Wednesday, September 10, 2008

For All You Worriers Out There

Well, the LHC Mads in Geneva's Deep 13 have shot two beams around the circle and aparently the earth has not been destroyed -- yet. There are two possibilities here though. Either it has not, or else it has and we just don't know it, in which case this is the afterlife and it isn't all that different. Go check this website to find out if the world has ended.

6 comments:

B.E. Earl said...

From what I understand, the prolification and spawning of the black holes into larger black holes and then into one massive black hole will take approximately 50 months to achieve.

That will put Armageddon directly in the middle of the year 2012.

Exactly when the Mayans said it the world would end.

S'okay...I've got no plans.

Steph said...

Will it be painful?

JPDeni said...

Not for long.

Steph said...

Gee, thanks. lol.

Steph said...

Found this at Yahoo Answers:

If the LHC manages to create a black hole (which would be really cool) it will be so small that it will evaporate before it has a chance to suck in much of anything. Remember that it will not have more mass than it started with, and it will only have the mass of a few protons at most when it forms.

And how will it be created? That would be when two atomic nuclei are smashed together with such energy that they become small enough. This takes a boat load of energy, and if the LHC can make one, it would be the first ever made. Except that cosmic rays, which rain down from the sky all the time, are of much, much higher energy. So if LHC can make black holes, it's not new to the Earth because cosmic rays must be making them all the time. We're still here, so it must be perfectly safe.


Just what I thought. Like I told B.E. on his blog, we've had little black holes around us since time began; where do you think all those stray socks and lost pens go?

Lynette said...

And we have a VP candidate who believes that dinosaurs roamed the earth 4000 years ago...