• Question: do you think the Hydron colider could make a small planet/create the big bag 2? p.s sorry if i spelt the name of the machine wrong. :T

    Asked by joyceoldham to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by canningchambers, benchunwilf, katiehoward.
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      Ben Smart answered on 12 Mar 2012:


      It couldn’t make a planet, you would need a lot of stuff (matter) to make a planet. It does create something similar to the big bang, but it’s not a second big bang.

      What I think is pretty cool though is that it could create a black hole (although it’s very unlikely). However any black holes it creates wouldn’t be dangerous because they would be tiny and would evaporate almost instantly before they could do any damage. Not many people know that black holes evaporate, so everyone thinks that black holes are always dangerous, but they’re not.

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      Mario Campanelli answered on 12 Mar 2012:


      to make a second big bang, you should collide back all the material in the current universe, and not just a few protons weighting 0.0000000001 grams altoghether. Same thing for the creation of a black hole: its mass would be even smaller than the value I quoted above; would you be afraid of the gravitational attraction from such an object? sure dust particles in the air have more effect on you…

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      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 13 Mar 2012:


      Hadron. It means something like a proton or a neutron. Electrons are called leptons.

      The Large hadron collider tries to replicate what conditions were like at the big bang, but is far, far, far too small to be a big bang 2.

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      Clare Burrage answered on 18 Mar 2012:


      The Large Hadron colider can recreate what a small patch of the universe looked like shortly after the big bang (a few fractions of a second). The big bang itself though happened at evern higher energies that this experiment can recreate.

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