[Sea of Time]

http://en.wikipedia....Hadron_Collider

First test is in 18 hours. Giant unstable black holes resulting in the near universe being destroyed a remote possibility.

Hold on to your hats.

[Folcon]

I kinda doubt some of that article when it says the beams will be -2K, seeing as 0K is absolute zero and no temp can be below that. But it might just be a typo. I know I make them all the time.

[Caael]

Sweet.

[Sea of Time]

Grab some boobs while you still can.

[Caael]

Done and done. And I mean done.

[TheEnglishman]

Reminds me of Majora's Mask: 'Dawn of the Final Day' '18 hours remain'
But hopefully we won't all be killed. Hopefully.

[FlamingDuck]

escout, on May 13 2008, 04:41 PM, said:

I kinda doubt some of that article when it says the beams will be -2K, seeing as 0K is absolute zero and no temp can be below that. But it might just be a typo. I know I make them all the time.

That says ~2K, with the ~ meaning about. It probably some decimal no one but scientists care about.

As for the test...Uh oh.

[Split Infinity]

Darnit John, I was going to make this topic...

[kate]

I hate majora's mask. What are we talking about?

Well if they're ending our universe than there's no way I'm studying for bio...wait...18 hours, that'll be after my exam.

DAMN IT ALL

[Someone Else]

Majora's Mask was awesome and you know it.

[Split Infinity]

And I never played it. :P

I HAVE TO FIND A ROM IN THE NEXT 18 HOURS!

[Lemontime]

I DON'T WANNA DIE!! :'(!!

[Someone Else]

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200.../27/823924.aspx

Meh, cross your fingers anyway.

[kate]

That moon haunts my nightmares. I hope it burns in hell D:

crazy psycho moon thing.

[Toasty]

I'm really only worried about strangelets forming. A microscopic black hole wold take at least a few days to become nearlyimpossible to deal with. All you'd have to do in either case, is throw it into outerspace. Or in the black hole's case, find some way to split it into bilions of atoms light enough to fit on the periodic table.

Wit a strangelet, well,is a stangelet has a charge of any kind, either positive or negative,all youd have to do is encase it in a vacuum, and surround that container on all sides with magnets that repel the strangelet, thus keeping it awy from the walls, and keeping the strangelet from absorbing it's container. Then just send it into outer space.

Really though, I wouldn't be all that worried

[Someone Else]

Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
So what do you think the chances are of the world ending because of that thing are?
.Gator says:
Really low
.Gator says:
If it were so high people would more actively try to stop it.
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
Good point.
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
But if it does happen.
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
I called it.
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
I died alone.
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
Wheeeeeeee.
.Gator says:
Either that, or the science involved is sooo complex that no one knows wtf they're doing so they just ignore it...
.Gator says:
But even then...
.Gator says:
People would probably try to figure it..
.Gator says:
I mean, have you actually seen the thing they're making? It's huge!
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
Yeah.
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
And what exactly is it SUPPOSED to do?
.Gator says:
I have no ****ing clue.
.Gator says:
Something with black holes and physics and ****.
Sheba's Wife || Will you anger me? Will you piss me off? Will you anger me? Human says:
Oh that's reassuring.

[Toasty]

It's supposed to find out how the universe was created. It'll acellerate two protons to almost the speed of light, and then smash them together.

The thing is, is that they could produce so much energy, that a black hole or strangelet could form. Thus producing some big-*** problems.

[Someone Else]

Toasty, on May 13 2008, 06:27 PM, said:

It's supposed to find out how the universe was created. It'll acellerate two protons to almost the speed of light, and then smash them together.

If the Big Bang theory is correct, wouldn't that make another universe, or am I insane?

[Toasty]

No, because the big bang involved two super-dense microscopic balls of matter. This is using protons. It's supposed to produce similar energy levels.....or something.

[Someone Else]

Yeah, this isn't my area of expertise at all.

[Eugine]

Just read the Wiki SoT posted WD

..it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson [a massive scalar elementary particle], the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics [a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles that make up all matter] and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory [any of several very similar unified field theories or models in physics that predicts that at extremely high energies, the electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear forces are fused into a single unified field.], 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.

[Sea of Time]

*sigh* And Toasty had to go make it a science topic....

[Toasty]

Without science, this topic wouldn't exist in the first place.

Think about it.

[Lightning Star]

With all the lack of spam and all the seriousness of this topic, I think it should be thrown into the off topic.

And where does it say that the world's gonna end in 18 hrs? Not that I think it doesn't, its just that I only skimmed those pages 'cause I'm lazy.

And if the world ends, well, there must be some reward in heaven for dying a virgin, right? Lawl. X3

[Ironsight]

Well, I guess I won't be doing my homework tonight. If the world's going to end, why would I want to spend my last hours doing school work?

