Thats because the worlds largest Hadron Collider will go online, which will be capable of creating black holes that will suck the Earth and the Universe into it.
We’re doomed! Doomed I tell ya!
Right, just had to get that off my chest. So silly scaremongering aside, Here’s the Science:
The 17-mile-long ring, located 100mtrs below the French-Swiss border is the world’s most powerful—and most talked about—particle accelerator will begin collecting experimental data. The LHC’s research potential is staggering, with physicists hoping to use the accelerator’s extremely high-energy proton collisions to generate a range of theoretical particles. Some of those particles could help us to understand the nature of mass, including the as-yet-undetectable dark matter that accounts for so much of the universe’s mass. Other particles might prove the existence of extra dimensions, or lead to entirely new theories or physical laws.
Physicists have pointed out that the microscopic black holes the collider could generate would disappear almost instantly, without wreaking any havoc on the accelerator or the rest of world.
There has been some doom mongering from various sources, which I do find amazing, and the following comment from some fellow struck me:
“I have come to the conclusion that human beings will always conduct experiments no matter how dangerous they are. We will keep pushing until an experiment doesn’t go as planned and destroys all life on this planet.“
The same could be said for the “Manhattan Project”, a few minutes before the first detonation of the bomb, one of the scientists believed that according to his calculations the bomb would destoy the entire world. This obviously turned out not to be entirely true. It did however destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
06-09-2008 Update:
I have Some more information on the Hadron Collider. A set of fantastic pictures can be viewed here.
A good article by Professor Brian cox can be viewed here.
And finally, an excellent article on the Collider from a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, Michio Kaku. The article can be viewed here.
10-09-2008: Update Number 2.
This second update can be viewed here!
Cool pics, i dont know why everyone is worrying though, im looking for the silver lining
http://nodnodwinkwink.blogspot.com/2008/09/cern-and-end-of-world.html
is this real coz ur talkin crap
I don’t think it should be done. Why risk life? Just to find out what space is made of? Plus it’s been done with out the concent of most of the earth. It’s not fair.
Woot! I can’t wait! Neil DeGrasse Tyson say’s I’ll get spaghettified if I get near a black hole. That’ll be the easiet diet I’ve ever been on! Plus I won’t need to pay my mortgage – take that Bank of America!
Absoloute wind up! Why would the world end in a matter of days? Seriously, this guy has got you’s fooled!
Let ‘er rip!
I have nothing scheduled next Wednesday.
Interesting comments.
I perhaps need to clarify “worlds going to end” stuff when they turn that bad boy on has been flying around the Internet for ages and is not me winding you lot up. You only need to search for it.
It has had a lot of publicity, If they hadn’t publicised it, then to quote a line from the film Dr strangelove:
“Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world, eh?”
u r bang outa order my kids r doin nothing but cry n worry cor they think there goin 2 die
u realy sud think b4 u say stupid stuff
“u realy sud think b4 u say stupid stuff”
Judging your keyboard skilz, thinking clearly isn’t one of your strong points.
Wow… all of these comments… especially the one by lia, yeah, talk about following one’s own advice. Well, perhaps your post struck a nerve?
Anyway, this Haldron Collider stuff is interesting and cool, but it still has me wondering – “what would Mulder do?” Mulder, I think, would be freaking out right now. And that is slightly disconcerting.
I am not going to pretend I’m not a little bit scared,
a friend told me about it and I became a paranoid.
I feel a little better after reading this though
There is like a 1 in 500 million chance of us being
forced into obliviation. Oh Joy.
Great post
-Fleur,
starrydreams.wordpress.com
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this is the very reason i throw rocks a scientists
and i was beginning to think the end of the world would never get here
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MLH-
You are correct of course.
We should panic and rant a bit, just for form’s sake.
Actually the information in the net indicates a tiny tiny black hole property entity may result which would bound back and forth through the earth gathering matter as it grows to consume the earth.
Ok, I am being supportive and appreciative for your post on the end of the world.
Ready? Here goes:
Yikes! Panic, Panic, run in circles twice, rant, rant, run in circles again twice.
Screams- “Help” “Stop” “YIKES!” “Rats!”
