As a public service, I remind you that tomorrow, September 10, 2008, a bunch of nerds in Switzerland will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, attempting to recreate the origins of the universe by accelerating protons to 99.999999 per cent of the speed of light and then smashing them together.
The chances that their attempt to create the beginning will actually create the end are small, to be sure, but still.. might want to carry an umbrella.
Via Slog.
Or at least remember to carry your towel.
We can only hope this thing will take us all out. But probably best not to get our hopes up, Anthony.
Only science fearing Palin’s need fear CERN, which is where www was invented btw. http://www.cern.ch
I’m pretty sure we won’t actually know the negative effects of this for decades (even if it does create a bunch of mini-black holes that want to swallow us all). So, kiss my butt, public service.
Just for the record, the NYT says that they won’t start colliding things for a couple of weeks.
I don’t really know what that means, except that we can expect the end of the universe then, rather than tonight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09collide.html?ex=1378612800&en=79e04085f0e85f52&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
tk. FTW