LHC Discussion (supposed end of the world)

[hardtry000]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece

I'm scared.

[buttons]

doubt it.
i have never heard anything about this so called LHC or whatever irl, no-one has ever mentioned it & now people talking about it on here :S
seriously doubt it though

[Earthquake]

How could this possibly be true, with an article published in thesun but no world debate to stop such a thing? Thesun is so annoying, you should read the times.

[Virgin Mary]

:S why would you even consider spending that much on a geek machine when you could just give it to me?

[Nick.]

The LHC is real, and there are various countdowns for it. It was supposed to go off about a month ago, then about a week ago.... it keeps getting cancelled or something.

There's about a 1 in 10,000 chance that it will blow up the world I heard.

[Cypher-]

The LHC is real, and there are various countdowns for it. It was supposed to go off about a month ago, then about a week ago.... it keeps getting cancelled or something.

There's about a 1 in 10,000 chance that it will blow up the world I heard.

It wont "blow up" the world. The hadron collider has been around for years now being constructed and different parts tested over and over again. I watched a few shows on it on discovery as I find this stuff interesting and I have to admire the people who made this thing. Its going to show them what happened to the universe millions and perhaps billions of years ago through recreating small black holes which will then be destroyed.

People are saying that creating so many mini black holes will eventually eat our earth from the inside out, but this is not the case as the diameter and width of those being created have already been proven to eat themselves into non-existence in space. I think its a day to celebrate some of the greatest minds in history, its a massive step in world history.

[Jahova]

As the above said, it creates small black holes and this week is the launch. We may die, we may not. I am ready to die, are you?

[Sepron]

the world could end now? it could end in a few mins? few hours few weeks?

[Wayne]

What a reliable source </sarcasm>

[cocaine]

with knowledge comes power, right.

barely anyone knows about it, so they think that having black holes inside the earth will be a bad thing. However, the scientists have told us they'll collapse by themseleves. If it wasnt safe do you think theyd go ahead with it anyway?

[Leetzgirl]

Great....

Dont want to die virgin pls.

[ToxicPaddy]

Heard all about this, theres a one in a ridiculous amount of millions that this will kill us. After much research, I'm convinced we're safe. It has been proven to be safe and it will unlock science 'secrets' we never knew before. Don't worry :) Besides, its the sun, hardly reliable.

Edit - The title of the news article is a bit misleading, 'end of the world due in nine days' as if it will 100% happen.

[FlyingJesus]

It's more like a 1/50,000,000 chance of the world ending I think, and also the reactions they're forcing actually happen all the time naturally anyway, this is just more controlled

[Yoshimitsui]

How exciting..

[Oidz]

Lol, The Sun.. also look on the right hand side.
It wants us to eat 27 Big mac meals, in 9 days... Lol obviously its a joke.

[stephen008]

Its not a joke, its just showing that the sun doesn't believe this crap about it might kill us all, so to the person who said something about thesun, please read the whole page.

[AndrewByrne]

The worlds not going to end until about 250 Billion yeas when the Plate Titonics and the sun stop working/burns out.

[Fez]

]It won't blow up the world, it'll nom nom it

I don't think this will happen, if it does, it'll be just before my birthday, the most important day of the year :(

[Bef]

LOLOL we shall see... can they wait and do it on the monday thou, so i can hav my bday weekend in peace?

[Kardan]

It could end in 9 days yes, but I'm sure we'll find out in 10 days time.
But the world will definately end in 1 billion years at the maximum, when the sun starts to boil the Earth's oceans.

[Tomm]

"The Sun" says it all.

[Loqo]

My Physics Teacher was telling me about it earlier this year. It can end the earth but it's highly likely. The people who are against it want it to be 100% safe and do not want a 1 in anything. No way can they stop it from being used now. I highly doubt they'd allow a 4.4 Billion pound project to be finally finished and for then to pull the plug. Their is higher odds of that happening then the LHC destroying the world. Anyway, if it did, we wouldn't know about it so who is their to complain? Probably doing us a favor.

- Peter

[Loser]

Definately, because The Sun never overexaggurates anything.

[Javascrypt]

There is so many ways we could all die.
Plus if i die i will kill the scientist in hell.
And rapeh all you corpses :)

[GhostFace-]

ill say no.

[fweggy]

no.... is all i can sya

[N-Dubz]

i say just do it, and if it ends the world we dont have to blame ourselves we can blame crazy scientists.

oh and plus at least we all finished our summer!!!!!!!

[Bef]

i say just do it, and if it ends the world we dont have to blame ourselves we can blame crazy scientists.

oh and plus at least we all finished our summer!!!!!!!

we cant... wel be dead :)

[stephen008]

such a crap world anyway what is there to lose? If we all die, we all die :D

[AndrewByrne]

Everyone lets post here on the 10th.

[N!ck]

Meh, in theory, Hawking radiation will mean the mini black holes will disintegrate far too quickly do do any damage. The chance of it ending the world is as near as makes no difference 0.

[Recursion]

The worlds not going to end until about 250 Billion yeas when the Plate Titonics and the sun stop working/burns out.

Plate Tectonics have nothing to do with the sun?

As some of the plates are "eaten" (burn up under the crust) new plate is made by lava etc.

I wonder what its like having the earth below you being "eaten", and then being "eaten" your self.


Merged by ShawnFTW (Forum Moderator): Posts merged due to forum lag

[Loser]

Shh, don't spoil their fun.