Pant, pant, sits on stool, with terror in the eyes.
Thank you kindly for the information.
Yours truely,
Batguano101- has been waiting for the appropriate application of his name and the literary allusion to Dr. Strangelove, the movie, in real life.
I’d say the end of the world really started when the text message-type spelling appeared for the first time… We “r” so doomed…
WTF!! NOOO!!! i was gonna get my salary next wednesday!!!
THIS SUCKS!!!
Ha! Dum sientests! IT CANT WROK! Nobuddy haz a hend big enuf for a RING thet BIG! Sily poeple!
Gawd it feels good to blend in…
But seriously, isn’t it a kick to see what can be accomplished if enough people think and act cooperatively? CERN decidedly rocks, oh yeah.
Yeah well, i don;t have anythin planned next wednesday but all my cousen and thats are crying omg, how pethetic the worlds gonna end, if it was really going to end dont you think we would of bombed england we have got the 2nd biggest bomb so, it could blow em up and you know what i dont think its fair why should we risk it weve treated life the way we should we deserve to live it whats the point in dying i dont mean we shoudnt live cause obv some day we are going to die mabye more painful then this but really i don;t want to die just yet i am 13 i mean we cor live life like this we cor die it ay fair god yah gtta try an help make em connect my whole body has gone weak i dont wanna die nobody does please, man for godness sakee,
Well there could be some good news Jordan, if the world does end on Wednesday at least you won’t have to sit any spelling tests.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080904220342.htm
“The LHC Safety Assessment Group have reviewed and updated a study first completed in 2003, which dispels fears of universe-gobbling black holes and of other possibly dangerous new forms of matter, and confirms that the switch-on will be completely safe.
The report explains that if particle collisions at the LHC had the power to destroy the Earth, we would never have been given the chance to exist, because regular interactions with more energetic cosmic rays would already have destroyed the Earth or other astronomical bodies.
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.””
I think that life on earth started to end on the day humans inhabited it. All we do is suck the planet dry of all its resources and drive other species into extinction.
We are our own killers and have doomed ourselves since the day we were born.
Dear people who published this article, I’m fourteen years old with my whole life ahead of me, next Wednesday. I agree with this post that we are all going to die. We’ve got a 13 year old who’s posted his/her opinion on this, well done for you, being honest with yourself. Now we’ve got our whole life ahead of us, and I think that the only course we can take to stop this is by KILLING! Let’s drop a bomb on the sicko’s who’re risking the lives of everyone and everything and let them answer to god or whoever runs the scene. I’m sure there’s a nice place reserved for them in the depths of hell! But what can we do about it, we’re just the citizens of our countries, they won’t listen to us. I think that dangerous experiments like this should only EVER be considered if they’ve been approved by 3 quarters of the UN. We’re just blogging because we want our voices to be heard by others. I hope one of our leaders or high ranking government people come across this and do something!
if the world will end, no more shity school
I don’t believe it.
Take it easy! Lots of cosmic rays have already fallen onto Earth, lots of them quite more energetic than LHC’s collisions.
Amazing!
Eliot the kid, If you are fourteen then I have to say, Well done, that was quite a good outburst.
I see a long career in politics for you.
what ?
this is stupid why would scientists want to make something that kills the human race ?
it’s getting everyone confused and i want to know what the actual truth is
COOL !
Wow, that’s intense… agreed, at some point our own intelligence will cause our own destruction. Whether it’s a bomb, a Hadron Collider, or some crazy artificial intelligence… enjoy life while you can!
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hey any one no the time when they r goin to swith this thing on?
It’d be nice if an exciting, important story like this received more attention in the media. I guess we all just want to learn about Bristol’s baby more than this incredible technological achievement.
What are you all fretting about? Silly lemmings.
Even if the blackhole produced from this Hadron Collider was dense enough to sustain itself for more than one sixteen thousandths of a second, it would flit out of existence too fast for anything except the world’s fastest n-farmed super computers to detect its existence. Your fears are being fed by what Hollywood has taught you about black holes.
