Hadron Collider This Saturday the most advanced scientific instrument ever built will be switched on in Geneva.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been built to test current theories for particle physics and scientists will try and recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang by smashing parts of atoms together at high speeds.
When activated the collider could show one of the most elusive particles in our Universe, the Higgs boson, also called the "God particle". This observation could confirm the Standard Model of physics unifying three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out just gravity.
However, other more dangerous particles will also be produced for which searches are planned, such as black holes, and never seen before particles of matter, and even now, the architects of what is being termed a "Doomsday" machine, the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN are being sued in federal court over fears that this experiment may in fact destroy the planet.
Also our old friend Nostradamus words ring from the grave with this grim prediction:
Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:
Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you, Saturn will be converted from gold to iron, "Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him, Before the coming the sky will show signs.
Did Nostradamus predict the Large Hadron Collider? Will the Earth disappear into a black hole of its own making?
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I'm going to be so mad if the planet is destroyed on Saturday. I've recently started my savings fund for my End Of The World party, to be held in accordance with prophecy... (the Mayan Calendar, the I Ching, Nostradamus, others)... 12/21/2012. Not to ruin the surprise on that party, but you all of course are invited.
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In the event, I believe I shall attend the "going away" party on Friday for my friend Bakke... laid off after 21 years. Seems like one should have a few adult beverages just as a precaution.
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It only seems appropriate to have a party for the end of the world. This is why I find it distressing that those pesky Swiss scientists might jump the gun and kill us all on Saturday. That is hardly time to plan, and I've been so looking forward to having a Calendar Round cake at my 2012 party.... if I can find someone to make it.
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It only seems appropriate to have a party for the end of the world. This is why I find it distressing that those pesky Swiss scientists might jump the gun and kill us all on Saturday. That is hardly time to plan, and I've been so looking forward to having a Calendar Round cake at my 2012 party.... if I can find someone to make it.
Can't help with the makin' of it. Bakings not really my thing. But I'll behappy to help eat it.
So, I was just wondering, will we know we are being pulled into a black hole? Will it happen quickly? Will I blink and suddenly be floating around in space?
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According to Wikipedia, first time will be slowed down, and then we'll split in two, and then in two again, etc. until we're atoms and then elementary particles. Then we'll just fade away and cease to exist.
But that's if we're drawn into the black hole. But if the gravitational collapse is big enough, we'll form the black hole, and I imagine that would be much more instantaneous.
According to Wikipedia, first time will be slowed down, and then we'll split in two, and then in two again, etc. until we're atoms and then elementary particles. Then we'll just fade away and cease to exist.
But that's if we're drawn into the black hole. But if the gravitational collapse is big enough, we'll form the black hole, and I imagine that would be much more instantaneous.
WHAT!!! This is great!!! No more exercising for me!!! GOODBYE BELT AND HELLO DOMINO'S!!!
Crap...I just layed out a thousand bucks for studio time...I guess God does have a sense of humor.
God DEFINITELY has a sense of humor. I've seen a whole lot of it.
Fuzzy... I'm not sure of the start time, but given the time differential, I would think it would actually be sometime Friday night.
Currently, I'm debating on mowing the yard. It needs it, but should I expend what could be one of my last hours alive mowing or should I spend that hour telling off the jerks of my world? It's just way too early in the morning for such philosphical questions.
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I'm wondering how that splitting in two would work? With the time differential, should I order 2 drinks at a time so there is one there for my other me when I split, or should I order doubles because they will split too?
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Mad Mema wrote: Currently, I'm debating on mowing the yard. It needs it, but should I expend what could be one of my last hours alive mowing or should I spend that hour telling off the jerks of my world? It's just way too early in the morning for such philosphical questions.
I also looked at my yard this morning when I left the house and thought about getting it mowed. But I have to agree with you. Why waste an hour of such few hours we may have left? Maybe I will do it Saturday. Wait, around what time are we going to be blinked out of existence? I just don't want my last moments to be of me mowing the lawn. Perhaps if I still exist I will mow it after dinner Saturday.
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Hmmm... that is a good question. Doing the splits just flat out hurts at this point in life anyway, so I can only imagine that to be twice as painful. Eating a banana split, however... that could only get better.
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