End of the World?

[WadeH]

An experiment to simulate the Big Bang is to be begun by the CERN Institute in Switzerland at 07:00 GMT (3:00pm AWST).

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL846768920080908?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

"Scientists plan to smash particle beams together at close to the speed of light inside CERN's tightly-sealed Large Hadron Collider to create multiple mini-versions of the primeval Big Bang." ref. Robert Evans (Reuters).

Could be interesting!! It is costing a huge $9.2 billion and has some scientists a little concerned. Others say that chances of accidentally destroying the planet are extremely low. Nice.

The circular tunnel is 27km long and collisions are to take place over comming weeks.

Maybe none of us will need to worry about fine weather now! :einstein:

[matt]

:lol::lol:

Yes...I'd like the chances to be less than extremely low!!!

[BalderAsir]

you need to check out www.abovetopsecret.com (http://www.abovetopsecret.com) its a conspiracy website, some of the people in there are going ballistic over the HADRON collider.

some of the other stuff on there is great reading material as well :)

[§AB]

lol if all this scare mongerers are to be be believed, we should've been killed hundreds of times over in the past al a planetary conjuctions etc.

In the newspaper here, they were saying that it could create a "black hole" that would suck the planet in or in another scenario create huge Earthquakes, Tsunamis, rip[ apart the crust etc etc. WTF!!!??! yes a comparitively tiny, insignificant machine is really gonna do that.....

So we're all gonna die at 5:00pm EST then?? Oh damn. I guess I won't bother starting my maths assignment then. LoL

[JimmyH155]

You've got it all wrong folks. The World is not going to end tomorrow - it is going to end on the 21st December 2012. My brother-in-law wrote a book about it, so he should know;) It is called "The end of time" Good reading, so we have a few more viewing nights left yet. Maybe Eta Carina will go pop before then and bathe us in gamma rays.
Or perhaps the West and Russia will slug it out with nukes soon..... Glad I live in the Southern Hemisphere:D

[h0ughy]

................................... ................................... ..bang











i love to see it work...............

[sheeny]

I'll believe it when I see it.

(The end of the world that is...)

Al.

[BalderAsir]

oh man, don't get me started on the 2012 hype :lol:

[leon]

Dear me, what a load of crap, :screwy: you would think some of these people would get a life, before it all ends :whistle:

Leon :thumbsup:

[Ric]

Four pints of Lager and a packet of salted peanuts to cushion the shock.:P

Oh and put a paper bag over our head but only if you think it will help.;)

I think that's the SOP according to the great Douglas Adams.:thumbsup:

[TrevorW]

[Could be interesting!! It is costing a huge $9.2 billion and has some scientists a little concerned. Others say that chances of accidentally destroying the planet are extremely low. Nice.

Who cares we are screwing up the planet anyhow, another big bang might fix it.

;)

[MrB]

That sucks, you guys get an extra 2 hours to live!! :lol:

[tileys]

"It's the end of the world as we know it....and I feel fine" as the song goes... ;)

It does intrinsically worry me that they're not sure what will happen but that maybe they're going to orchestrate matter they don't know much about...does discarded dark matter go in the bin with the green top or the one with the red top ???? ;)

Steve

[ngcles]

Oh dear ...

Now where's that paper bag I set aside to put over my head.


Best,

Les D

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Jen]

:thumbsup: :lol::lol::lol::lol:
:D

[AstralTraveller]

It's 6.18 and the end of the world is 78 minutes overdue. I'm worried. I'm really beginning to worry about those comments I made to the boss. :help:

[WadeH]

Surprise, Surprise.............. at least Western Australia is still here!! :D :D

[Babalyon 5]

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Liz]

Just finished watching 'Enough Rope' with Andrew Denton, and he interviewed an English scientist, Brian Cox, re LHC - very interesting as I didnt know too much about it. You can watch it here -

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/

[Ian Robinson]

Not the least bit worried .

Any blackholes created will not last long as they will be microscopic.

[§AB]

Hey it's 8.30pm and after all that hype I'm still alive.

Friggin ripped off!

[Jen]

LOL :lol: your boss is gonna give you some crappy jobs to do tomorrow LMAO
:rofl:

[astro_nutt]

Time for a sickie!!!..LOL!!

[MrB]

hmmmm ch10 newsbreak just reported this will be happening tomorrow....
Not unusual for a news report to be wrong tho.

[Ric]

Oh well, back to paying the mortgage.:lol:

[Ian Robinson]

You might not have a job anymore .... so , in a way , you were right and your world has ended.

[norm]

For those who maybe interested:

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/about/news_items/news_item1.shtml

TOMORROW! - Wednesday 10th September at 7pm
Venue: Footbridge Theatre, University of Sydney

Title: Build your own Big Bang: CERN's Large Hadron
Collider turns on*

Presenter: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Dr Kevin Varvell

RSVP: 9351 3472 or outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au
At 5.30 pm AEST next Wednesday 10th September, scientists will hit the
big green button on the world's largest experiment, the Large Hadron
Collider at CERN. The huge energies given to tiny particles in this
experiment will take us closer to the Big Bang than we have ever been
before and propel us towards answering questions of Life, The Universe
and Everything.

