Colliding Large Hadrons

[nilsigma]

Yes, we have less than 24 hours before the world is sucked into a black hole created by the maniac scientists at CERN. Well, OK, that is not really the case, but still, I was once a maniac scientist (or possibly a Boffin) so I feel they should get all the publicity they can

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[reikimaster]

actually, the black hole will not swallow us for about four years. we gots some time.

[nilsigma]

Another fine bit of science reporting from the Daily Mail! (Sorry, me and the Daily Mail rarely see eye to eye on almost anything. I like the idea that the billion dollar budget of CERN is all down to one Welsh scientist on a mission). Anyway, four years is plenty, so I can eat my lunch in comparative security.

[reikimaster]

yes, it's all right silly

[kloroform]

Think they'll snatch the Higgs boson at last?

[nilsigma]

Seriously

[kloroform]

I can't help but marvel how CERN is able attract such a crazy funding with the ease of a magician who pulls a bunny out of his hat. "Obscene amount of money" indeed. The hunt for the 'God Particle' better be worth it, because the staggering amounts of cash it has taken to scrape this whole circus together (not to mention actually running it on a daily basis) could almost solve the third world food crisis.

Then again, a wild goose chase could be far more pleasant idea than the old testament God jumping out of the finally unveiled Higgs boson and punishing us with an apocalypse for opening the Pandora's box. On the other hand, you believe in neither of those entities, and I remain as an agnostic, so perhaps we'll be safe? "Is it safe? Is it safe?" LOL

I'm just wondering when mankind faces the day when it has poked it's fingers into something that's far beyond it's capabilities to control. Perhaps not just yet (even though doomsayers cry 'black holes' even now), but I think we're getting closer every day.

[nilsigma]

Well, of course the original steam trains would 'suck the air out of your lungs' at speeds faster than a galloping horse. And girls brains explode if you teach them something as complex as reading. So yes, one day we will go too far.

And then, after the apocalypse, there will be two people left on the smoking earth - a scientist saying 'Ok so lets try again with alpha set to 0.372 this time' and a journalist saying 'I told you so'.

Oh, and a 14 yo blogger complaining that her parents don't treat her like an adult because they won't let her have anal sex with the dishy man next door ...