[Excellent1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifTTSfqubM&feature=PlayList&p=C193B03B29D263DE&index=1

[Hitman]

Doubt it will, if it did I imagine it'd be something like this lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM

Wonder what'd happen when you're inside...

[Recursion]

You die when your inside, unless in the black hole there is a sun, an earth, a moon and air.


But I like spoiling their fun! :(

[Hitman]

You die when your inside, unless in the black hole there is a sun, an earth, a moon and air.


But I like spoiling their fun! :(
But what would you feel as you go in and what'd happen to your body... where does it go? Nobody can answer that really. :P

[Loser]

No such thing as black holes, it's a myth.

[Recursion]

Precisely, but, if im honest I don't want to find out, but at the same time, I wan't to know about the universe!

Why doesn't air from Earth disperse out into space btw? XD

[N!ck]

Precisely, but, if im honest I don't want to find out, but at the same time, I wan't to know about the universe!

Why doesn't air from Earth disperse out into space btw? XD

Atmosphere.

[stephen008]

if you go into a black hole, it sucks you in and squeezes everything together so as soon as you go in you would be dead cos you'd basically be squashed into a tiny dot

[IceNineKills]

I lived a happy life if it happends.

[Ashhizzle]

yeh we're all goin to die.

Dont think so.

[Jahova]

Infact, we could die any minute of any day.
Their are many things out in space that are much bigger than us and can harm us. A deadly virus could all of a sudden spread around the whole planet via animals. Gravity could be lost and we all die. The sun could become a 'Red Giant' and eat the world / Cook us. You never know what could happen.

[Firehorse]

That 1 in 10,000 chance of ending the world is a damn sight to high for me! There's a better chance of ending the human race with that thing than winning the lottery!

Could be a success, could explode like Russia's accident in the 80's with their nuclear reactor poisoning europe. If anything does go wrong all I need are some tickets to Australia :) I have an Australian passport so I could live there if I wanted to.

[Misawa]

No, nothing is going to happen. There's about as much chance of the world being sucked into a black abyss as there is the world ending in 2012.

[today]

No, nothing is going to happen. There's about as much chance of the world being sucked into a black abyss as there is the world ending in 2012.
You never know :).

But yer, i doubt it.

[Jord]

I doubt its real.

[N-Dubz]

frankly i dont care
we make so many predictions of when the world will i end i giving up actually bothering.

if it ends, it ends.

[Mario]

I doubt its real.

How can you doubt its realism?
its real, but people are questioning whether or not its going to kill everyone.

[Fez]

Everyone is scared at school and crying because of this, just about everyone except me thought that ''some russian guy'' had invented a ''black hole machine'' and he's ''gonna turn it on on wednesday''

[Tom:GC]

Really? Everyones that scared about it?

Fair enough, you're being held hostage and just you are going to die, you could be a bit scared and annoyed.

Everyone dying? What is there to miss?

Think about it this way..

If you die, EVERYONE is dead. Does it really matter? If Heaven or whatever exists, then you'll see everyone right away anyway. If not, then you won't, but nor will anyone else, so theres no worries!

[Recursion]

Really? Everyones that scared about it?

Fair enough, you're being held hostage and just you are going to die, you could be a bit scared and annoyed.

Everyone dying? What is there to miss?

Think about it this way..

If you die, EVERYONE is dead. Does it really matter? If Heaven or whatever exists, then you'll see everyone right away anyway. If not, then you won't, but nor will anyone else, so theres no worries!

Good points there :)

I don't want to die, as crappy as my life may be, I do value it somewhat, but I guess I wouldn't have to put up with my GCSEs... so its not all bad..

But the thought of there being more chance of this killing us, than there is of me winning the lottery is fricken scary.

4 days until its turned on... hmm... Ill be on work experiance then so I won't be with family or friends :(

[Tom:GC]

Thats what my Physics teacher said cus we were asking him about it.

He goes 'at least you won't have to worry about your GCSE's!'

and I'm like 'ooh good point! :P

[BaybeeElin]

if your meant to die. you die. deal with it
(if that was possible:S)

[Falcon]

It's an article from the Sun, so it's bollox.

[stephen008]

Of course it is we can all deal with it in heaven

[Recursion]

EVERYONE POST HERE IN THE BLACK HOLE!!11ONE11!111!!!!11SHIFTZ0RS!1!!

Falcon, actually it isn't ********, it could happen, they are just overdramatizing it.

[Tom:GC]

It's not 'bollox'

There is an experiment taking place where there is a 1 in 10,000 chance of the world coming to an end.

Read a book Einstein.

[ToxicPaddy]

Vote in poll.

[Recursion]

Keep it to the other thread :rolleyes:

I cannot vote, I am neutral right now.

[ToxicPaddy]

I cant add a poll to the other thread, because I didn't create it. I don't think we will, 1 in 10,000?

[Pazza]

I cant add a poll to the other thread, because I didn't create it. I don't think we will, 1 in 10,000?

And its the best scientists in the world doing it...

and if it was SOOO bad, then world leaders would have stopped it :S

[Tom:GC]

Never gonna happen :P

[camera]

wots LHC?

[SHOPLIFTER]

I bet you a grand we will.

[Pyroka]

Nah, doubts.

I mean we're all gonna die eventually, but nah.

[camera]

whats a LHC?

[Geraint]

whats a LHC?

Large Hadron Collider

No, we will not die. If the thing was going to kill the world, then it would not be taking place. It's been taken to the High Court and found to be safe.

