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#917042 - 03/07/08 03:20 PM
May 2008: End of the World?
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Has anyone been following the CERN Particle Collider preparing to go online in France/Switzerland in May 2008? I read my copy of National Geographic which spurred me to do more research. Although fascinating, this experiment is attempting to recreate conditions at a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Here's a site that outlines some of the potential dangers. Granted, I'm don't understand all the science, but when someone says there a potential to create a black hole or other phenomena that will potentially destroy the planet, I take notice. If you want to learn more, read the newest National Geographic, I also found this after Googling "CERN dangers:" CERN Risk Evaluation
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#917049 - 03/07/08 03:27 PM
Re: May 2008: End of the World?
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#917052 - 03/07/08 03:28 PM
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#917065 - 03/07/08 03:33 PM
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#917107 - 03/07/08 03:55 PM
Re: May 2008: End of the World?
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I assume it would take only a fraction of a second for the black hole to suck everything in, so we probably won't even realise it happened. Well, not for a couple of seconds anyway. By then we won't care anymore.
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#917147 - 03/07/08 04:10 PM
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My second child is due in May. My wife has already advised me that my life (as I know it) is ending.
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#917150 - 03/07/08 04:13 PM
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#917226 - 03/07/08 04:42 PM
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I don't think anyone who uses that term would consider it so.
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#917230 - 03/07/08 04:43 PM
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LOL, agreed, I never have considered mine full
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#917234 - 03/07/08 04:46 PM
Re: May 2008: End of the World?
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My second child is due in May. My wife has already advised me that my life (as I know it) is ending. It was my experience that two are twice as much work as one, and three is ten times as much work as two. Your wife is probably correct, J. Congratulations, however, because the trade-off *is* worth it.
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#917236 - 03/07/08 04:47 PM
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I, for one, am terribly excited about CERN. I've been reading up on its progress for years and can't wait to see what sorts of new science come from it. I don't think for a second that we are all going to get sucked up into a black hole.
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#917329 - 03/07/08 05:23 PM
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Getting sucked up into a black hole might be cool though. To my understanding, a black hole is a star that has collapesed inward. And since the earth is like a spec of dust within an entire continent next to a star, ther eis no end to what we could experience inside that black hole.
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#917352 - 03/07/08 05:33 PM
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#917360 - 03/07/08 05:36 PM
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May?? i hope i get to celebrate my berfday first...
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#917386 - 03/07/08 05:46 PM
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Before the world ends, I need the Yankees to win one more WS, and win the pennant Game 7 at Fenway with a perfect game pitched, then we beat the Mets in a 4 game sweep at the WS. Thereafter, the Steelers win the SB for the other hand, against the Cowboys with 1 second left on the clock. Then the wrold could end like its no ones business, I'll be eternally content.
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#917409 - 03/07/08 06:01 PM
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Hopefully this will go the path of most government projects and meet with delays - I'm crusin to Alaska in May and don want no black hole!
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#917413 - 03/07/08 06:06 PM
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Wasn't it CERN who made the anti-matter in Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons"? Yes
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#917517 - 03/07/08 07:03 PM
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Wasn't it CERN who made the anti-matter in Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons"? Yes And what a great book that was! I loved it...so much better than the DaVinci Code And in the book, CERN was attempting/accomplished the same thing--proving the Big Bang theory by colliding two atoms...
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#917520 - 03/07/08 07:06 PM
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hmmm dip; I come from the school of hard knocks, and that is not the Big Bang theory where I come from -- just saying
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#917545 - 03/07/08 07:24 PM
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No, in the book, the scientists at CERN were trying to prove that science and religion could co-exist. They were trying to prove religion's Big Bang theory using science (that something could essentially come from nothing). You'd have to read the book to get into the workings of their plan...
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#917547 - 03/07/08 07:25 PM
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aw, I was just joking dip - being silly today, don't take anything I say as if it were meant to be serious
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