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>> Good job i did physics once.
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One thing that i found quite funny, was that the media kept saying that CERN is a black hole machine, and will kill us all.
It would have been much more popular with the public at large if they had said it was an ice cream machine instead.
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yes, a machine that produces Ice cream so cold that it takes months to melt. I wonder, how long it would it take a 4L tub of ice cream at absolute zero to melt in 20 degrees celcius. I guess you would need the coefficient of the ice cream and probably some other info as well.
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A while, but just surround it in liquid nitrogen for a long time first
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I just read that the thing won't be operational till next Spring. They have to unthaw it to fix the electrical connection of one of the massive magnets.
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yip, there was someone daily planet tlast night talking about it as well.
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lol, i'm sure the human body can survive the temperature of -200 dec C with ease, No need to wait for it to thaw when you wear a fleece!
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They just don't make electricians anymore like they used to!

Would be interesting if you could make black holes that easily.
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Those magnets are gigantic, well insulated, and no provisions have been made to heat them up.
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yes, a machine that produces Ice cream so cold that it takes months to melt. I wonder, how long it would it take a 4L tub of ice cream at absolute zero to melt in 20 degrees celcius. I guess you would need the coefficient of the ice cream and probably some other info as well.
I spent an hour last night walking through what would be needed to calculate this - it is pretty ugly. Let's consider the ice cream is sitting on a perfectly insulated floor (absorbs no heat), the floor is actually a plane that can be considered infinite (no build up of insulating cold air), and the humidity is zero (so no moisture from air freezes to insulate the ice cream). Sigh, the Oxygen begins to liquefy (90.2K) and pool, then the Nitrogen begins to liquefy (77.36K) and solidify (63.15K) then the Oxygen begins to solidify (54.36K)- well, actually probably only gets to slush because the ice cream has warmed up a bit (I guess, we have to treat the ice cream like a large point source of cold cuz who wants to calculate the heat loss coefficient across the <crap, can we also put the ice cream in a sphere?> radius of ice cream). There is not much convection because the air is really cold and the frozen Nitrogen and slushy Oxygen are insulating the ice cream
(The thermal conductivity of liquid oxygen below 80 K and pressures up to 1 MPa has been measured using a horizontal, guarded, flat-plate calorimeter. The working equation of the calorimeter is based on the one-dimensional Fourier’s law. The gap between the calorimeter plates was measured in situ from a capacitance measurement. The cooling power to the calorimeter is provided by a two-stage Gifford–McMahan cryocooler. The absolute temperatures are measured using platinum resistance thermometers.)
Anyway, the math is way more than I want to play with; but it was fun thinking about it.

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