[Hazza]

No if we do, its a shame. If we all die, no one will know.

[camera]

whats a Large Hadron Collider???

[Geraint]

whats a Large Hadron Collider???

It's a 17 mile long tunnel underneath France where they are trying to recreate the Big Bang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

[Pyroka]

It's a fire hydrant.

[Supersam]

And its the best scientists in the world doing it...

and if it was SOOO bad, then world leaders would have stopped it :S

The world leaders either do not have a right to object or they have been convinced that it was benificial to science.


I cant add a poll to the other thread, because I didn't create it. I don't think we will, 1 in 10,000?

Someone said it was more like 1 in 500,000 but a chance is a chance.


Basically scientists hope to recreate the big bang on a much smaller scale to prove the big bang theory.

[buttons]

really doubt it lol

[camera]

It's a 17 mile long tunnel underneath France where they are trying to recreate the Big Bang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

o. why should die? :S

[stephen008]

I'm a loner in the poll.. :|

[Geraint]

o. why should die? :S

Some scientists believe that the experiment will create millions of black holes.

[Loqo]

o. why should die? :S

I am not too clued up on it but it can create certain things which could end the world. I think it can create a black hole which will turn everything in it.

[camera]

right... THATLL BE SO ******* COOL!

[graffiti]

Tbh it's just another rumour like all that 666 crap.
No it's not happening.

[Andys]

no, why would they do it otherwise?
(sorry if there is an answer to that, I don't really understand it fully)

[cocaine]

no, we will not.

[Virgin Mary]

It doesn't even prove the big bang happened it just proves someone can create a singularity by smashing atoms into each other "/ :'s xD xP <;O

[GommeInc]

Why do they need to do it? It's not really proving it, only a small fraction if anything and I think the risk should surely outweigh doing it.

[Pyroka]

I remember hearing someone say about how everyone was raving mad because they thought the Atom bomb would destroy the world.

It only destroyed Hiroshima soooo... Fingers crossed, LHC might destroy France.

[Inseriousity.]

I have a free period on Wednesday. Wonder if I can make it home on time... I want to die a home-death like all the old ladies. :D

I still don't see why people waste money on this stuff. If we were meant to see other dimensions and whatnot, it'd become available to us. Stop being powerhungry and do some cancer research or something.

[GommeInc]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece

I'm scared.

Posted by: atlantic97

could someone arrange for one the black holes to swallow up my ex girlfriend before it disappears? that'd be nice lol

My favourite quote from that article lol

I'm a bit ish about it. If it does destroy the world then meh, but the other half of me thinks it would be interesting to see what happens.

[Zabuza]

it doesnt really matter
if were alive
oh well
if were dead nobody's gunna care because youll BE DEAD.
itll happen so fast you wont even know it
kinda cool to think the world could just vanish
we would get to see what happens at death
neattooo

[Recursion]

I have a free period on Wednesday. Wonder if I can make it home on time... I want to die a home-death like all the old ladies. :D

I still don't see why people waste money on this stuff. If we were meant to see other dimensions and whatnot, it'd become available to us. Stop being powerhungry and do some cancer research or something.


Folding @ Home bbs.

[Pazza]

I remember hearing someone say about how everyone was raving mad because they thought the Atom bomb would destroy the world.

It only destroyed Hiroshima soooo... Fingers crossed, LHC might destroy France.
LOL

And If we do go through the black hole, they won't have found out about the black hole - but will have found out what's through a black hole :D

[tdi]

particle physics give me a hadron.

[Supersam]

no, why would they do it otherwise?
(sorry if there is an answer to that, I don't really understand it fully)


Why do they need to do it? It's not really proving it, only a small fraction if anything and I think the risk should surely outweigh doing it.

It will prove or disprove the big bang theory and may help scientists work further with the string theory involving black holes.

Scientists say the risk is that the collision may cause a blackhole that will destory the universe.

Some have said that the blackhole will cause the entire universe to travel back in time back to the big bang and that the history of the universe will be repeated but differently.

Its all too weird.

[Kardan]

No, we'll survive.

[N-Dubz]

if we did die maybe then people would sthu predicting the end of the world

[-Xiangu-]

The chances of creating black holes are quite big but the fact is if they are created they will be tiny and burn themselves out within the first hundreth milisecond. The chance of it destroying the earth or anything is actually pretty much 99.99999999% Impossible.

[camera]

i thought black holes arent real

[Javascrypt]

Loads of People on my MSN are asking this...

[graffiti]

well this thread amde my day
i jsut read all 7 pages *yawnz*
tbh i dnt think it will happen

[Cwmbran]

Well if it does do some damage thank god its under France.

[Bren]

Well if it does do some damage thank god its under France.
lolol

would be annoyin it does happen. then i never get to drive my car on road :@

[Virgin Mary]

It will prove or disprove the big bang theory and may help scientists work further with the string theory involving black holes.

Scientists say the risk is that the collision may cause a blackhole that will destory the universe.

Some have said that the blackhole will cause the entire universe to travel back in time back to the big bang and that the history of the universe will be repeated but differently.

Its all too weird.
It won't prove the big bang theory, it'll prove smashing subatomic particles into each other can create a singularity. It does not prove what smashed these particles into each other, how these particles even existed before the big bang or if planets and life can come from this.

[Jord]

No way.

