Is the world about to end, LHC.

Risus

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I love the fact that the internet provides a great place for people with little or no knowledge, but a whole lot of gullibility, to discuss how scared they are by relatively straightforward things.

Buildings falling down, microwave ovens, fluoride, etc.

Ignorance (in the true meaning of the word, ie, lack of knowledge) is stunningly fun to watch when it's in full flight.

CARRY ON, LADS.
Its unbeliveable the crap that is posted on the internet and even more unbelievable that people believe it, lol.
 

Blackleaf

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Is the world about to end,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7543089.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_the_Large_Hadron_Collider

And a few possibilities of what may happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole

Imo they shouldn't be messing around with such technology, building nukes and other far fetched devices isn't so bad. Something that may destroy the world if one thing goes wrong.... is.

There are billions of such collisions that occur naturally on Earth everyday, and they've never destroyed the planet.

Stephen Hawking, probably the greatest mind in the world today, has said there is less than 1% chance that a black hole could be created, and even if one were created it would disappear almost instantaneously.

Anyway, even though the machine is switched on, no collisions have occurred just yet.
 

TenPenny

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But some here claim that Stephen Hawking is full of )*)(&* anyway, so you have to discount what he says.

The only black hole we need to worry about is Oprah Winfrey.
 

Praxius

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But some here claim that Stephen Hawking is full of )*)(&* anyway, so you have to discount what he says.

The only black hole we need to worry about is Oprah Winfrey.

True, but on the other side of the argument, you can be the smartest person on the planet, but that doesn't mean you can't be wrong from time to time.

I'm not saying Stephen is wrong per say.... just that in general, not everybody get's everything right.