Meet The Doomsday Machine

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When the Large Hadron Collider is switched on this Saturday physicists will attempt to address some of nature's most fundamental questions and will attempt to recreate conditions similar to those just after the Big Bang.

Some 2000 scientists from 155 institutes in 36 countries have worked together to build this particle detector.

Will it succeed or is this machine the bringer of destruction?


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Is the world going to end this Saturday?

This Saturday the most advanced scientific instrument ever built will be switched on in Geneva.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been built to test current theories for particle physics and scientists will try and recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang by smashing parts of atoms together at high speeds.

When activated the collider could show one of the most elusive particles in our Universe, the Higgs boson, also called the "God particle". This observation could confirm the Standard Model of physics unifying three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out just gravity.

However, other more dangerous particles will also be produced for which searches are planned, such as black holes, and never seen before particles of matter, and even now, the architects of what is being termed a "Doomsday" machine, the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN are being sued in federal court over fears that this experiment may in fact destroy the planet.

Also our old friend Nostradamus? words ring from the grave with this grim prediction:

Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:

Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.

Did Nostradamus predict the Large Hadron Collider? Will the Earth disappear into a black hole of its own making?

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[D Ghost]

No it's not the end of the world

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Originally Posted by deejne

No it's not the end of the world

Naa I dont think it will be ..read some of the comments on there, they are pretty funny

[moeloubani]

Nostradamus lol

biggest science experiment ever and i think the US didn't pitch in

[moeloubani]

also i sometimes say things that are wrong and then realize right after that i was wrong

sorry US

[sinkiss]

i dont think it will be the end of the world but its an interesting article to read

[AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE]

It could be the end or the start of it.

Even the scientists that built this thing have indeed confirmed there is a possibility that some very world changing things could happen. They all say it, and I do think also there is a possibility something can happen. 1 in a million? 1 in a billion chances? Doesnt matter in physics, billions of instances occur in less than a second in that thing. As much as they say danger is low it is still possible over time and each day increases the potential of a destructive event. Thats no shit.

I am willing to bet we have a pretty good chance of going extinct from this thing.
Seriously.

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Originally Posted by AlienQ

I am willing to bet we have a pretty good chance of going extinct from this thing.
Seriously.

nah

This makes a lot of sense for me

quoted from http://boards.virginmedia.com/digita...d.html?page=35

The same concerns and attempts to sue (by the same man in fact) happened at the last new energy scale heavy ion collider. I think the scaremongering is dangerous. It encourages people to be paranoid and gives science a bad name! There are some very complex and obscure arguments surrounding this topic, but rest assured, we are NOT going to destroy the planet, and we are not blowing anything up! IF we made a mini black hole (extremely unlikely) we would have trouble even knowing it was there. It would evaporate almost instantaneously, and even if not (if you are the kind of scientist that doesnt believe in energy conservation and think hawking radiation is wrong) then it will be smaller than a nucleus and will never be able to grow in size because its schwartzchild radius wont stretch to any matter! There's a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy sitting tight and doing nothing. The whole point of them is that they are massive. A 1 nucleus big mini-black hole is basically an oxymoron. Now please stop worrying!
And I am here in Geneva working on ALICE, one of the 4 experiments. "Switch on" isn't as hard and fast as pressing A BIG red button, unfortunately. But anyway I am not worried. See you all next week! ;-)

[SilentKnight]

The world will only end the day after I win the cash-for-life lottery.

Bring on the collider.

[StuartD]

Already met it: http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=845413

[CaptainHowdy]

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

The world will only end the day after I win the cash-for-life lottery.

Bring on the collider.

Im gonna win it before you