[Jord]

lolol

would be annoyin it does happen. then i never get to drive my car on road :@



I wouldnt have driven either :'(

[Emzy]

Im not going to say it'll 100% end or not because you dont know. But over the years we've all heard things about religious beliefs etc and nothing has come true but this is a man made machine. And man always makes mistakes.
I hope we don't die and i doubt we will.:)

[Malachy]

4 days. Wonder if it'll happen.

[William93]

Lol The Sun.

[Ramones]

Steven Hawkings bet his mate at university 20 quid that Higgs Boson doesn't exist, that makes me feel pretty safe ;)

[stephen008]

Steven Hawkings bet his mate at university 20 quid that Higgs Boson doesn't exist, that makes me feel pretty safe ;)

20 quid wow lol

[SHOPLIFTER]

haha you're all gonna feel like right idiots when we do :lol:

[HELPER-Ghost]

Scientists say that the mini black holes will collaspe by themselves, however they are not 100% certain of that.

[Malachy]

IGNORE THIS POST.

[Malachy]

haha you're all gonna feel like right idiots when we do :lol:
Not really. They won't feel anything. They'll be dead.
For example you go to your mate "bet you 20 quid that the world will end" "ok deal." then it actually happens - don't think he'll be getting that 20 quid in time.

[Neversoft]

The worlds not going to end until about 250 Billion yeas when the Plate Titonics and the sun stop working/burns out.

Haha, that is so wrong. The sun will enter it's red giant phase in 5 billion years, so there is no chance of it surviving for another 245 billion years on top of that. Apon entering it's red giant phase, the sun will expand greatly, and scientists believe that it will engulf the Earth even before it reaches it's largest size. Although due to the sun's continuous increase in brightness and heat it will destroy the Earth's biosphere long before it engulfs it, so the Earth will become a dead planet. Scientists believe that in 1-3 billion years time, the sun will have entirely evaporated Earth's oceans.


Infact, we could die any minute of any day.
Their are many things out in space that are much bigger than us and can harm us. A deadly virus could all of a sudden spread around the whole planet via animals. Gravity could be lost and we all die. The sun could become a 'Red Giant' and eat the world / Cook us. You never know what could happen.

There is a very very very very very very silm chance of animals spreading a virus that will destroy the worlds entire population. It's absurd to think such a thing. Gravity could be lost? What are you on? The sun won't become a red giant for another 5 billion years and the Earth will already be dead long before that happens. Fact. Yeah, you never know what could happen but the things you just mentioned will never happen in mankinds lifetime.

[Middlesbrough]

It woldnt explode, they think when they reanact the big bang a small black hole will be created and if it sucks the world in we would all be crushed or fly out of the earths gravity and be suffocated to death

[redtom]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4682260.ece

:rolleyes:

So the next doomsday is this wednesday were we're surpose to be sucked in to some black hole, sounds fun.

[Malachy]

Yeah there's a couple threads on this already.
But tbh there's hardly any chance of it happening really.

[marriott0.01]

The article was posted yesterday, and already has 71 comments!

Talk about mass pandemic

[Emzii.]

should i be scared orr? :|

[J0SH]

Cool I can't wait till we reach the 0.1% chance of it happening.

[Hazza]

If it happens, oh well, we'll all die.
I doubt it will tho.

[J0SH]

If they knew the world would end they wouldn't do it full stop, someone will put their foot down. Everyone is worrying for no reason.

[Malachy]

If they knew the world would end they wouldn't do it full stop, someone will put their foot down. Everyone is worrying for no reason.
People went to court to try and stop it I think.

[Virgin Mary]

The? Times? lol! They always lie.

[J0SH]

The? Times? lol! They always lie.

They alone with The Sun have compolsive lying disorder ;)

[Nereo]

Its been all over the news though not just The Times and The Sun. :rolleyes:

I doubt it will happen, but apparently if it does go wrong it will take effects in 4 years time, which is 2012, the same year that those people predicted the world would end :)

[Zak]

load of ****

[le harry]

Cool I can't wait till we reach the 0.0000000000001% chance of it happening.
fixed.

[Emzy]

Wednesday thank god. I hate my subjects on Thursday

[Decode]

Cool I can't wait till we reach the 0.1% chance of it happening.

0.00000005% actually.

[Hazza]

Wednesday thank god. I hate my subjects on Thursday
nice post. :P

[stratosphere2]

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — A new report provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)’s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind. Nature’s own cosmic rays regularly produce more powerful particle collisions than those planned within the LHC, which will enable nature’s laws to be studied in controlled experiments.

Full article (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080904220342.htm). I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

[Misawa]

If black holes will be created, they will be "quantum" black holes, that can NOT harm the Earth. The collisions made by the LHC are dwarfed in comparison to NATURAL COLLISIONS from rays to the earth. In other words, it is completely safe.

[Mounta1nGoat]

Well we can ask the Australians on Tuesday :D.

[JackBuddy]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece

I think the answer to your question is within the name of that link...

[Emzy]

nice post. :P
lool thanks

2012 isn't that the Mayan calendar thing? So wait, hundreds of years ago a group of people predicted the world would end in 2012. Scientist's have created a machine big enough to destroy the world but the effects would happen in 2012.
Coincidence? I don't think so.

[Virgin Mary]

I heard that 2012 is also the date that the Russians and Americans will fire bombs everywhere but they will get sucked into the blackhole and the Mayanaises will rise from the dead and kill everyone.

[N-Dubz]

i was waiting for the "big massive machine the scientists made" to be added to the 2012 reasons we might die list.

