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World Ending next Wednesday?

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Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:29pm

woody_7007

woody_7007

2,350 posts

Iron - Prince

I heard this rumour going round that there is a slight chance the wrold could nd next wednesday thanks to some scientists experimenting with a large hadron collider.

It is a staggering device, occupying a train-sized tunnel 18 miles long, buried 300ft underground, studded with gigantic, cathedral-sized ring-shaped detectors where collisions between packets of ‘heavy’ subatomic particles, ‘hadrons’, will take place in the hope that the innermost workings of matter and energy will be revealed.

The LHC is, arguably, the most impressive machine ever built by Mankind

I got this info from this website

[url=http://www.zimbio.com/CERN+Hadron+Collider/articles/110/Large+Hadron+Collider+World+End+Next+Wednesday]

I have heard that the chance of this happening is one in 50 million.

According to the article on the website the earth will end in one of two ways. The first is a biblical style ending.Massive earthquake, Tsunamis and tornadoes followed by the end itslef.

The fabric of the planet itself would start to disappear, trillions of tonnes of rock, water, air and life sucked into a whirlpool of unimaginable force.

The other scenario is an instant death.

In an instant - about one-twentieth of a second - the entire Earth would simply vanish from space.

Less than two seconds later, the Moon would follow suit. Eight minutes later, the Sun would be ripped apart, followed by the rest of the planets in the solar system and onwards, a wave of destruction caused by a rent in the fabric of space itself, spreading out from our world at the speed of light.

Even though it is a one in 50 million chance. It is still not a chance i am willing to take. If we(man) can destroy the universe no matter how tiny the chance then surely this is knowledge we are better off noyt knowing. What do you think?

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:34pm

Agent_86

Agent_86

1,508 posts

Iron - Prince

Well, one of the mods will probably be on next thursday locking this thread.

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:36pm

thingthingfreak

thingthingfreak

594 posts

Iron - Duke

Yup, but what it the world really does end.....

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:49pm

Archer44

Archer44

21 posts

Wood - Squire

The world isn't ending anytime soon!!!

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:50pm

thingthingfreak

thingthingfreak

594 posts

Iron - Duke

You can never be 100% sure, and everything that has a beginning has an end. Mabey tommrow the moon could get off balance, and it wouldn't be affected by earth's gavitational pull, so it would come crashing down like a huge rock, and it would kill half the world, and the other half wouldn't get any sunlight during the day because the moon (or what would be left of it) would be blocking the sun, therefore everyone would die.

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:54pm

shermzx

shermzx

571 posts

Wood - Lord

50million-500 00 000/1.

so it's not a slight chance.anyway,what is causing the Earth to be sucked to a vortex?blackhole?

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:55pm

d0m1nated14

d0m1nated14

711 posts

Iron - Prince

I also do not believe the world will end on a day when we think it will. Honestly, being the Christian that I am, the world, as in Earth, will never die, but the "bad" people of the world will someday in the future.

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:56pm

firetail_madness

firetail_madness

6,732 posts

Gold - King

I really hope the world does not end. *cries*

The chance is really small, but not impossible either...

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:57pm

woody_7007

woody_7007

2,350 posts

Iron - Prince

apparently they have done this experiment hundreds of times before (cant remember where i got that info) but i think i read it in a newspaper.

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:58pm

Shark7996

Shark7996

320 posts

Iron - Knight

First off, scientists need to stop looking for the day the world will end, because they will never find it and are only depressing themselves.

Second off, the end of the world is going to be absolutely unpredictable.  God will pretty much snap his fingers and armageddon will be here.  That's just my thoughts on it.

 

Posted Sep 5, '08 at 8:58pm

Drace

Drace

2,492 posts

Wood - Duke

Fake. I bet that machine doesn't even exist.