It's the end of the world as we know it! Woo Woo

Andy @ Allerton · March 12, 2008

I've known about this (As I'm sure have a lot of you) for quite a while - but the day is soon coming when the new much longer Cern particle accelerator is going online.

They've been tonking things together for quite a while and getting loads of 'new' particles appearing - but they haven't tonked them together enough to reveal the real building blocks of the universe. So the new thingy is longer and will provide faster collisions with much more energy.

Why could this perhaps be a problem?

Well - the results of this are experimentally unknown - theoretically it will be safe enough as any minor problems - like, say, the creation of mini black holes should (According to theory) evaporate before they cause a problem.

But is this really real? We're on the Earth - mucking about with things that we're not sure about - and the effects aren't known 100%

Is anyone else a bit nervous about it? What if the black holes collide and then explode? What if they merge - then drop to the centre of the planet - growing and eating what they find there? What if something utterly unexpected happens and we rip a massive hole in reality itself?

We're probably going to be ok though. I'm sure they've thought it all through.

Probably.

Nathan Explosion · March 12, 2008