One of the thousands of scientists holding his breath is Dr Kevin
Varvell from the School of Physics University of Sydney. "At last we can
test some of our ideas about what we are made of!" he says. Some ideas
are very solid, some such as mini-black holes less so.

At a public talk next Wednesday evening Dr Kevin and Dr Karl
Kruszelnicki will be giving the low down on the Large Hadron Collider,
colder than deep space, and buried 100 m in the ground in a tunnel 27 km
long under the French-Swiss border - as well as streaming live video
from CERN.

Cheers Norm

PS: I'm pretty sure its free, but those interested, maybe best to ring to confirm.

[BalderAsir]

the conspiracy wackos are saying the the initial use of the LHC is a single beam around the entire collider to test it, and that actual collisions arn't until later in the week, possibly next week

[AstralTraveller]

I'm saved! :jump2: The world will end. :2thumbs:

[Night Owl]

When many of the worlds best minds were working on the Manhattan Project prior to the first atomic bomb test (Trinity), it was seriously considered that the temperature of ignition could be so high that it would cause a spontaneous runaway reaction in other matter, such as a hydrogen hydrogen reaction in the worlds oceans. Eventually it was calculated that it wouldn't happen.

So this LHC is a case of building something and flicking the switch, but not really knowning what is going to happen. That has some element of danger.

Just imagine if supernovas aren't actually stars blowing up, but alien civilisations wiping themselves out after building LHC and turning them on?! :lol:

[GrahamL]

:atom:No more clouds to spoil an evenings viewing ..I can't wait:thumbsup:

[spearo]

hehehehe

Gotta love Douglas Adams
I think though that the four pints are to cushion the shock of traveling as you get picked up by the alien spaceship and combined with the salt of the peanuts assist in recuperating from the journey across light years.

The first requirement there being : finding aliens in a nearby spaceship willing to give you a ride after they've picked up your signal as you ask for a hitch....I fear we wont have time to get that far....

So we're left with the SOP of the paper bag over our heads for us poor non-escaping Earth based simians....

even though it wont help

There might be enough time to market some fashionable "End-of-the-World" color accessorized bags? But then again, nowhere to spend the earnings afterward...

maybe I'll just chuck a sickie for the rest of the next 2 weeks just in case...

I wont even worry about imaging anything since there's a chance we could get a whole new point of perspective....

I wonder if our collective last words will be:
"My God...Its full of stars!"


frank
PS: I think historians will describe the last couple of decades as the "doomsayers" years....seems more and more we hear of catastrophes that we should fear and are going to end the world as we know it....hole in ozone, war, weapons of mass deception, global warming, particle accelerators, Cabinet reshuffles...
;)

[spearo]

Now that I think about it...I've had an "image of the week" so as the Klingons would say...."its a good day to die"

hahahahaah
frank

[Glenhuon]

It may be a huge breakthrough, don't the Romulans use mini black holes to power their starships. Look out Galaxy, the humans are coming ;)

Bill

[jjjnettie]

If only we could develop a particle accelerator that would make all the weirdo wackos disappear.
Did you catch 4 Corners? It was about the 9/11 conspiracy. All you have to do is look at the eyes of these people to know that they are "touched" in the head.

[MrB]

wow, ch10 news got it right... oh well, I guess we'll know around 3:30pm WST today then....


Yep, 'twas mentioned as a muscle relaxant.

Dunno why everyone is so worried, it's well known that Earth is in a Plural zone :)
If anything happens another Earth will pop up in it's place, just ask the Vogons.


Damn, forgot that was on. :(

[Screwdriverone]

The world hasnt ended, but........

My washing machine is on spin cycle - and its not even plugged in to the wall.

My kids hair has all turned white.......

The dog is making collect calls using his stainless steel bowl, some aluminium foil and a paper clip pointed to Sirius A (see what I did there?), muttering something about..."kill them all I say and be done with them once and for all"

My car keys have attached themselves to the nearest Foxtel dish on the neighbours roof...

and... every time I hit 88km/h in my car, flames shoot out from under it, there is a big flash and I end up colliding with a pine tree and crashing into a farmer's barn before he shoots at me with a shotgun and I speed off into a 1950's landscape.....

Coincidence???? I THINK NOT!!!!!

;)

Chris

[BalderAsir]

hahaha nice one chris

[§AB]

lol All hail your dog and Sirius A! Otherwise die :lol:

So that's why my Foxtel has been crap...I mean I had my KFC, and my antenna all tuned ready for Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen lately! But coz of you, apparently, al I saw was static, so yer I was so pissed off; now you owe me $10 billion compensation....


that's freakin sweet I want my car to spew flames!

