get ready: end-time, black holes, mutants, aliens or the status quo
The latest news is that the Large Haldron Collider is set to restart sometime soon. If you recall, fellow nerds and Henny Pennies, the Large Haldron Collider is a massive particle accelerator situated between ….it doesn’t matter where it’s situated- it’s situated close to all of us. Scientists are seeking to recreate Genesis by colliding two proton beams together at close to the speed of light. The theory is that this will shed light on the Big Bang and our universe’s origins.
Now the thing had started last year for about a week with the protons doing their warmup lap, until it malfunctioned. They’ve been repairing it ever since, now with a rumored start date of November 2009. Theories abound by the sci-fi minded about the intelligence of doing such a thing. Will we conjure doomsday? Will this create a black hole that will slowly swallow earth by 2012? Will this become a stargate for those Aliens that made the pyramids to return or those visitors seen by Ezekiel? Some say everything will discontinue to exist in a BLINK. If the answer is no to all of these scenarios, and the physicists are right–they discover the origins of life and the God particle, then I imagine life could be very boring–we’re left without a mystery to chase anymore, and will play with our thumbs and stare at each other until it’s time to die.
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Great, but I am concerned that LHC particle collisions might produce doomsday phenomena, involving the production of stable microscopic black holes or the creation of hypothetical strangelets. If that wasn’t enough, if this thing loses more than one ten-millionth part of the beam, it will quench a superconducting magnet. I hope they are working on a beam dump to absorb absorb 362 MJ each of the two beams because this would take care of the whole issue. BTW, this thing makes a great capuccino too but will there be anyone left to enjoy it?
ha ha! oh really professor? very nice. me thinks there will just be a vacuum left- maybe the cappuccino will spawn a whole new universe of coffee people.
Damn Jp… and Nova. Was this a unit in Science offered through the New York State curricula that I missed, or am I just dumb as sh*t? I can usually follow most anything or at least pretend. Is this even Science or is this planetarium talk? Fu*k.
“Strong Meteor Shower Expected Tonight!” Does this put me in the in crowd? Sorry my only claim to fame is my knowledge of weather conditions but I think this may overlap with planetarium talk. Not downplaying it – it is actually fascinating that you guys understand this so well and take an interest. Am I in? Come on.
See for yourself: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090811/sc_space/strongmeteorshowerexpectedtonight
No?
ha. you are so in. first of all, I am sure our knowledge was simply picked from the news source we read this from. JPLogan is being funny.
I am watching this tonight! this is indeed planetarium talk.
this fits right in with it. Excited to see it (if there are no clouds or city lights to mask it.)
“Newfound Planet Orbits Backward” http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090812/sc_space/newfoundplanetorbitsbackward
Bianca has joined the nerd club. an article on a backwards bloated planet. imagine the crazy stuff that is out there!
I’ve been doing my own research at http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29429
Suicidal Planet!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090826/ap_on_sc/us_sci_suicidal_planet
there is a lot of poetry in this story of the suicidal planet. thanks for sharing Bianca!
What ever happened to Bianca? I kind of miss her crazy rants:)