Is the world gonna end on Wednesday?

[Rica]

All joking aside...I do not understand why someone would want to conduct an experiment that could have the potential to destroy the world...

[Ravenna]

Presumably because those conducting the experiment didn't believe it had the potential to destroy the world.

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[twitchy2.0]

I can't believe anyone thinks this would destroy the world.

[Coyote]

Originally Posted by McJag

Richard Koman, newsfactor.comWed Sep 10, 3:24 PM ET Despite prophecies of doomsday from some, there were no immediate signs of any black holes that would suck the Earth out of existence.

From the data collected by the ATLAS and CMS from the first particle acceleration tests that they conducted there was no evidence of the theoretical conditions necessary to create a micro black hole or a strangelet.

THIS HOWEVER in no way rules out the possibility, incredibly unlikely as it may be, that when they begin collision testing they will obliterate the world as we know it! Truth is, and most experts admits this - they are looking into the unknown with the LHC. (and thats the whole point of it, isn't it?)

Originally Posted by twitchy2.0

I can't believe anyone thinks this would destroy the world.

Just to clarify MY stance on this - everything will be fine, they're not gonna blow up the world ... I just think it is fun to think about the possibility!

[McJag]

Originally Posted by Rica

All joking aside...I do not understand why someone would want to conduct an experiment that could have the potential to destroy the world...

No,Rica! It is not unsafe!

[twitchy2.0]

Originally Posted by Coyote

I just think it is fun to think about the possibility!

You need to check out those doomsday loving, end-of-days boards. They were practically foaming at the mouths.

[Coyote]

Originally Posted by McJag

No,Rica! It is not unsafe!

Its unsafe! Its unsafe! We're all gonna die!!!!

[Coyote]

Originally Posted by twitchy2.0

You need to check out those doomsday loving, end-of-days boards. They were practically foaming at the mouths.

I save those things for December 21, 2012 ... the end of the Long Count and the last day of the 4th world of man!!!!!

Ooooh, scary!

[Just Kill Me]

Kali yuga

[Coyote]

^nothing like a bow hunting accident to begin the downfall of man!

[katerpillar]

Originally Posted by Rica

There is no spoon.

I literally giggled aloud at that.

Oh well, at least it'd take Switzerland first. I won't miss Toblerones all that much...

[Coyote]

Is god trying to tell us something?

Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher

GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn't report the problem for a week.

Before the problem occurred, scientists had said it would probably be several weeks before the first significant collisions were attempted.

Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher - Yahoo! News

[MoodyJenny86]

I thought I had read somewhere that it had already been turned on...

And obviously if it had been, nothing happened.

Edit: Atom-smasher hit by electrical hitch

Apparently they had already started it up on September 10th.

"The September 10 switch-on saw the testing of a clockwise beam, and then an anticlockwise beam. The first collisions are not expected for a number of weeks, given the long process of testing the LHC's equipment."

Fuck, that's comforting...

Stupid scientists need to stop messing with this kind of shit...it's bad enough with all of the doomsday prophesies for 12/31/12...

Ugh.

[Kathie_Moffett]

I've been enjoying the way sundry members of the media keeps misspelling it as the

"LARGE HARDON COLLIDER!"

And of course it "malfunctioned" before it got anywhere....

[Coyote]

Originally Posted by Kathie_Moffett

And of course it "malfunctioned" before it got anywhere....