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?
Ummm....theone......we all know black holes exist...explains extreamly sudden dissapearewnces of far of solar systems!The chance is small....but....the world/universe could be destroyed.
Guys, what time is it? I'm suppose to be dead right now.
Moreover,
What are the odds the Large Hydron Collider will destroy the Earth.?
Microscopically small. You have to realise, anything we try to do with particle accelerators is happening millions of times more often and millions of times more powerfully at the top of our atmosphere where high energy cosmic rays are pounding down on the Earth. If this hasn't led to the destruction of mankind in the last 4 billion years, the LHC is going to be fine.
uummm I thought this experiment wasn't supposed to happen for another 5 months? that's what my dad said he saw on the news, so I looked it up on the internet and got a whole bunch of different dates, maybe thats a good thing though especially if there was a good chance we could all be sucked into a black hole, we'd never know when it was going to happen
