World to end on Wednesday
by hakmao, 6 September 2008
“You are evil and dangerous and you are going to destroy the world.”
Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider project have been receiving death threats from people who believe that the experiment, which recreates conditions already found in the natural world, will suck our universe into a black hole.
The Safety Assessment Group writes, “Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth - and the planet still exists.”
The Group compares the rates of cosmic rays that bombard Earth to show that hypothetical black holes or strangelets, that have raised fears in some, will pose no threat.
As the Group writes, “Each collision of a pair of protons in the LHC will release an amount of energy comparable to that of two colliding mosquitoes, so any black hole produced would be much smaller than those known to astrophysicists.”
So the only real danger is from slapping yourself in the head as they buzz around your head at night.
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 1:22
Me being thick as fuck like — don’t quote me on that or I will hunt you down — I cannot fathom what the fuck these scientist gadgies are doing. If I get sucked oot of my bed and into a black hole because these fuckers are pissing about with shit they don’t fully understand, then I will be most angry and that.
PS. nuclear explosions and shit — do they not bang fucking shit together at high speed or is I wrong on that score?
Another thing… . String theory — WTF is that all about like?
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 5:49
“Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth - and the planet still exists,” the report says.
So why do some scientists argue this does NOT prove safety?
All naturally created stable neutral micro black holes would travel through Earth at nearly the speed of light.
Some micro black holes created from crashing particles head on in colliders would travel too slow to escape Earth.
Safety reviews by senior physics PHD Dr. Rainer Plaga and by visiting professor of Physics Dr. Otto Rossler conclude that danger has NOT been excluded. Depending on assumptions used, the risk may be measured as very high, but it may be years before we can even diagnose the severity of any possible chronic disease given to Earth.
Dr. Rainer Plaga proposes feasible and reasonable risk mitigation processes including proceeding SLOWLY.
CERN announced plans to proceed QUICKLY.
It is your planet too.
Demand that CERN at least follow Dr. Plaga’s risk mitigation procedures!
Got LHCFacts.org?
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 8:41
string theory in a nutshell
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 9:02
“If I get sucked oot of my bed and into a black hole because these fuckers are pissing about with shit they don’t fully understand…”
All in good cause, don’t you ever forget it. And re string theory - too tough for a blog comment. Read “The Elegant Universe”.
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 12:06
Dont worry, i will protect u
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 13:09
“String theory — WTF is that all about like?”
*Chortle.* I friend of mine goes on about string theory like all the fucking time - and I’m still none the wiser. I think this is because he doesn’t really understand it either. He only talks about it because he’s taken too many drugs and watched too many ‘Discovery’ programmes on TV. It’s clearly had a profound effect on him though - but not a good one as far as I can see.
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 14:44
I watched the BBC 4 programmes about it last Thursday but my head tuned out sometime around the point where they said that they were going to do low-energy safe test runs (the amounts of energy required for this are huge), but it was deemed too risky to the equipment.
So they are set to go full pelt with a high energy run with untested material.
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 15:25
I, for one, look forward to this world ending by artifically-created black hole because it’s far less terrifying than the other things that are currently threatening to end the world.
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 15:26
Funny you should say that. Just had a conversation which concluded with the words ‘I don’t think anyone would miss us’.
Sunday 7 September 2008 at 21:31
We wouldn’t know anything about it would we? Someone tell me it would be quick…
Sunday 7 September 2008 at 22:33
Should be quick–unless it opens a portal that Cthulhu can enter through. That is what the swivel-eyed nutrag above is getting at, I think.
Sunday 7 September 2008 at 23:00
Cthulhu can’t be any scarier than Fishheid McMoonface.