I read in a NY Times article about a lawsuit being launched in Hawaii to stop a large-scale physics experiment in Switzerland. The experiment will try to reproduce conditions that existed immediately after the Big Bang. Some people are worried it may also create a small black hole that will eat the Earth.
Here’s a photo of the collider:
It looks like the planet eater from Star Trek’s The Doomsday Machine episode:
(This post was actually written by Jenny)
I’ve always thought that this is the way we’d destroy ourselves, before we do it via war or the collapse of society.
If they create a black hole, we won’t know what hit us. The whole world will cease to exist in a nanosecond.
Should be interesting.
Ah yes, but how would we know?
(Part of me is completely freaked out by this. Part of me is rolling my eyes at the other part of me.)
Man yer slow, I wrote about this in september of ’06. You shoulda been scared since then!!
http://penderwood.dreamhosters.com/2006/09/22/hey-baby-hows-about-you-and-me-make-some-mini-big-bangs/
Pender, your post doesn’t carry the same weight without the Star Trek reference.
I’m surprised this post hasn’t been picked up by blogs all over the world. This should be big news. People don’t appreciate Star Trek like they should.
Maybe some kind of freaky time warp / time travel event will occur as a result of the experiment thus causing the big bang billions of years ago ! PARADOX !!!!!
well if thats the case there is our universe just very small and some time to come this will happen again in that very small universe and technically we’d be classed as our own gods
i see this as a time to look at god and say if its time its time. and if a 13 year old boy can think that ya’ll should be able to also :)
Lots of people seem to think our nation has the best military. Historically, european militaries have always been ahead of ours. What I mean to say is, despite all our stealth bombers, thermonuclear weapons, and massive land sea and air forces, the europeans have come up with a way to destroy us all at will with a single company. Kudos to them. MASS GRAVES modern style.
Lots of people seem to think our nation has the best military.
“Our nation” being Canada, of course.