The Doomsday Clock is ticking down

Originally posted by jasonjnelson
Either 3 or 15 more hours until 8/8/8/ at 8 in beijing...

Any last minute predictions on this one?

Yeah, the most solid prediction yet ....... nothing of doom will happen due to CERN on 8/8/8 for one reaon - this is not the day a particle collision happens. That is not until September.

What CERN is doing Friday is injecting the first protons into the machine. Essentially it is "charging the system".

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I actually meant to go to my 8/8/8 thread that I started a week ago... lol, I had agreed when you posted this info to me a week ago as well... agreed that nothing major might happen, however remember that they are firing a test burst tomorrow.. www.abovetopsecret.com...'

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Ahh. I'm just inserting this tidbit into all the LHC/ Aug8 / Doomsday threads I see, as most everyone is under the impression that the action which could theoretically invoke a black hole is not on 8/8/8.

The countdown site:

www.lhcountdown.com...

is DOWN!!!

Ominous or what?

Lol.. A tragic event happened on 8/8/08? How do you feel?

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oh that's a fantastic idea...

on the other hand, with that in mind... what's to stop a "micro wormhole" appearing in the vicinity of a foreign leader/dictator... enemy fleet...

With recent events.. should the time be advanced closer to midnight? I'm just thinking about NK, swine flu, Pak, Afganistan, Iraq, Iran the list goes on, maybe the clock should be brought 'up to speed' so to speak?

The LHC is down for maintenance, it will not fire again until september 2009.

The first beams were circulated successfully on 10th September 2008. Unfortunately on 19th September a serious fault developed damaging a number of superconducting magnets. The repair will required a long technical intervention which overlaps with the planned winter shutdown. The LHC beam will, therefore, not see beam again before September 2009.

All the magnets are now depleted, there are no spares left !

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. The tunnel is buried around 50 to 175 m. underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva. The LHC is designed to collide two counter rotating beams of protons or heavy ions. Proton-proton collisions are foreseen at an energy of 7 TeV per beam.

Source: lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch...

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