[today]

OMGZ LYKE I BETTER GIVE MA FURNI AWAY!!!

GOODBYE ALL!!!!1111

[Moh]

For this experiment to happen, wouldn't the government from nearly every country have to agree?

[Zak]

what a load of ********

[Cisse9]

OMGZ LYKE I BETTER GIVE MA FURNI AWAY!!!

GOODBYE ALL!!!!1111

haha

made me lol in rlf

[Misawa]

Anyone who believes the world is going to end is better off dead anyway.

Do people not realise that since the 1980s there have been colliders of different size functioning, and that an even bigger hadron collider will be built and active in a couple of decades time? They're safe, end of.

[Holofoil]

It's a 1 in 60 million chance of a black hole being created

[AndrewByrne]

Even if it does happen it won't be all slow and like "OMG IM DYING VERRRRY SLOWLY"
It'll be like *BAM* your dead :)

OMGZZZ ITZ GUNNA ENDD LYK IN 2006!!1!!11!!!

[Rixion]

oh dear goodbye bruno :(

[Holofoil]

LOL
The times website names the article - 'Greatest scientific experiment in history'

The Sun then goes and says the world is due to end.

There is a 1 in 60 million chance of the protons creating a black hole on impact, due to such density (the cause of a black hole in the first place) but it would be so small it would dissapear immediately.

We've been talking about it in physics cos we're doing Particle Physics in A level atm.

If a black hole were to be created however, the world would be sucked up so quickly we wouldn't notice a thing. Everyone expects something shocking to happen immediately, but the truth is it'll take months, even years, for scientists to interpret what it signifies.

[AndrewByrne]

oh dear goodbye bruno :(
I can actually see a upside to this situation.

I'LL SEE JEBUS!!

[ToxicPaddy]

We hear all this end of the world with the LHC, but what about the december 12 2012 thread? Is that more likely than the LHC or is that a load of crap? Why is it such an important date?

[Kardan]

We hear all this end of the world with the LHC, but what about the december 12 2012 thread? Is that more likely than the LHC or is that a load of crap? Why is it such an important date?

AFAIK, the eight planets come into alignment with each other, which supposedly does something?

[Pyroka]

It calls upon the power of Greyskull.

[Yoshimitsui]

Basicly everybody is threating over nothing, an end of the world rumour was bound to come around at some point as some people would just love to have everybody scared. But to be honest it's getting really boring and i would laugh if it came anywhere near to happening.

[Ashley 12344]

Its that bloody black hole machine init?!

[Holofoil]

Can people please stop getting all worked up about getting sucked in to a black hole please?

Basically it's a big 18 mile particle accelerator where two protons will be fired at eachother, virtually at the speed of light. This will recreate the density of the Universe less than a billionth of a second after the big bang.

The reason they're doing it is because there is one piece missing in working out what happened during the Big Bang, and this will hopefully give scientists the answer.

Don't expect something drastic to happen, like a massive explosion or some sort of weird sound wave sweeping over the planet. It'll take months, even years for scientists to find the answers from studying the results.

There is indeed a 1 in 60 million chance of a black hole being created however, but these would merely collapse in less than a second due to their size.

This time next week, the chances are (1 in 59,999,999) that we'll have all forgotten about it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4670445.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4670445.ece)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4682260.ece

Not only is it to find out the secrets of the origin of the Universe, but it has several other departments there who are also trying to work on stuff such as curing cancer and disposing of nuclear waste efficiently.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4692222.ece

[Ashley 12344]

Prove it.

[Cypher-]

Yes we know this already, stop adding to the mass hysteria by creating YET another thread.

[Axel]

Well said Cypher.

This thread is more annoying than the 100s of threads saying the world will end.

[Jesus-Egg]

Particles collide in nature with much more energy than collisions in the LHC, and we're still here.

Anyway, I'd like to point out that wednesday is just their first attempt of circulating a beam around it. The first proper high energy collisions don't happen until next month

[Invent]

Even if it does happen it won't be all slow and like "OMG IM DYING VERRRRY SLOWLY"
It'll be like *BAM* your dead :)Exactly! I don't see the big deal seeing as we won't even have a chance to realise it has ended the world...(if it does happen to that is).

[Hiro]

Its actually 21st December 2012. Its when the Mayan Calendar ends and apparently they could foretell what was going to happen on certain days or something.

[FlyingJesus]

Bet they didn't predict their entire tribe's decimation and destruction

[jackass]

Enough with these threads!

[stratosphere2]

Some are suggesting that the LHC and the scientists involved during the switch-on should be in a lead chamber to stop any further risks.

[Swinkid]

My opinion:

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/15/lhclooniesju8.jpg

[Hiro]

No, because it they do the collisions on 21st October.
And it won't anyways, please stop posting these threads..

[Casual]

Looks interesting make sure you all die having fun. :)

[Holofoil]

Yes we know this already, stop adding to the mass hysteria by creating YET another thread.

This is just an answer to all the threads, since there are loads of people who are still panicking.

[Corporal]

Yes we know this already, stop adding to the mass hysteria by creating YET another thread.
agreed


This is just an answer to all the threads, since there are loads of people who are still panicking.
But we are capable of reading through a thread. You are indeed adding to what you are complaining about.

[Cwmbran]

You can not say the world will not end.
For all anyone knows something with the LHC could go wrong it's just highly unlikely.

[Geraint]

It is going to end. Don't lie.


It's so fun annoying people in school by saying that.

