Tuesday, September 09, 2008

THE WORLD MAY END WEDNESDAY



Tomorrow the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss/French border goes full beam. The collider is a giant particle accelerator which, by smashing one nano-particle into another, will supposedly tell us cool stuff about the birth of the universe and similar events. A small but significant group, however, worries the LHC might produce micro black holes and a whole range of dangerous "strangelets", capable of blowing us and everything else clear into the negative zone. (We already talked about this back in July. Click to remember.)

5 comments:

  1. Look on the positive side... at least if the world ends on wendsday, we wont have to hear all those "September 11th" talks on thursday.

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  2. Anonymous2:30 PM

    always look on the bright side of life.

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  3. Anonymous3:56 PM

    not the end, but might open some kind of time portal.

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  4. Anonymous3:58 PM

    quark, strangeness and charm

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  5. Anonymous4:15 PM

    As a positive thinking misanthrope, I say "Hurray!" At least we won't worry about who wins the election.

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