[erick]

I did, wondering what is the BBC doing with this crap. But they cleverly just let the conspiracy theorists speak for themselves. It was a simple assessment to make by program's end - who's wrong here.

[dannat]

I think i heard i will happen just after 5 this afternoon - maybe those pessimists among us should offer their equipment at low low prices, for us optimists to look after while they are gone ;):P

[§AB]

^^ Ahh so we're supposed to die today then? Oh I though it was yesterday.

Oh well, might aswell spend my last 3 hours piggin out on KFC and hookin up with chicks.....

[thorsmum]

Hi,
I'm a newbie to the forum and have been having a giggle at some of the replies to the "End of the World" topic..

Well my computer says 3.01pm and we're still here,

the dog is doing tricks on top of his kennel, the dog nextdoor is calling out, my dishes aren't done, the washing isn't either and it's a beautiful spring afternoon..... in melbourne.

Maybe we're in an alternative dimension already. in a split millisecond, I did send a silent message to SG1 to ask for a stargate quickly and alternatedly gave Thor a quick call to beam me up and we'll go live with the Asgard.

Thorsdads just called me silly, :screwy: why not join in with all the mayhem.

[Ric]

Well 5:30pm came and went, when all of a sudden nothing happened or did it? :whistle:

Maybe Thorsmum is right the black hole opened up and we are now in a alternate galaxy on the other side of the Universe.

A good excuse to get the scope out tonight and see if the stars and galaxies are still the same and in the right position.

Hey SAB, I like the new avatar:thumbsup:

[leon]

Ah well we are still here, :whistle: I was getting worried just before 5.30 :lol:

Leon :thumbsup:

[GrahamL]

Its Cloudy again ...guess that means the world didn't end eh? ..bummer :)

[Screwdriverone]

mmmmm, finger lickin' good Colonel Sab! ;)

1 x 44 gallon drum of potato and gravy please delivered to Sab's house, all in the "secret recipe hot tub"! :lol:

:welcome: P.S. Welcome to IIS Thorsmum, you'll find us all crackers here! looks like you will fit right in!!

Chris

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: lol Chris @ crackers speak for yourself LMAO
:lol: ok he is right :rofl::rofl:
:whistle:

[jjjnettie]

They didn't have to go to all that trouble to make a black hole.
I could have let them have the one in my son's bedroom.

[Inmykombi]

I wondered why the fillings in my teeth were playing the local radio station's music.:P

Now I know.



Geoffro.

[§AB]

ok so when are we 'sposed to die next? December 2012?

Well, seeing as we'll all be here for only 4 years, might aswell raid the local KFC joint. I want their freaking coleslaw it's actually better than the chicken itself! Culinary orgasm right derrrr!

Might aswell pay a visit to Dan Murphys while i'm at it.

[space oddity]

Managed to get in to the talk at the footbridge tonight. Today was basically a test , the collisions are next week , so we will just have to sweat it out till then. Will the time seem to pass very slowly , as it should when you get sucked into a black hole ? At least they "have beam" , which augers well for the real stuff next week. I wonder how many exotic short lived "fundamental " particles they will come out with ? In the meantime, may the beam be with you .

[§AB]

good gravy how many times are we going to die already?

[Screwdriverone]

To the KFC SAB! PRONTO!

:)

[Terry B]

Just to check whats going on.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedt heworldyet.com/

[Outbackmanyep]

Just like Roger Waters song "......and when they found our shadows, grouped round the TV sets, they ran down every lead...they repeated every test, they checked out all the data on their list, and then...the alien anthropologists admitted they were still perplexed, and on eliminating every other reason for our sad demise...they logged the only explanation left....THIS SPECIES HAS AMUSED ITSELF TO DEATH"

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol:
:thumbsup:

[MrB]

GOLD!

There's got to be an island or small country somewhere with lots of embarressed doomsday theorists hiding-out.
All those worriers over LHC, Y2K, Nostradamus, conjunctions, Halley's, etc etc etc....

[Mark]

For those who are concerned the end is nigh, you can keep an eye on the LHC here: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

I watched for a while..but it's kinda boring.

Mark

[§AB]

to be honest, I'd be laughing myself to death at anyone who actually thinks the world is going to end :screwy:

[rider]

Yeh yeh, I’ve heard the interviews with the loonies, and with the scientists.

However, Conspiracies aside, every now and then someone intelligent does something without knowing the outcome.
Scientists in particular have done this before. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes not.

Cane toads come to mind, but every now and then it can have worse consequences if it goes wrong.

A few years back one of the people who built the first atom bomb admitted that at the time they set off the bomb, they were unsure if it would cause a chain-reaction involving every atom on earth. – they still pressed that ultimately attractive little red button.

Personally, I don’t think there is a down side to the black-hole thing.

Scientists right: new and exciting knowledge for earths current plaque animal to play with.
Loonies right: global warming problem fixed for good.