Posted on 09/05/2008 9:23:24 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Cancel your plans for next Wednesday, it could be your last day on Earth. Or could it?
If you believe a vocal lobby of doomsayers, at the flick of a switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) next week the world will be consumed from the inside out and turned to a pile of grey goo. Yesterday their apocalyptic warnings were challenged by a report from the scientists behind the project outlining just how safe it is to recreate the Big Bang under the France-Switzerland border.
The Large Hadron Collider - the atom-smashing machine built underneath the Alps - has sent more internet-based harbingers of doom into a spin than it will have atomic particles whizzing around its 17-mile circumference when it is put into action next week. They fear that the energies released will be so powerful that a runaway black hole will be created that will engulf the planet or produce “quantum strangelets” transforming the Earth into a dead lump of “strange matter”.
So worried are they about the impending end of the Universe that they have been to court to try to stop it.
Their objections have been so vehement that the scientists behind the LHC have published a report to allay their fears and convince them that the world will carry on as normal after the biggest and most powerful atom collider ever built is turned on in Geneva.
“Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists,” the report says.
Just outside Geneva, 300ft below ground, the LHC will blast atomic particles around its circumference approximately 11,200 times every second, before smashing them headlong into one another. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Well, what’s it good for then?! Gee whiz!
That machine reminds me of the Death Star in Return of the Jedi, as Lando Calrissian was zooming through it on the Millenium Falcon.
“turned to a pile of grey goo”
How can they be sure it’ll be grey? Why not brown?
I don’t think the world is going to end, BUT...
... if it’s so safe, why is it buried under a mountain range?
Just curious, but is the scheduled start date in the year 2012?
So should we start building fires and sacrificing virgins?
And Gaia is their green god.
My doomsayer personality whispers to me, “There’s a reason why there’s no evidence of intelligent life in the rest of the galaxy. At some point every species reaches a point where to better understand the Universe they build a device. A Large Hardon Collider to be precise. From that moment on, their time as a species is limited. Within moments of flipping the device on, their planet is destroyed, and their part of the galaxy goes silent once again.”
Is this the same one that was funded then removed from Texas 20 years ago?
Goo? That’s the Big Fear of nanotech. The Big Fear with the LHC is a blackhole.
Ain’t nuthin’ gunna happen, except kickass science.
This is one heck of a big project at a HUGE expense for something nobody is %100 sure of what it’ll do.
In the end what good will it accomplish? Nothing! How any results can definatively prove the “Big Bang Theory” is ridiculous.
My bet is that IF IT WORKS it’ll just raise more questions.
Leave the switch off and read the bible, the world was CREATED people.
.yitbos
No, not gee whiz - cheeze whiz - plenty of power to make it smooth and creamy, no more lumps
>>if it’s so safe, why is it buried under a mountain range?
Maybe to isolate it from outside radiation sources?
I HATE cheeze whiz.
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