Black Holes are super dense areas in space where a super-giant star burned out its fuel and collapsed so rapidly that it created a quantum tear in the fabric of space/time. The center of a black hole is so dense that light cannot escape it (hence why it appears black). But a hadron collider doesn’t produce enough gigajoules of energy to produce a hadron collision powerful enough to create a black hole dense enough to swallow the earth. The stars that collapse to prodcue a black hole are thousands of times larger than our ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM… Think about that for a second.
Yes that’s right – the stars which collapse into black holes are so freakin’ huge that our Sun in comparison would be like a speck of sand in comparison to a wrecking ball. Stars have to be of a certain size (like Arcturus, which by itself dwarfs our entire solar system), mass or density (like super dense Neutron stars which are as dense as our entire solar system packed into a football) before they can collapse to produce a black hole.
Can you imagine the amount of energy that would be needed to create a black hole dense enough to crush the entire earth? It would require about 80 billion times our Sun’s total energy (which cosmically dwarfs all the energy on earth by several factors of trillions) to produce a black hole that dense. Compare that to a Hadron Collider that is barely peaking the energy consumption of all of Germany to produce a black hole that is hundreds of times tinier than a living cell…
…seriously. You guys are just being frightened by Hollywood mumbo jumbo.
Even IF by some astronomical chance CERN manages to create a black hole dense enough to swallow the entire planet, it would happen at the speed of light. There would be no epic world destruction sequence befitting of a Hollywood blockbuster movie. It would happen quite literally in several thousandths of second – too fast for anything pain signals to reach your brain to let you know that you’re in danger. So fast, that you would be conscious in one second and then half a second later, NOTHING…
Now if you ask me, that’s the best way to die: Quick, painless and without warning. So that’s two pretty damn good reasons why you guys have absolutely nothing to fear.
at least if we die, we will all go to heaven! hell is full anyways. reason? people go to hell since they day they were created.
OK ill save my washing until Thursday then
This whole thing reminds me of Half-life. Get your crow-bars ready.
@Eliot the kid
unfortunately you need that sicko’s to make cars, planes, bombs, microwave ovens, mobile phones, computers, routers etc. while you are reading your bible or watching stupid movies on the TV invented by those sicko’s.
All you can afford is to throw stones because you are moron and your limited intelligence will not let you to make yourself more advanced weapon. If selected bunch of people retarded like can be left on themselves they will be back in the dark age and will pray to Holy Mary and to St Tomás de Torquemada to sent them sharp stone for to dig the ground for eatable tuber.
Dang it! It’s my birthday on Wednesday and I wanted cake
Had a thought… what about all those guys sitting in a strip club somewhere about to get a lap dance when suddenly, WHOOSH, they get sucked in by a black hole!
Xenlogic, I like your logic.
However, the amount of comments that I have chosen not to put up would indicate that if you told people that the entire purpose of the Wind turbines that are now dotted around the UK coastline was for power generation and not an attempt blow the country closer to Europe, they would probably think its some kind of conspiracy for closer union with Europe from Brussels.
Not that any of them could point to Brussels on a map of Europe. Or possibly know where Europe is.
i think its pretty careles of you dont you realize children have keyboard skills and can access this site dont you think theyer heads have been messed with enough with the world allready i think you are twisted
wooooahhh..duz this mean i wont have to take any exams
MadMall, terrible thing the world that we have created for our Children.
WTF. is this true? i was gonna have a pull that day =P hehe, how could it be 17 miles long thats bull shit, the french suck
like i said before ”
at least if we die, we will all go to heaven! hell is full anyways. reason? people go to hell since they day they were created.”
anyway. we deserve it for destroying our planet.
p.s. im 13
Do you really think that this will distroy the world. I men get a grip people the only way this will destroy the world is if somthig goes wrong and you cant stop that.
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hrms.
wtf mans! this is a load of shit.
funny shiet to.
seriously. how can some machine kill earth or whartever
or cause a black hole?
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:
Dag nab it!
Coast to Coast had a program on this presenting the real possibility that a tiny black hole could be formed by the collision, sink to the center of the earth and break through the surface as a quazar eating the earth up from the inside out in about 4 months.
The experts argued that the possible destruction of the earth outweighed any information that might be gained and risking the earth and all therein is wrong.
