Its just over 24 hours til the end of the world! (1 Viewer)

[Gambra]

http://www.lhcountdown.com/

It's 26 hours until the Large Hadron Collider is switched on. Will the world end? Will nothing happen?

 

[Cara]

Are you serious? Are they actually turning that thing on? I only heard of this things existance last week, and I was so terrified that I cried.

 

[Space]

Oh yeah. Is it gonna be broadcast live anywhere?

 

[sweetoblivion]

I've never heard of this and I have a feeling I will regret googling it....

 

[Cara]

Don't, but talk to everyone you love over the next day, and let them know you love them, and go to confession

 

[drkdrk]

This is gonna be great...

 

[oh shit]

i wanted to work at CERN when i was a physics student
i for one am looking forward to having my molecules inverted.

 

[Cara]

Is it likely we're all going to die? Seriously, like, should I get flights tomorrow to be with my family?

 

[oh shit]

nobody really knows, that's why they had to build it to find out

 

[oh shit]

three likely scenarios:
1) nothing happens, some nerds drink champagne and take the next morning off
2) the solar system instantly collapses into a black hole, all life is instantly destroyed
3) the solar system collapses into a black hole, all time and space is suspended, but human conciousness turns out to be transcendent after all, and we remain aware of our eternal suspension
4) donnie darko sacrifices himself and saves everyone by going back and letting the engine crush him
5) five?!

 

[Gambra]

I predict wild rioting and looting in the streets. I can't wait now.

 

[sweetoblivion]

can someone explain this to me - the website's full of physics jargon and I'm sleepy.

Why does it mean the end of the world?

 

[Dktr. Faustus]

if the collider brings donnie darko anywhere near me, i'll blow up switzerland

 

[oh shit]

there's an infinitesimally small chance that the outcome of the particle collision under these extreme conditions will result in a black hole - the theoretical limit point of time and space - which will instantly expand and turn the vicinity of our solar system into a void

 

[sweetoblivion]

there's an infinitesimally small chance that the outcome of the particle collision under these extreme conditions will result in a black hole - the theoretical limit point of time and space - which will instantly expand and turn the vicinity of our solar system into a void

Oh.

 

[taubstumm]

::clef::
we're all gonna die in the hunt for higgs boson
it's your last day alive girl, so don't keep your clothes on
::clef::

 

[oh shit]

i like the other doomsday possibility - that the temporary black holes they hope to create don't disappear, but float away from the collider to the centre of the earth, where they slowly grow and devour it from the inside. that's a pretty picture.

 

[classic seanc]

Is this something to do with the Lisbon treaty?

 

[Dktr. Faustus]

 

[Froog]