I don't mean to scare anyone
At school today I heard people saying that the world is going to end on Wednesday so I decided to have a look on google because I would at least want to prepare myself the best I can. I would have thought some of you lot would have heard something about it too but I will try and reassure you anyway
This is probably the best thing I could actually find:
This Wednesday the most advanced scientific instrument ever built will be switched on in Geneva.
It was originally due to be turned on a couple of weeks ago but was put back, rumour has it, due to Andrew Marr being on holiday and the request that he cover the story for the BBC to maximize the media attention.
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.
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I thought this did'nt give too much informaion on the whole thing although I did find the bit I have highlighted quite amusing. If the planet is destoryed then suing them wont exactly do much good
They are doing the eperiment because they are trying to explain the 'big bang theory' or something (quite hard to understand when they put all the big fancy words in)
I saw 'CERN' in the aticle so I looked them up on google and I have jus posted the link instead of an article because there are so many and there are quite a few diagrams so it would be easier for you to just take a look.
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.htmlIMO it is just a load of bollocks because why would they risk the entire planet on something they don't have to do?
If any of you are worrying about it then I hope looking at the 'CERN' website will put your fears to rest (no pun intended). They appear to know what they are doing and they have even written an article reiterating the safety of the experiment.
Also, and this is the part which actually convinced me altogether that it will be ok; A quote from a certain Steven Hawking
Professor Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, said: "Collisions at these and greater energies occur millions of times a day in the Earth’s atmosphere, and nothing terrible happens."
They have even provided a link so that you can watch it:
http://webcast.cern.chAnd the experiment is set to begin at around 8am (just as im getting up for school)
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However if the worst does happen then all I can say is that they picked a great time to do it, just after the football season has started
Y.N.W.A and I look forward to posting on the forum again tomorrow (if JD has'nt banned me for potentially scaring the life out of people and making them commit suicide to get it over and done with
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