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Today in my Physics class we proved using science and maths that the world will not end tomorrow, as the press in the UK have been stating.

There is an experiment, to find out what the conditions in the big bang where like, tomorrow afternoon which will create temperatures comparable with the sun, but these will not be felt at over a meter away from the atoms. The Experiment also will create a few very small black holes. But the energy involved / it creates is still less than 1J which is nothing.

Energy like that and more powerful has been hitting earth in the forms of cosmic rays for billions of years, so if the earth is destroyed, it would have happened by now.

So stop worrying people.

http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/lhc_simulation/

Nice to see some optimism.

Energy like that and more powerful has been hitting earth in the forms of cosmic rays for billions of years, so if the earth is destroyed, it would have happened by now.

That argument is flawed, the black holes created by cosmic rays hitting the earths atmosphere are travelling at basically the speed of light. This causes them to go straight through the earth as the earths gravity is not strong enough to slow them down to hang around. However with these experiments such as CERN the blackholes will be created relative to the speed of the earth and therefore hang around and of course be slowly drawn into the earth by gravity.

The hope that the earth doesn’t get sucked into one is based on Hawkins theories, which have no real support and that my physics teachers are inclined to disagree with but hope he is right.

Today there was some powerfull Earthquakes that hit Iran, chile Japan and indonasia shortly after the LHC expirement.

Also a girl commited suicide in India out of fear of the end of world
:down:

But hey..were still here, eh?

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

view the source its funny

I don’t think they are actually doing any colliding yet.  They are just running beams around one direction, then the other direction and then eventually colliding.  They also won’t be up to full power until something like next year.  Not sure how that compares to other particle colliders already running.

I actually hope the world does end.  I think it would be a great view right before it goes.  Anyways, I have lived to see CodeIgniter.  What else is there to see but a blackhole eating the Earth?

The world isn’t ending, neither will it any time soon. People were fretting because at 8:30am yesterday, the press said the world was going to end because they will smash protons into each other. When in actual fact all they did at 8:30am was turn the machine on; and gradually add a beam and let it go through into one chamber, then performed checks to see if everything was ok. They then let it go to another chamber, performed checks etc, until eventually it was whizzing around the LHC at nearly the speed of light.

Colliding didn’t actually happen until 8:00pm (ish) because that;s when they planned to have the two beams collide. So, if anything, we would’ve all be wiped out of the universe on 8:00pm yesterday.

I just looked down and I’m still here, so does that mean the press have taken the 0.001% (needs clarifying) chance of the world ending and blown it up to be something really big?! Hell yeah!

It’s the end of the world and I feel great!

P.S, My IT Lecturer coded parts of the programs to monitor the LHC, so I get some extra info 😊

Joke—>>

Scientists have a tradition, every 13.7 billion years they all gather together and build a Large Hadron Collider 😊

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

view the source its funny

Must say I like the url too :p

I actually hope the world does end.  I think it would be a great view right before it goes.  Anyways, I have lived to see CodeIgniter.  What else is there to see but a blackhole eating the Earth?

Also, better the world be annihilated by something awesome like Superscience than something dumb (like asteroids or cosmic gamma ray bursts).