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:

Benjamin Owens said...

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.

Anonymous said...

always look on the bright side of life.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

quark, strangeness and charm

Anonymous said...

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