[Nosferatu]

DarkSword, on May 13 2008, 09:03 PM, said:

Well, I guess I won't be doing my homework tonight. If the world's going to end, why would I want to spend my last hours doing school work?

Ah man, that's exactly what I thought.

WD pretty much said everything I was thinking, so I don't have many other things to say.

[Toasty]

I don't do my schoolwork anyway. :P

[TobiasMar]

Somehow, I doubt the world will end. (Yes, I read the article >_>)

I think it's simply speculation and overreacting.

[Split Infinity]

Hm...if this experiment is successful, and they are able to replicate the Big Bang, wouldn't that prove the theory correct and thus destroy religion?

[Toasty]

Not nessescarily. As I've said before, the only theory that really goes against religion is the theory of evolution.

[Split Infinity]

What if CERN proves that as well? :P

[Toasty]

CERN has nohing to do with the theory of evolution. Not even in the slightest.

Think more along the lines of "European Counsil for Nuclear Research" which in French, can be turned into the acronym "CERN."

[Split Infinity]

Yeah...I totally wasn't joking when I made that post.

[Lemontime]

5:45 left..

[Laharl]

there was a series on BBC a while a go called 'Endgame' or ''Doomsday' or something

it was basically 5 dramatizations of apocalyptic events

this was one of them.... X_X

[Lemontime]

3 hours 45 minutes remaining.

[Mallick]

Damn.

[Lemontime]

2 and a half hours left for planet earth.

[Split Infinity]

OH SHI--

[Lemontime]

Jack, I have something to say..

I.. I think I love you!

[Split Infinity]

You had my pants off at 'hello'.

[Lemontime]

I never said hello.. But OKAY!
We've got two hours and 20 minutes for sex, and then, if nothing happens, we will have really awkward lives..

[Eugine]

The Bible predicted it!

[Lemontime]

I didn't see anything about particle accelerators in the bible..

Then again, I haven't read it..

[Mallick]

tru

[Eugine]

It's in Revelations Chapter 6 verse 66!

[Mallick]

orly

[Lemontime]

That chapter doesn't exist >.>

[Eugine]

haha I lied!

[Lemontime]

YOU *******!

[Eugine]

I know ^__^

[Laharl]

condidering this a potentially apocalyptic event, none of the news channels give two ****s >_>;

[TheEnglishman]

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda06/Characters/Tatl.jpg
'Quick Link, play the Song of Time!'

[Mallick]

whar ze black whole?

[Laharl]

ha! I laugh at death!

[Split Infinity]

Hrm...

Wikipedia said:

The LHC is in the final stages of construction, and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of ~2K. The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later.

[Ravenblade]

This is about that particle accelerator thingy right?

Yeah they can cause black holes but...it would create one the size of an atom. and it would, probably, very slowly eat the world. But that could take millenia. Its not just going to kill us all in one shot.

Besides, the chances of enough energy needed being produced by a particle accelerator like this is zero.

But then i presume no one is actually worried about this..?

[Someone Else]

No black hole. =(

Unless SoT was completely wrong about the time/date.

[Ironsight]

Are we dead yet?

[Lemontime]

Maybe we've all been sucked through to an alternate universe and we just don't know it..

[Someone Else]

I woke up this morning expecting a black hole in my backyard.

I didn't get one.

[Golden Legacy]

datz coz i eated it lolz it wuz tasty and holesome

[Ironsight]

Getting better, GL. Keep trying.

[kate]

Um snookums, this is the common room, not trt, constructive posts please u.u

JKJKJKLOL

okay seriously...why couldn't the world have ended? I still have 6 more papers to write D:

[Golden Legacy]

DarkSword, on May 14 2008, 07:54 PM, said:

Getting better, GL. Keep trying.

kate, on May 14 2008, 08:03 PM, said:

Um snookums, this is the common room, not trt, constructive posts please u.u

JKJKJKLOL

... You both missed it?

Golden Legacy, on May 14 2008, 07:53 PM, said:

datz coz i eated it lolz it wuz tasty and holesome

:(

[Ironsight]

Oh no, I saw it.

[kate]

I refuse to respond to jokes that lame :(

...I lurfs you<3

[Someone Else]

At any rate GL, you got +5 exp points from that post, which lead to a level up! You are now a lvl 2 noob. You want to learn the move TROLL, but you already know four moves. Would you like to forget another move to learn TROLL?

[kate]

ooo! forget breathe!!! it's useless anyways :(

[Toasty]

I find POOP far more useful.

*forgets poop*

HOW I MINE FOR BATHROOM?

[kate]

ugh, you don't dumdum, you mine 4 fish. gawd.

lol what was this topic about in the first place?

[Someone Else]

Christopher Walken's biceps.

Or the end of the world... meh, they go hand in hand.

[Lightning Star]

Well I'm still here...

When was it that Nostradamus predicted the world would end? I thought it was May this year...maybe may 2015, I can't remember.

[Mallick]

2012 IIRC