was supposed to create gravitons. I don't understand the tests or the results exactly, but the physicist thinks that the gravitons are "escaping to another dimension" is the way he put it. The way I understand it is that gravitons might be moving faster than the speed of light, which means they could exist in another dimension of time.
I could be way off base here, hopefully Harte will get a chance to look in and see if i am on the physics part.
Last I checked, gravitons are theoretical and should be detectable if real.
I believe you're thinking of
tachyons, which are also theoretical but they cease to exist at speeds less than the speed of light, so they are certainly undetectable.
Tachyons exist (supposedly) on the other side of the lightspeed limit, sort of like on the other side of a mirror. They have similar properties to our normal particles, but react to velocity in a backwards sort of way.
I mean by that that they gain mass as they slow down where as normal particles gain mass as they speed up.
Tachyons exit the universe as they slow past the speed of light, whereas normal particles exit the universe as they speed up past the speed of light.
Of course, neither scenario happens, it's just the way they explain it. I mean, it's just as impossible for a normal particle to go faster than light as it is for a tachyon to go slower than light.
At any rate, nobody should be worried about Cern's mini black holes. They will evaporate almost as quickly as they form, if they form at all.
In fact, the only way to detect them would be to find the result of their (former) presence, as is the case with a great many particles the particle physicists have "detected."