What would you do if you were sunbathing in your backyard pool on a bright day when something
unexpected happened: the pool began to boil and foam.
The next thing you know, the entire area in front of you is covered in steam.
Light and penetrating radiation burn your skin, as a shock wave blows away the burning
remains of your body.
Only the burnt pool walls survive.
No, a thunderstorm did not occur.
No, you didn't get struck by lightning.
Nothing extraordinary has actually happened; merely a small entity hitting a nearby object
at the speed of light.
I know I've talked about something similar in the previous videos, but today we're going
to look at a more realistic scenario.
So are you up for a new experiment?
If that’s the case, then let’s get this started!
I'll utilize 99.99999 percent of the speed of light for this study considering the fact
that there’s nothing that can be as fast as the speed of light.
Imagine the needle falling into the ocean.
Don’t worry, nothing would happen if it landed in the middle of an uninhabited aquatic
area.
However, if the needle falls about six miles from the shore, this is where concerning issues
begin.
Let's say that the situation happened, and you're a surfer who gets on a board and paddles
out.
As the needle falls into the ocean, a blinding flash follows, followed by a wave, which is
the size of a six-story home.
It’s difficult for you to understand where the tsunami originated from since the sun
is so bright outside.
Then, a wave engulfs you.
Your possibilities of surviving are low at this rate.
However, because the world's oceans encompass 70 percent of the Earth's surface, such a
needle is considerably more likely to fall far from the human habitat.
The small needle would have the energy of a hundred tons of TNT, which is the same energy
contained by the six bombs detonated on Hiroshima if it moved at close to the speed of light.
The ocean could just vanish through evaporation as a result of such a strong collision.
Maybe not all of it, but around two million tons.
If the steam reached a height of six miles in the troposphere, tropical rains would fall.
Stormy streams of water would flood the streets.
People and cars would be racing to save themselves.
Above all this, there is a potential of falling trees damaging electrical lines.
Climate change would be less noticeable if the needle fell into the ocean and the vapor
penetrated the stratosphere.
However, the effect would be much greater.
Due to the excessive water vapor, there could be an uncontrolled greenhouse effect.
The greenhouse effect, as we all know, would gradually heat up the world at an intense
level until the oceans boiled.
This would turn the Earth into a smaller version of Venus, where there is no life.
If two million tons of water vapor reached the mesosphere, where the temperature is negative
176 to negative 194 degrees, the same amount of water would fall on the planet as a hailstorm.
The results would be unexpected.
The hailstorm may last for hours to several days, then an ice flood may happen afterward.
With this, we can say that the evaporated ocean water would just return to us in its
same form, drowning everything in its path.
But what if the needle fell in one of the world's most deadly spots, Lake Karachay?
Radioactive waste has been kept in Lake Karachay since 1951, and since then, around 150 million
curies of radioactive material have been found.
The lake was completely closed with concrete in 2015.
However, going to the beach with friends for a picnic is still dangerous because standing
on the beach for 15 minutes could expose you to a fatal dose of radioactive radiation equivalent
to 600 x-rays.
Imagine a needle hitting Lake Karachay at nearly the speed of light.
What do you think will happen?
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If the needle reached Lake Karachay at near-lightspeed, it would only take nanoseconds to break the
concrete covering.
This means all of the radioactive dust and debris that was concealed by the concrete
would be dispersed within a 125-mile radius.
Then there would be a plume of vapor in the form of a nuclear mushroom, and the scent
of rotten eggs could be smelled for hundreds of miles.
If the needle landed near Yellowstone National Park's geysers at near-light speed, all three
thousand subsurface springs, including the world's largest geyser steamboat, would instantaneously
vaporize.
The carbon dioxide levels would cause death within 30 to 60 minutes.
All of this contributes to the noxious and toxic hydrogen sulfide.
You’re maybe thinking right now that needles don't really fly in space, and that if a tiny
space object moved at near light speed, it would never hit planet Earth.
Well, that’s true.
Micro and nanoparticles in space burn up instantly once they reach the upper atmosphere of the
planet.
This experiment may appear to you now as pure science fiction, but believe me, such an object
may possibly still fall on us.
However, not from space.
The huge hadron collider's testing was finally completed in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2008.
Protons swirl concurrently clockwise and counterclockwise inside the hadron collider, striking virtually
at the speed of light.
All that remains is to increase the value by one unit.
Protons would have to accelerate by only 9.8 feet per second to reach the speed of light.
The hadron collider uses 180 megawatts of electricity every hour, the equivalent of
energy used by a city with five hundred thousand people.
What would happen if an accident occurred within it?
There are numerous myths about the massive hadron collider.
Many people believe that when high-energy particles combine, a black hole is generated,
which may engulf our entire planet and lead to the end of the world.
If there was a control system malfunction in the collider and a super-powered magnetic
funnel, the size of a transparent tornado would surge into space.
The vortex's base diameter would be 16 miles, while the top would engulf the entire sky
for hundreds of miles.
The flow of tiny particles from space would be tightened and increased by the electromagnetic
field, rushing directly to the collider's center.
The particles would burn up in the atmosphere.
Although we can witness the comet's lovely flying tail, a nuclear explosion would follow,
destroying half of Switzerland.
Everything will be destroyed, even the most beautiful places in Europe, the lakes and
mountain pastures.
One last chance for the survival of Swiss citizens would be a protective screen against
microparticles, but there is one drawback.
A disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field at Lake Geneva would create a massive ozone
hole, allowing cold air from the mesosphere to enter the Earth's surface.
Because of this, the ice age would return in a matter of days.
And the entire world might freeze in a matter of weeks.
With this, hemoglobin would stop supplying oxygen to organs and tissues if the body temperature
reached 46 degrees Fahrenheit.
Tissues would be deprived of oxygen and nutrition, resulting in widespread cell death.
Humanity's odds of survival would be slim.
However, all of this is fiction that is still far from reality.
This is still an experiment only backed up by science.
Still, we'd be living in a post-apocalyptic world where no one couldn't leave the house
without a gas mask and everyone would be living in bomb shelters.
Only exceptional unity could save humanity.
There would be no time for disagreements and conflict and everybody will be busy helping
one another.
Sounds really good, right?
However, in terms of bomb shelters, did you know that Switzerland has the most nuclear
bomb shelters in the world?
For instance, they say that there is a bomb shelter in every residential building in Switzerland.
That means there could be three hundred thousand bomb shelters, which can hold 8.5 million
people, or 114 percent of the population.
Take note that this is in Switzerland, a country that has never been involved in armaments
races or any world conflicts.
Is this really just a coincidence?
Something not based on some agendas?
Well, I don’t seem to believe it.
How about you?
What are your thoughts on the risks of the hadron collider?
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