[Holofoil]

Yes, obviously the world is going to end at some point, but it is UNLIKELY to be because of what they're trying to do. If you really want to believe we're all about to die, fine.

[buttons]

yeh we're gonna die tomorrow the internet never lies

[Bef]

LIESSSS!! WER ALL GOING TO DIE!

[Dan2nd]

Well according to the experts who beleve it could go wrong... no the world won't end on the day the machine is turned on. It'll create a tiny tiny tiny black hole in the centre of the earth which could take up to five years to destroy the earth not that I think thats true

[Mario]

you cant just say its NOT gunna end, theres a chance it will, its just unimaginably unlikely, but there is still a chance.

[Cwmbran]

You can not say the world will not end.
For all anyone knows something with the LHC could go wrong it's just highly unlikely.


you cant just say its NOT gunna end, theres a chance it will, its just unimaginably unlikely, but there is still a chance.

Great minds think alike Mr. Jumpman!

[cocaine]

*yawn*

i dont ******* care about this LHC. stop adding to the vast amount of crap threads about this.

[stratosphere2]

It's the end of a "Long Count" and the beginning of a new one. No big deal.

[cocaine]

It's the end of a "Long Count" and the beginning of a new one. No big deal.

so basically its like december 31st? lmao

[Hazza]

these threads are annoying :(
all because of "The Sun" and "The Daily Mail" mainly. :@

[Hiro]

these threads are annoying :(
all because of "The Sun" and "The Daily Mail" mainly. :@

And because people don't read the facts and jump to conclusions.

[Hazza]

Yeah, whoever listens to papers are stupid imo.

[N-Dubz]

its been more then the mayans who have predicted the world will end in 2012 decemeber.

its freaky much but frankly whatever happen will happen, we cant stop it.

[Stephen!]

Yeah, virtually every civilization that had their own callendar, their ones stopped at exactly the same data as all of the others; 2012.

[Misawa]

Yes, because the Mayans could have created a calendar that went on forever :rolleyes:

[Bouncing]

Right you all know what I'm talking about the LHC machine, I know what its trying to do, and I'd like to beleive the scientists when they say its no harm to the world/universe. Just the fact everybody knows this case as the end of the world, and all over the internet it says so. I really need some good facts that dominate over the saying that this will cause the earth to be sucked in a black hole. I don't want to jump in to any conclusion and say ooh noieees i'm gunna die. I just want to know why it wont destroy it self and why the people are being stupid the ones who are predicting this anyway. Also there doing more experiments after this one if this one goes well, there also scaring me a little bit...

[Hazza]

RIGHT, IM SICK OF THESE THREADS NOW.

THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO END, ITS 3 NUTTY SCIENTISTS AGAINST THE REST, WHO DO YOU THINK IS RIGHT? THIS IS BLOWN WAYYYY OUT OF PROPORTION NOW BECAUSE OF NEWSPAPERS.

I REPEAT, THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO END :@

[Andys]

No it won't.
Theres a 1 in 1,000,000 chance

What will happen is they spin atoms around and force them into each other which will re-crate "the big bang" and will make a small explosion. There is a chance it COULD make a black hole, but chances are it will burn itself out. Even if we do get sucked into a black hole, no-one knows whats on the other side of one so for all you know we could be sucked into one and survive.

[.Nickie]

Even if it did. we wouldn't know cause we would be dead? ;l
but no it wont end cause of that so dont worry ;]

[jackass]

It won't end. Full stop.

[Misawa]

There's about ten of these god damn threads. Someone close please.

[Cypher-]

Jesus christ, stop being such an annoying *****. Theres a million threads already to ask this silly question yet you insist on making another thread, why?

Please close this thread.

[Leetzgirl]

we dont have much time virgins!

Now is the night :8 (:rolleyes:)

Meh, i gonna be in sience i thinkk, and we be talking about it lmao

[Bouncing]

sorry i didnt know havnt used habbox in a while.

[Inseriousity.]

Yeah, these threads are annoying.

1 in a million... we could be in that unlucky one. Just curious to know that if we were in that 1, would it be straight away or would it take some time? When are they turning it on again?

[J0SH]

Well it's not going to be the last day of my life so I'm gonna go by a normal day?

And it's spelt tomorrow..

[Cypher-]

You my fellow forum user have the intelligence of a lidl shopping bag.

close thread.

[drama]

**** OFF WITH THESE THREADS


xo

[Andys]

Yeah, these threads are annoying.

1 in a million... we could be in that unlucky one. Just curious to know that if we were in that 1, would it be straight away or would it take some time? When are they turning it on again?
It would take a few hours to suck up the whole earth :P

EDIT: Oh and another option is, the "experiment" could keep growing and growing untill it has actually re-created THE "big bang".

[Leetzgirl]

What if it was your last day?!?!?!?!

[buttons]

oh come on use this as an excuse to party & go wild x lolol. nah i'm gonna be in cookin with the worst teacher ever when we "die" so i'm just gonna make life HELL for her muhaha. not really. i'll probably still be off school.

[J0SH]

Sam you sexy thing you hit the nail on the head.

[Andys]

im gunna have sex in the toilets.

[Bouncing]

being serious watch it live http://webcast.cern.ch/index.html
tomorrow at 8:30 UK time i think...

[Inseriousity.]

I'll become a right rebel, rob a store and whatnot and then when I'm in jail on the Thursday, I'll be like 'darn, we didn't die' :P

[Leetzgirl]

being serious watch it live http://webcast.cern.ch/index.html
tomorrow at 8:30 UK time i think...


