I think it's a trick.

Was just about to post something on this .

This is what people think will happen :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM

Also this :

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080909-black-hole.html


Life as we KNOW it just might all come to an end in a few hours. I'm not sure how many of you have been following this, but the Large Hadron Collider will fire up in a few hours. There are a few scientists who believe these experiments might trigger a black hole, which will eventually swallow planet Earth and eventually our entire solar system, erasing any evidence that we were ever here. Here's the scary part: the scientists who are pretty confident that a scenario like this will not happen admit that in theory, there is an outside chance that this could happen. I personally feel that if we're going to attempt something like this all scientists should all be 100% sure that there is a 0% possibility that a black hole can be spawned before trying something like this, but that's just me... lol. On the other hand, the data that comes from these experiments can increase our knowledge of everything exponentially.

Physicists across the globe are on the edges of their seats, but not because they're worried about a Franco-Swiss black hole.

In recreating the conditions present a trillionth of a SECOND after the big bang, the collider could reveal the nature of dark MATTER, thought to provide structure throughout the universe, scientists say. The machine could also unmask a theoretical but as yet unseen particle, called Higgs boson—or the "God particle"—that is believed to give other particles their mass.

There's also a very, very remote chance that the process will spawn black holes—any one of which could assume an odd orbit within Earth, devouring microscopic chunks of matter until the entire planet is gone, physicists say.

This and other harrowing—and equally unlikely—scenarios prompted a couple of independent scientists to sue this past spring to stop the atom smasher. So far they haven't succeeded, and the vast majority of the world's physicists are on board with the project.


I have a couple of good links myself.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL846768920080910
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/09/09/cern-launches-the-big-bang-tomorrow/
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/09/200891075946173923.html
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/big-bang-machine-switched-on-$1239966.htm
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html

I think I'll move this to the Other Section seeing as there isn't a TOPIC about this yet.Heh, check this out:

Heh, nice PICTURES evil and Carbon. I'll see you all after this happens since I'm sure they know what they're doing and it's not going to be the end of the world.Aww man, back to Off Topic?

Oh well. Successful Test:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5nGPtmoUVIJDgehVJ_snD6vDA6gD933PMQG0Well that's good to hear and see the world didn't come to and end like some people seemed to think was going to happen.So they say Quote from: T-Rex on September 10, 2008, 05:41:56 AM

So they say

Eventually, two proton beams will be steered in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second.