Even more interesting, no court has blocked this particular experiment from taking place.
A few guys get to roll the dice with us all.
If we bite the big chalupa, it will be due to the egos of a handful of people.
However small the chance, they have no right to take a risk with mine, or anybody else’s life. They are playing God, which is unacceptable.
I’m not stupid for the person who said I was a few speech’s up, quite smart actually.
In any case I am sad to admit that we need those sicko’s to make all of our technology, but we don’t need the scientists involved with this project.
You think I have limited intelligence, I bet you’re wondering the same thing! My Intelligence is anything but limited.
To MLH, thanks for your compliment, I haven’t thought of becoming a politician because my time is divided between research and book writing. This doesn’t matter because in about two days we might be dead.
If we don’t die, I think we can admit we were wrong, seeing as how this thing is staying on for three years apparently. My entire school is worried about it, but the thing is that shouldn’t be put through this.
I saw this get mentioned on “Mock The Week” the other day and kept meaning to look into it, the pictures are awesome thanks for posting this up. As for some of the comments, dont you just love it when something interesting like this gets posted up and blown out of proportion, if half of these morons took the time to actually read the information they would realise there is nothing to fear. Reminds me of this story of a photographer who got verbally attacked over and over on his blog due to images he captured of offenses commited by Pro Fox Hunters…
WARNING if you are small minded, or a fifteen year old girl dont look!
http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2008/05/07/the-ongoing-war-against-passion-driven-stupidity/
Lol this is funny. Nothing is gonna happen. If it does then it does. Everyone is going to die. And how do we know it will be painless?? How do you really now?!?! Have you ever experienced it?? THINK!
Until recently, I was quite confident that these scientists knew what they were doing, and would not endanger the entire world. We must admit they must be incredibly ’smart’, I believe they are Swedish or Swiss, or what ever, which fills me with confidence, Euorpean countries, especially ‘ish’s’ are very intelligent and respectable nations.If the experiment was conducted by an American research Body, then I would be shitting myself right now!
But as I said, ‘until recently’, that was when I saw a photo of the main scientist ‘dude’ in the paper, and he was wearing a polo shirt and shorts, sitting next to some hairy monster, who looked like a stoned college ‘dude’. And now I fear for us all…
Mc lovin, i think you’ll find that its not just the French, there are about 2000 physicists of all nationalities working on this project.
Fred, I don’t know what country you are from, but in the UK in the 1970’s we used to have programs on the TV after midnight for the Open University, mainly people lecturing on Science etc.
I think you have described a few of the lecturers with alarming detail.
Incidently I have heard a physicist say that he is concerned about the Hadron Collider when it turns on.
He’s concerned that it won’t be big enough to do its intended job and the data collected from it will not be as useful as first envisaged.
can i just say, its seems like a load of rubbish. if they were going to do something that would threaten all civilastions then all the world leaders would have had a huge conference and if they all love their money and power as much as they seem to, they wouldnt do anythig that could get rid of that. and in response to jordan’s comment, why england ? i live in england and i would appreciate it if we didn’t get bombed. and i agree with whoever said that the end of the word started when humans inhabited it. i dont do all i can, but i agree that we’re ruining everythng. but thats pollution. and we’re on about big diggers. i doubt it will even work, becaue if the scientists have doubts then you know. but i the earth did disappear on wednesday then we’d know who to haunt in the afterlife. so, if we die, we die. there’s not alot we can do about it. we’re all in the same boat, and noone can be saved. including the scientists, so we can all blame them. but it will be in our minds, cuz we’d kind of be dead. anyways, the scientists would have killed themselves. i doubt they’d endanger themselve’s, even if it is for scientific purposes. so i doubt it that we’re going to die on wednesday basically. and just for the record, im fourteen aswell, and i have my own opinion and i just told you them, =).
and im not small minded or anything and i am fully aware hat there is nothing to fear, considerng the odds are one in five hundred million.
thanks, and goodbye.
btw, mock the week rocks. =)
I understand the theories of why the world is going to end but in case noone has realised it has been rumoured many times before and guess what, the world hasn’t ended. Yes there is reason to be worried as if there is news that the world is ending sometime soon so obviously you’re going to be very anxious. Lets say noone really knows what will happen until Wednesday but i do hope the world doesn’t end as i have a whole life to live and love. Just incase a black hole forms, fulfill your ambitions before Wednesday
x
Didn’t something like this happen in the movie “The Mist”?
