LHC is Go! (in Off-topic)

LHC, 8AM Wednesday

If it doesn't all go well, I just wanted to let you know I love you guys! And if something, strange, does occur, I hope it gives me super pwers! And cool ones to boot! :P

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane...

gosh darn it! how inconvenient!

It better not prevent me from getting NHL 09 on the 11th.

Woohoo! I can't wait!

Are Black Holes a swift painless death or a long drawn-out agonizing death?

If it's the latter I may just sleep in.

Pfft! If Hawking says it's going to be alright, then I'll just go right ahead and make plans for Thursday. Yeah baby!!! Smash those atoms!!! SMASH 'EM!!!!

"If Hawking says it's going to be alright, then I'll just go right ahead and make plans for Thursday."

That's what I'm talking about. I'm just going to sit by and wait for nothing to happen, so I can laugh at the naysayers.

If it makes you feel any better, they are only attempting to circulating the beam on Wednesday. High energy collisions don't start for at least a month.

Isn't the point of building this massive contraption to see what will happen?
Doesn't that mean they don't know what will happen?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Mr. Hawking is a really nice guy and all, but why build something to tell you what you already know?

So they can verify what they already know is correct.

No no. Hawking never said he knew what would happen. He simple said it already happens all the time. The DIFFERENCE is that there we can study and try to understand them. They happen to fast and to randomly for any kind of observation to really be done in nature.

5 scientific experiments most likely to end the world

For all we know Hawking could be in league with the aliens. After all, as a trusted TV personality he can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground caves. I'll be getting my HEV suit ready, just in case.

We are all going to die :( And I will pop up back from the future to tell them that.

Don't use the time machine! That'll kill us too.

It'll bring the world together, into one very small space.;)..

I think we're going to go out like Steve Irwin. You just wait, the Gouda cheese is planning its attack.... Oh yes it is....

I can guarantee 150% that no black holes will become of this... I can do so because if I'm wrong... Who's gonna say "I toldya so"?

I will... cause I'll be in stuck in some space continuum

Draco AKA Kissoon, hiding in his loop in time. I wonder if a black hole can invade your loop? Back to Quiddity for us all!!!

Mere hours from destruction.

Tonight, we dine in hell!

"Are Black Holes a swift painless death or a long drawn-out agonizing death?"

Both. Time slows down in a black hole. This means a swift death from the viewpoint of the victim, but a long drawn out death as observed from the outside.

8AM Eastern?

Hmm, great point Bart! While our deaths (if such a thing were to happen, which again, MR HAWKING seems to say no and that's good enough for me!) would come quickly, the aliens observing would get to enjoy the sight for a long time as the light traveling from our demise would be kept nearly at bay by the power of the BLACK HOLE! (What a great movie that was!)

9:30 Swiss time, which is 7:30 UTC, so about 2:30am Eastern.

I'll be asleep.

Do any of you honestly, honestly think anything that bad is going to happen?

There's always a chance something will go horribly, horribly wrong.

But, really, why does it matter if the world is consumed in a black hole? If nothing bad happens, then life goes on. If it really does eat up our planet, nobody will be around to complain about it (and the environmentalists will win! Err... lose. Err... both?).

Andddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd


We're still alive.

So they booted up 30 minutes ago? No Blue Screens of Death yet? That's good i guess, lol.

Seriously though, the scientists supposedly received death threats from people. I guess they didn't care though, either the thing does no harm (the people won't kill them) or it does and everyone's dead anyways, haha.

Again, they're just circulating the beam at this stage. You'll have to wait another month or so for the exciting stuff.

For those wanting an update...

I don't know about you guys, but a piece of the sky just fell on my head. What is going on?!?! If that continues to happen, I may have to get mad at somebody... :P

so is the official CB response:
A) Yippee we are still alive and burning BA!
or
B) Awwww... what happened to the rampant destruction we were promised?

Just curious...

I'm gonna have to go with B... I just love Rampant destruction... it reminds me of a Carnage Blender...

"j'bob September 9 11:01 PM EDT Draco AKA Kissoon, hiding in his loop in time. I wonder if a black hole can invade your loop? Back to Quiddity for us all!!! "


Oh man I love that book; I'll have to dig that out when I get back home!!!

Scratch what I said about getting my hockey game.

Meeting my end would be tragedy if I could not get Death Magnetic this week. It would also be very ironic.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet ?
:)

Sickone, is that link set to automatically update should the LHC destroy the world?

If not we might miss the party here in our internet defined reality.
Let's face it, being the last one to know about the world ending would just be embarrassing so this is rather important.

you do realize they dont do anything for a month? it needs to get the particles moving very quickly b4 they crash them

NOTHING is going to happen.

It's like I said on another forum.

"I think the same people whining about why this shouldn't be done are the same ones who think evolution is a sham. They're just afraid of knowing the truth."

Lochnivar, from the source of that page: <!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated
please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund -->

Nice...

I saw that too, I almost laughed out loud! Along with the code to actually "determine" the whether the Earth is destroyed or not.

"<script type="text/javascript">
if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) {
document.write("YUP.");
} else {
document.write("NOPE.");
}
</script>"

Seems like a lot of trouble just to write "NOPE." I wonder if there are future plans for this page after the final tests are run.

Haha, this is really cool. :)