My teacher said it was just afternoon around 1:30ish ;D

[Hiro]

Next thread I see on this, everyone that posted is getting a -rep.
There are too many threads on this and none of the people that start the thread know facts about WHEN they are doing the experiment and WHAT they are doing tomorrow..
Do some research before you post again (Y).:rolleyes:

[N!ck]

The chances of the world ending tomorrow is very slim just like the chance of it ending every other day that has gone past. The increased risk that the LHC gives is negligible.

[-Xiangu-]

http://lsag.web.cern.ch/lsag/LSAG-Report.pdf

Latest safety inspection report

[Becky789]

What is all this ''The world is ending tomorrow'' stuff that everyone's talking about? Everyone at my school is talking about it and it's getting really annoying. PLUS, everyone on here seems to be on about it. What exactly is going to cause the end of the world? That thing in Switzerland? Puh-lease! There is a small chance it will cause a tiny black hole! Not gunna do much harm.


If this does actually happen I'm gunna kick myself! I was wrong! :o xD

[Hazza]

Not another one :/

[Abbie.]

theres already 5million threads, look in them

[Loqo]

Never going to happen. Stop posting threads on this.

[Hazza]

I actually want to kill myself because of these threads. So yeah it might be my last day on Earth today :/

[Malachy]

Not another one :/
I could tell you were getting annoyed :P.
Yeah look in another of the threads and btw its in France/Switzerland - not Sweden.

[Becky789]

Not another one :/

Another what? ''/ I just wanna know what actually is gunna cause the world to end. I don't want this to be a thread with loads of argueing. (sp?)

[Becky789]

I could get you were getting annoyed.
Yeah look in another one and btw its in France/Switzerland - not Sweden.

Oh, thanks for correcting me. :)

[Technologic]

It's not even a proper run tomorrow, they're switching it on and firing stuff around but not at full speed. The first high powered run is on october 21st

[J0SH]

Next thread I see on this, everyone that posted is getting a -rep.
There are too many threads on this and none of the people that start the thread know facts about WHEN they are doing the experiment and WHAT they are doing tomorrow..
Do some research before you post again (Y).:rolleyes:

Everyone? Oh no :( Bad rep? Please don't while I'm cautioned :eusa_wall

[Hazza]

Another what? ''/ I just wanna know what actually is gunna cause the world to end. I don't want this to be a thread with loads of argueing. (sp?)
another thread.
look in the "discuss anything" and you'll find about 20 more of these threads.

[Becky789]

What is all this about exactly?

[Hazza]

Oh, look your thread has been merged with the rest. Read this thread and you will find out ;)

[-Xiangu-]

They are trying to learn about how the universe was created. I'm no scientist but I have read that it's to do with how mass can expand and such.

[Becky789]

Right, thank you. :)

[Moh]

If the experiment is in the hands of who ever designed there website, were all gona die > http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc.

Wait, they spent billions on the machine thing, yet spent £5 on there layout :S

[Hiro]

Please read the CERN website for more information and the truth behind it all.

[-Xiangu-]

The Big Questions
The LHC is asking some Big Questions about the universe we live in
How did our universe come to be the way it is?

The Universe started with a Big Bang – but we don’t fully understand how or why it developed the way it did. The LHC will let us see how matter behaved a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers have some ideas of what to expect – but also expect the unexpected!

What kind of Universe do we live in?

Many physicists think the Universe has more dimensions than the four (space and time) we are aware of. Will the LHC bring us evidence of new dimensions?

Gravity does not fit comfortably into the current descriptions of forces used by physicists. It is also very much weaker than the other forces. One explanation for this may be that our Universe is part of a larger multi dimensional reality and that gravity can leak into other dimensions, making it appear weaker. The LHC may allow us to see evidence of these extra dimensions - for example, the production of mini-black holes which blink into and out of existence in a tiny fraction of a second.

What happened in the Big Bang?

What was the Universe made of before the matter we see around us formed? The LHC will recreate, on a microscale, conditions that existed during the first billionth of a second of the Big Bang.

At the earliest moments of the Big Bang, the Universe consisted of a searingly hot soup of fundamental particles - quarks, leptons and the force carriers. As the Universe cooled to 1000 billion degrees, the quarks and gluons (carriers of the strong force) combined into composite particles like protons and neutrons. The LHC will collide lead nuclei so that they release their constituent quarks in a fleeting ‘Little Bang’. This will take us back to the time before these particles formed, re-creating the conditions early in the evolution of the universe, when quarks and gluons were free to mix without combining. The debris detected will provide important information about this very early state of matter.

Where is the antimatter?
The Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter, but we only see matter now. What happened to the antimatter?

Every fundamental matter particle has an antimatter partner with equal but opposite properties such as electric charge (for example, the negative electron has a positive antimatter partner called the positron). Equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created in the Big Bang, but antimatter then disappeared. So what happened to it? Experiments have already shown that some matter particles decay at different rates from their anti-particles, which could explain this. One of the LHC experiments will study these subtle differences between matter and antimatter particles.

Why do particles have mass?

Why do some particles have mass while others don’t? What makes this difference? If the LHC reveal particles predicted by theory it will help us understand this.

