Wednesday

Jaitaiyai · Sep 8, 2008

Apparently we're going to die on Wednesday.
An experiment in Geneva.

At some point Wednesday (late Tuesday here in the U.S.), the switch will be thrown for the initial testing of the Large Hadron Collider on the border of Switzerland and France. The 17-mile underground loop will eventually smash stuff together with seven times the force available at the Fermilab collider in Illinois in an attempt to see what the universe was like a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. The holy grail for particle researchers will be the Higgs boson, the lone particle in the Standard Theory yet to be detected.

The LHC will circulate protons around in only one direction for a month or so to kick the tires, and then cycle them in the other direction for more testing. Once everyone is happy, it's a go for it to become a fully armed and operational collider: The streams of protons circling in opposite directions will be guided into one of four areas where they will hopefully crash into each other to reveal the sub-atomic goop before almost instantly decaying back into more common particles.

Some have raised the specter of the LHC creating subatomic black holes and other phenomena that will devour us all, despite nature having already conducted its own more-powerful collisions with cosmic rays. The objectors to the LHC say that the big difference between the cosmic ray collisions and those in the collider is that the LHC collisions are head-on, causing the black holes to stand still and not fly off into the nothingness.

The problem with that complaint, though, is that the beams of protons aren't hitting each other directly; they're crossing in an X pattern, like your old Hot Wheels race track where the cars are meant to collide in the middle. With an angled impact, any resulting weird stuff will fly off in odd directions and into space. There's also the theory of black hole evaporation (aka "Hawking radiation") that says all black holes are inevitably doomed to fizzle away into nothingness, with lifespan directly related to size. According to the generally accepted theory, these subatomic black holes will poof away in .000000000000000000000000001 seconds.

CERN, the lab running the project, has commissioned several reports that refute these fears. While it's not unwise to mistrust a company policing itself, the most recent report has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. Questioning the report's authors is one thing, but the peers who double-checked everything before publication have no reason to lie or make any dangers look less probable than they may be.

For some reason, the quote from the opening pages of Douglas Adams' "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" comes to mind:

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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Now, I dont believe we're all going to die, im sure some of us will but not all. I just love to see the looks on peoples faces when you tell 'em about it. Gotta love the theory though - first science helped us lengthen peoples lives, now its apparently going to shorten them. Considerably.

stalk · Sep 8, 2008

No one is going to die,
that's pseudoscientifical misinformation.

Piaf · Sep 8, 2008

I dont care if I die on Wednesday. I've had enough.

Boogabaah · Sep 8, 2008

well good. i have court wednesday morning..

IamnotaMan · Sep 8, 2008

Piaf said:

I dont care if I die on Wednesday. I've had enough.
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Don't say that , seriously : (
After that thread when Penny was ill.

Piaf , shall I post that thing, its ok?Yes I know u think I'm a cxxt,sorry
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Is it 1% chance of the end of the world?

What u do , Boogabaah?

What?? · Sep 8, 2008

Piaf said:

I dont care if I die on Wednesday. I've had enough.
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I feel ya man

Piaf · Sep 8, 2008

RessotaspiksMan said:

Piaf , shall I post that thing, its ok?Yes I know u think I'm a cxxt,sorry
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I would appreciate it if my username wasnt mentioned anymore. It gets old....and annoying.

Piaf · Sep 8, 2008

What?? said:

I feel ya man
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:cheers2:

IamnotaMan · Sep 8, 2008

Piaf said:

I would appreciate it if my username wasnt mentioned anymore. It gets old....and annoying.
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Like I said , I dont know what to do.
If that thing looks ok to u , I will.
Whatever u want said yes?

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Does CERN or whatever it is ,actually do anything worthwhile?
My friend worked there but couldnt convince me of anything.

I'minmyunderwear · Sep 8, 2008

jesus piaf, what the hell did you do to upset this poor guy?

wednesday's a good day for the world to end, i have several things to do that day.

mystical_shroom · Sep 8, 2008

Wednesday was when my real family who are aliens were going to come and take me back home.. This is highly disappointing...

stalk · Sep 8, 2008

Yeah Fuck All

This Wednesday Appocolypto

No Turning Back

mystical_shroom · Sep 8, 2008

I wouldn't want to fuck all, then everyone would be infected...not good...

stalk · Sep 8, 2008

Fuck It

mystical_shroom · Sep 8, 2008

keep hope alive...

I'minmyunderwear · Sep 8, 2008

mystical_shroom said:

I wouldn't want to fuck all, then everyone would be infected...not good...
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but everyone's dying anyway... this is like a free pass for you

if i make it to wednesday night i'll fuck all the corpses...

stalk · Sep 8, 2008

Not On Wednesdays

mystical_shroom · Sep 8, 2008

I'minmyunderwear;4687662 said:

but everyone's dying anyway... this is like a free pass for you

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Well, that is true... if they don't mind the burning and the hideous smell then sure.. why not right...

IamnotaMan · Sep 8, 2008

I'minmyunderwear;4687646 said:

jesus piaf, what the hell did you do to upset this poor guy?

wednesday's a good day for the world to end, i have several things to do that day.
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Its nothing.Doesnt matter.I reacted to something and it went overheated.
I suggested I put something up to say that XX had some bad shit said about her and I shouldnt have said it.Shouldve basically stayed private but didnt.

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Shall we get back to topic?
I'm expecting to be alive on Wed and Thu.
Not massively, just alive.: )

mystical_shroom · Sep 8, 2008

I know too much about some of you and your lives...

but that doesn't matter all will end Wednesday....

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