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Originally posted by Discotech
You would be better off doing a jigsaw puzzle if you want to put pieces of a puzzle together, hey at least you'll know when they fit or don't fit for sure
Nostradamus and most other prophets are jokes. They make up so called prophecies and shroud them in secrecy and allow them to be very very open to interpretation giving them a great chance of someone like yourself aligning it to something!
Here's a prophecy for you that WILL come true
In the years to come
A great fire will rain on the earth
In the depths of a cave a bear will stir
Upon this day your enemies will be shown
Of course I just randomly made that up but I'm sure most of you prophet believers will be able to link it to something because it's what you do, clinging onto the hope of something even if it's the end of the world as we know it!
I'd really love for some loopy stuff to happen because of the LHC like opening dimensions and us getting invaded by stange creatures, however I'm sensible enough to realise that, that stuff only happens in the movies!
Originally posted by Shazam The Unbowed
Threads like this make me wish for Zombie Infestations to cleanse the world.
At least in a zombie world woo-woo would be fatal.
Can we be sure that a black hole created at the LHC wouldn't expand and swallow the earth?
I think the honest answer to this question is yes. The black holes that would be produced at the LHC must also be produced by the hundreds every day due to energetic cosmic rays bombarding our earth. When cosmic rays smash into particles of earth material, it's the same type of collision that happens in the LHC. So the very fact that we exist here on earth to talk about these things tells us that even if black holes are produced, pretty much everything is very safe. Either black holes are not produced at all, or they decay very, very quickly due to Hawking radiation or an equivalent mechanism.
Originally posted by Tentickles
I quote Nostradamus:
"Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
Raypoz will exterminate all who oppose him,(?)
Before the coming the sky will show signs.
Migrés, migrés de Geneue trestous,
Saturne d'or en fer se changera,
Le contre Raypoz exteriminera tous,
Auvant l'aruent le ciel signes fera."
Originally posted by Discotech
In the depths of a cave a bear will stir
Upon this day your enemies will be shown
Originally posted by Shazam The Unbowed
Is there anyway to sue the OP for the minutes I spent reading those links? Since Ill never get them back and all.
Becasue no matter how much someone may allow themselves to fall prey to uninformed fears, the LHC is no danger to anyone.
Originally posted by gate13
i wonder if you can sue your self for making that choice to read all those links?
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator complex intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. This model is known to break down at a certain high energy level.
The LHC is being built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.[1] It is funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °C). The initial particle beams are due for injection in August 2008,[2] the first attempt to circulate beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008,[3] and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.[4]
When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.[5][1] The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches[6] are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.[7]