Particles of light (known as photons) have no mass. Matter particles (such as electrons and quarks) do – and we’re not sure why. British physicist, Peter Higgs, proposed the existence of a field (the Higg’s Field), which pervades the entire Universe and interacts with some particles and this gives them mass. If the theory is right then the field should reveal itself as a particle (the Higg’s particle). The Higg’s particle is too heavy to be made in existing accelerators, but the high energies of the LHC should enable us to produce and detect it.

What is our Universe made of?

Ninety-six percent of our Universe is missing! Much of the missing matter is stuff researchers have called ‘dark matter’. Can the LHC find out what it is made of?

The theory of ‘supersymmetry’ suggests that all known particles have, as yet undetected, ‘superpartners’. If they exist, the LHC should find them. These ‘supersymmetric’ particles may help explain one mystery of the Universe – missing matter. Astronomers detect the gravitational effects of large amounts of matter that can’t be seen and so is called ‘Dark Matter’. One possible explanation of dark matter is that it consists of supersymmetric particles.

Some of the questions being asked and hope to be answered or at least pointed in the direction to on the lhc site.

[Hitman]

Me and the physics teacher were talking about it, the black holes will be small... I worked out the speed roughly and the particles will be going at speeds of 734,400,000MPH... that's very rough though, I think it's a tad faster.

And no, I don't think it'll kill us.

[united-champ]

My view

By PAUL SUTHERLAND

COULD it be the end of the world? Well, probably not.

The truth is we are getting bombarded by high-speed particles from space all the time.

The theory is these tiny black holes will vaporise as quickly as they are created.

I went down into one of CERN’s giant chambers last year. It was the size of Westminster Abbey – a cathedral to science.

We are in the hands of some of the best minds in the world and should trust that they know what they’re doing.

So, yes, it is safe – but, just in case, I’m going to ask to be paid early this week.

:|

Thats what sum dude said.

[N!ck]

Me and the physics teacher were talking about it, the black holes will be small... I worked out the speed roughly and the particles will be going at speeds of 734,400,000MPH... that's very rough though, I think it's a tad faster.

And no, I don't think it'll kill us.

I just worked it out and got just under 670 million MPH.

[Becky789]

Ok, I think I understand now. Sounds interesting (I'm interested in science.) I hope it does work so we can find out more about the world.

They say they're trying to find something called Higgs boson. But apparently, no one has ever seen it. So, how do they know what to look for? What if they miss it? (TBH, it sounds like it's all gunna happen pretty quickly.) xD

[DarrenToogood]

What time is it getting switched on?

[-Xiangu-]

It's just under the speed of light and I have no idea what that is.

edit:

They have theories on what the higgs will be and have alot of different types of cameras and things like that to capture everything in different types of light etc.

I have no idea when it's switched on time wise

[N!ck]

It's just under the speed of light and I have no idea what that is.

Around 2.98 * 10^8 ms^-1.

[Becky789]

I'm trying to research it now to get more info, but I don't think anyone really knows when they're going to do it. (Besides the scientists, obviously.)

This has something about the time: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/popup?name=CERNBulletin&type=breaking_news&record=1124329&ln=en

[-Xiangu-]

thats basically 8-10am GMT then I think

[Hitman]

I just worked it out and got just under 670 million MPH.

We were working on the basis that it goes around 12,000 times a second (which I saw on the BBC site I think) although the sun says 11,000 and something...

[Pyroka]

If it goes wrong, then it'll take France first (bonus) and then the world, then the universe. But it won't, so stop being so doomsday-like. Its a risk which has to be taken, things like the internet wouldn't exist if it wern't for risks like this, and we've been either pretty lucky or just pure skilly. I'd go with the latter, but hey listen to the media... lol.

[N!ck]

We were working on the basis that it goes around 12,000 times a second (which I saw on the BBC site I think) although the sun says 11,000 and something...

Well the speed in which you calculated is faster than any electromagnetic wave can travel at ie. faster than the speed of light.

[Hitman]

Well the speed in which you calculated is faster than any electromagnetic wave can travel at ie. faster than the speed of light.Hm it must be 11,000 times a second then, not sure where I saw 12,000... it's just under the speed of light so you're right.

[Rixion]

i dont believe the world will end..


on the other hand, i've always wanted to see a black/worm hole

[Becky789]

Am I the only one who thinks it could be quite exciting? I would love to be the scientists behind this right now. It sounds so interesting. Plus, they have been researching this for 20 years. For it to actually work - it would be... phenomenal (sp?)

[Pyroka]

Am I the only one who thinks it could be quite exciting? I would love to be the scientists behind this right now. It sounds so interesting. Plus, they have been researching this for 20 years. For it to actually work - it would be... phenomenal (sp?)

Just to recap on that, 20 years means that its been in development as long, if not under the time it took to develop SPORE, the game. Relax guys, internet will save us.

[Technologic]

it would be nice to understand how everything works

[Virgin Mary]

i dont believe the world will end..


on the other hand, i've always wanted to see a black/worm hole
I don't think you can see one because of event horizons.

[-Xiangu-]

You would know it would be there due to the black dot staring you in the face.

[N!ck]

You would know it would be there due to the black dot staring you in the face.

You cannot see a black hole. That is why the space it occupies appears to be "black".

[Misawa]

People don't realise that there have been many lesser hadron colliders working before people even knew the existence of the LHC - an even bigger collider is going to be activated in 20 or so years. They're safe.

[Rixion]

can you explain the event horizons lool x

[N!ck]

can you explain the event horizons lool x

The horizon where it stops looking black and you can see past it. Basically the edge of the black hole.