LHC Discussion (supposed end of the world)

[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/new...cle4682260.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/new...cle4692222.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.