In the movie the US government was doing some kind of an experiment and tuned a machine on, which caused another dimension to open up and all hell broke loose.
This is some scary shit, but even more scary is that no one in the media, no news, no magazine, no newspaper is reporting this. We all could lose our lives in a couple of days and no one cares. If it wasn’t for this blog and others on word-press I wouldn’t even have heard of this going on. Scary shit indeed.
I hope to talk to everyone in a couple days IF we are still alive.
They Have Ben Saying That For A Long Time “The World Is Coming To An End”
It’s Not Going To Happen!!! If It Did COOL Let It Happen!!!!
hahahaaa…..
gys come on ……………
its a bullsheet news…………..
Ok lets have a laugh, there are so many black holes in the universe but none is eating a planet.then why to worry when the hole is created by us. Keep your fingers crossed.
One day till doomsday, or at least a normal Wednesday anyway.
Just hope I was wrong, I spread it across my school and it’s something I wish I hadn’t done, because everyone is afraid for their lives.
Now if we’re still alive on Wednesday we can all admit that we were wrong right? But if you’re reading this and we’re in heaven or hell, we were right and the rest of the world got it wrong. Meaning we are right, and they are wrong.
Also I’d like to apologize for the comment I said a few comments up, I didn’t mean I was super smart, I just meant I wasn’t a moron. Anyway the person who did call me a moron, Scanman I found a lot of grammar errors in your writing, did you find any in mine? I might be a laid back Christian, but I’m still better at writing than you.
Hi earthlings! I am writing this from hell (or heaven). Today is Friday and yes the world ended on Wednesday…
I’ll see you in hell (or heaven)
-whatever
if they destroy the world i will be so pissed
freakinggggg outtttttt.
Well i’m Carismatic Christian but i do admit that i dont know the Bible 100% i’m still learning about it every day, but i guess what i’m trying to say is that the little i know about it, i know that before the end of the earth there are events that need to take place, and i really dont think they can happen all in one week, i think people just talk too much and talk alot of crap, Don’t panic my friends the world is not ending…
its not end of the world.. and if they make a hole.. isn´t gonna suck the earth …
Well we were wrong, it turns out we’re still alive. I was Eliot the kid, please would the moderators message me when the next doomsday occurs, I will happily take part in the discussion.
I’ve been Eliot the kid, and I admit that I was wrong about this.
This is serious! Last Tuesday a black hole bit a piece of my fat toe off. It then vanished; never to be seen again. You’re telling me they’re going to create a couple more of these things? My god. I better start wearing thicker socks.
Yes I am alive, we are alive!!!!!
HAHAHHAHAHHA
Damn now I am broke because I spent all my money thinking it was the last day on earth. DAMNIT DAMNIT!
Heavenly,
Kick back and relax.
If a mini black hole was formed today, the math of it states that it would take four months to grow enough to break through the surface of the earth, with no way to tell if this is taking place until the terminal events.
Relax, light up, enjoy.
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Scientific side of the LHC may be dangerous, but fascinating. And real scientists were always slightly mad. But behind this tsunami of romantic universe related information only a few have noticed the second (not secondary!) purpose of the installation which before the end of this year will allow from any computer to access confidential, private information on any person in the whole world. And in conjunction with HAARP installation, it will allow remote mind control of any person. Take a look at my recent post about it to see what I mean.
“Kate (15:04:32) :
I don’t think it should be done. Why risk life? Just to find out what space is made of? Plus it’s been done with out the concent of most of the earth. It’s not fair.”
You should get your head out of your ass sweetheart. Why risk do you risk crossing the street. A rouge driver could run you down. Why do you risk eating vegtables they could be contaminated by any numer of things that are deadly. Because the potential rewards outweigh the extreamly unlikly consiquences. If more people were like you we would still be shitting outside and hunting witches.