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World not ending shock
April 5, 2008 by Anonymous, 1 year 30 weeks ago
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JTankers wrote;
"However, cosmic rays travel too fast to be captured by Earths gravity"
True, but how would that be relevant? Cosmic rays are not 'captured by Earths' gravity', they crash headlong into our atmosphere. And have been doing for several billion years without obvious ill effects.
"...and Hawking Radiation is disputed and contradicts Einsteins highly successful relativity theory"
But Hawking Radiation *is* consistent with, and a natural consequence of the equally successful Quantum Theory.
Yours, looking forward to some interesting - but not too literally Earth shattering - results from the LHC
Dan Ibekwe