World to end Wednesday
Well, not really -- the actual experiments that could result in potentially disastrous "micro black holes" won't happen for another month (and probably won't end anything except the lives of a few protons), but as rumored, CERN's flipping the switch on the four billion dollar Large Hadron Collider this Wednesday to test the superconducting magnets that control the proton beams. After a clockwise test, they'll send protons counter-clockwise, and after that -- smashy time. Of course, there are still paranoid lawsuits pending to shut all this down, and we wouldn't mind another rap video or two, but after two decades of work, it's probably time to boot this thing up, death threats or no. Let's make it a good last month of humanity, people.























Dear LHC-CERN scientists,
Can you drill oil with this?
Looking forward to your reply,
Senator John McCain
Seriously, you people have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to theoretical quantum physics. Your ignorance is so annoying. But I'm not claiming I know crap either. All I'm saying is the people making the LHC are some of the smartest people in the world and they know what they are doing. They would know any risks of the LHC A LOT more than any of you could hope to understand in your lifetime. And if they found a reasonable risk, even a 0.1% risk, then they would stop it.
Seriously people, you have no idea what the crap you are talking about. Don't try to use quatom physics to make an argument against the LHC.
Yeah, I think I got your point..
If that thing's gonna kill us, why would they invent it?
Dr. Jekyll: It's for the love of Science!!! Shut up with your conscience nonsense..
Will the broadcast of the end of the world be in HD? If not, we got screwed. Do I need DirecTV? If so, screwed again.
Can I set my TiVO to catch it just in case? I may be at an end-of-the-world party.
I would like to start this by saying thank you engadget for all the great articles even the crappy ones, ie worst gadgets, wait those were actually funny, haha darn usb rubix cube. Lastly my confessions, alright I did eat the sandwich in the fridge it tasted chalky and nutty, think it was tuna or peanut butter.
u guys are crazy y are u trying to creat a blackhole tht is stupid as hell if we all die from this i wil be pist and i will haunt the guy tht made this killer macheine
What was it that killed the Cat?
The scientologists?
They are waiting for you in the test chamber Gordon..... :P
It's so funny the way this has been so controversial. It's just got to do with the way scientist think compared to the rest of us! "Possible," just doesn't mean the same thing to someone who spends a lot of time calculating the unimaginably small and the amazingly large you know? I've read that there's no law that insists time move in a linear way. From that perspective it's "possible" that I remember what will happen tomorrow!
Thank science we have handy interactive materials to explain these things.
Materials like this:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/cgortz/fuz-ion
All praise science!!!
pish posh.
the world already ended when tyra banks got her own show.
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now we'll never know when the new Aluminum MacBooks will come out
Wait a minute isn't that how Half-Life Started!!!! Oh No!!! I Better play the damn game again!!!! Oh No!! I Can't find it!!!! NOOOOO!!! NOW I WON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN THE MONSTERS COME OUT OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE!!!!! I HAVE TO FIND THAT GAME!!!
time to get out my shine crowbar...
if the world woz to end then evey1 well not give a shit coz if it woz know1 wont be sitin about shops banks and stuff will have bin robed evey1 woud just do abit of crime coz ther wont be nawt to live for if the world is a end