End of the world next wednesday!

[SandyB]

As they say .. " enjoy the Journey "   

[Michael Alexander]

Fears about experiment

A key aim of the CERN experiment is to find the "Higgs boson", named after Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who in 1964 pointed to such a particle as the force that gave mass to matter and made the universe possible.

But other mysteries of physics and cosmology - supersymmetry, dark matter and dark energy among them - are at the focus of experiments in the 27km circular tunnel deep underneath the Swiss-French border.

CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research, says its key researchers - and many ordinary staff - have been inundated by e-mails voicing fears about the experiment.

There have been claims that it will create "black holes" of intensive gravity sucking in CERN, Europe and perhaps the whole planet, or that it will open the way for beings from another universe to invade through a "worm hole" in space-time.

But a safety review by scientists at CERN and in the United States and Russia, issued at the weekend, rejected the prospect of such outcomes.

"The LHC will enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us," Aymar, who has led CERN for five years, said in response to that review. "The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction."

'Little bangs'

Cox, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Britain's Manchester University, was even more trenchant. "I am immensely irritated by the conspiracy theorists who spread this nonsense around," he said.

When the experiment begins soon after 09:00 (0700 GMT) on September 10, disaster scenarists will have little to work on.

In the first tests, a particle beam will be shot all the way around the LHC channel in just one direction. If all goes well, collisions might be tried within the coming weeks, but at low intensity. Any bangs at this stage, said one CERN researcher, "will be little ones".

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

    I'm waiting....got my cases of wine packed and ready......

[georg ruf jr.]

I'm clocer to it than you Diana. But the only black holes I can see are those from the  and  .

[Michael Alexander]

That blerrie black hole better pitch up soon, I left the toilet seat up this morning and just to tempt fate, i left the lid of the toothpaste.....

[Delia]

Just got back from fetching Caryn from school, she wasn't feeling well, took her home quickly.  As she got in the car, she says to me "Mom, everyone at school's talking about these 2 atom bombs that were meant to go off at 9 this morning".  She says at 9am everyone was like "Sssh" - hands to their ears listening waiting for the 

I told her i'd heard about it and mentioned briefly what it was all about - she says "but what if the experiment goes wrong".  I said to her "well my darling, the fact that we're still here says it didn't".........(unless  it did and we're all floating off  into that big black hole and we just don't know it yet........)

[Bertie Horak]

Only "one-way" particle beam today, no little bangs today, so don't make too many plans yet, the experiment is only starting today which compares to a school project.  More dangerous parts of the experimentation coming later.  Might be like pouring water into a glass - bit by bit, until it overflows (BANG!)......OOPS......SLURP...... Why is it so dark all of a sudde-e-e-e-e-n.... ... .. .    .      .        .          .            .   

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

@ Michael John Alexander 

I suggest you make your way home quickly! 

[georg ruf jr.]

Alzheimer can be cured???


Ohh! I'd better get out of here before Michele gets back.

[Michael Alexander]

Don't Panic...... I went home quickly..... Phew! That was close.....

[georg ruf jr.]

 

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

  is all I have to say to you men!

Where's the bot squad when you need them!

cowgirl

[georg ruf jr.]

 

[SandyB]

So when's the  next  end of the world  party ??   

[Rhona]

Are we still here or are we floating?