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 âheavyâ subatomic particles, âhadronsâ, 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 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?
Ell oh ell. My favourite headline off the links given was "Large Hadron Collider will not turn world into goo, promise scientists." Well good, because I was worried. But they promised, so no takesies backsies.
No, I'm not worried. Why worry about something you can't change? Just live life, like you should be anyway, like it'll end tomorrow. Or next week, or Wednesday, or something. ^.^
I would just like to point out that this is a particle accelerator. It's a really big one... but that's it. There is certainly a chance of quantum particles fluctuation in such a way that could be catastrophic, but that's always a risk. In fact you're much more likely to: Be killed by an albino ferret. Get hit by lightning, survive, get hit again, and then as your getting up get his a third time which does you in. Have a lead pipe that it in particle fluctuation suddenly appear inside of you. Spontaneously combust while getting dressed.
And I'm totally serious, by the way. This particle accelerator is no more dangerous than the 12 or so albino ferrets running around so maybe we should eliminate them first.
The Mayans predicted the world won't be over until 2012 when the Super LHC gets turned on, don't you people read your history books? j/k, but seriously, there's nothing to fret over. I'm more worried about waking up on time for church tomorrow since it's late right now (12:42am) and I don't want to go to bed.
