The big bang machine !

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The "big bang machine" is called the Large Hadron Collider.
The switch-on is due to take place at 0830BST. [TOMORROW]

When it turns on, two beams of protons will go around and around a huge ring..gaining energy with each lap.. When they reach enough energy.. they will collide with each other and for a split second.. there will be a shower of particles that may give us an idea what the Universe was like right after the Big Bang.
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But remember, colliding two particles is VERY different than colliding all the matter in the Universe.. The Large Hadron Collider is doing nothing new.. The same thing has been going on naturally for years and years in the form of cosmic rays with much higher energies than the LHC.. We have not turned into a black hole yet..so why would the LHC change that?
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We know two things for certain:
* It's unlikely that black holes will be created by the LHC
* If black holes ARE created, they will be quantum black holes that will exist for about a nano-nano-nano second before vapourizing oh i mean evaporating he he, and would not even be able to suck up a proton.
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For those conducting the mega-experiment 300 feet under the French-Swiss border, answers to the birth of the universe may be answered.. But for people like Prof Otto Rössler of the University of Tübingen, it will be apocalypse. Last week, Rössler and other naysayers of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment had hoped that the European Court of Human Rights would block it... They believe that the chances of a black hole — an intense gravitational field sucking in everything including light — being created by the experiment is very high.. Rössler says that the worst case scenario will have the Earth sucked inside out “within four years of a mini-black hole forming”. The Court.. however, dismissed the petition.
 
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GENEVA: Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) started up a the huge particle-smashing machine this morning at 830am aiming to re-enact the conditions of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

Experiments in the Large Hadron Collider, a 10 billion Swiss franc (5 billion pounds) accelerator built underneath the Swiss-French border, could unlock the remaining secrets of particle physics and answer questions about the universe and its origins.

"There are two emotions, the pleasure of completing a great task and the hope of great discoveries ahead of us," said CERN Director General Robert Aymar.

The giant accelerator's first task is to send a particle beam in one direction around its 27-km (17-mile) circumference, and then one in the other direction to test if the path is clear.

In the coming weeks beams will be sent in both directions simultaneously to create high-speed collisions.
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Doomsday writers have also fanned fears that the experiment could create anti-matter, or black holes, spurring unprecedented public interest in particle physics ahead of the machine's start-up. CERN has insisted that such concerns are unfounded and that the Large Hadron Collider is safe..
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So they say we may all implode 4 years from impact. The Mayan doomsday calendar ends on Dec 21st, 2012. Just over 4 years from now. I'll leave this one as a coin toss. If the first impact occurs on Dec 21st of this year, I'm gonna party like it's 1999. If not, I'll remain sensible. ;)

EDIT: Took too long to type and missed the next year posts....guess I don't get to party :(
 
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