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To: HAL9000
Large Paranoia Collider!

The Big Bang Theory

Best Case: The Large Hadron Colliders' ALICE experiment successfully creates quark-gluon plasma, a substance theorized to have existed just milliseconds after the Big Bang. By generating temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than the sun, scientists hope to watch as this particle goo cools and expands into the particles that we know. That could help scientists answer why protons and neutrons weigh 100 times more than the quarks they're made of.

Worst Case: Scientists inadvertently make a micro black hole, and the earth is quickly erased from existence.

yitbos

6 posted on 09/10/2008 12:49:22 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
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To: bruinbirdman

How will we know if the worst case happens? Or will it all be over before we even sense anything?

I’m not ready for the world to end today, thank you very much.


8 posted on 09/10/2008 12:53:21 AM PDT by Enchante ("Troopergate" = Obama Democrats Working Hard to Smear Governor Palin in a Non-Scandal)
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To: bruinbirdman

But the good news is that there apparently is a maximum size to a black hole......


11 posted on 09/10/2008 12:58:16 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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