Posted on 08/07/2008 7:51:29 PM PDT by 444Flyer
The video looks a bit like a scene from a low-budget sci-fi horror film. A tiny hole slowly begins sucking in bits of the Earth in Switzerland with mountains, lakes and cities quickly falling into the growing gap. And it just keeps on growing--and growing. By the end of the 38 second movie, the entire planet has been swallowed up -- and all that's left is a shimmering ring in the inky blackness of outer space.
Absurd, perhaps. But a brief look around Internet blogs, and especially YouTube, makes it clear that there are a number of people out there who believe it is a very real possibility. The gigantic particle accelerator just now being completed outside Geneva at the European Organization for Nuclear Research--known as CERN--is set to be switched on soon. And some are concerned that, once the research facility begins bashing subatomic particles together at 99.999991 percent of the speed of light, dangerous black holes could be created and spread out of control.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Here’s the video the article mentions from Youtube:
“The CERN black hole”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM
/johnny
So , uh, are the OSU Buckeyes number one?
You know you can't say that anymore, its racist.,sarc.
It’s all fun and games till someone loses their planet.
In all seriousness though, the people who’re afraid of this thing need to read a handful of verses from the Bible and chill. All is well. Sit back and enjoy the whizbang scientific discoveries.
Now if they actually break the straight line speed limit with anything of mass?????
I’m picturing a physicist saying, “Hold mein lager, und vatch this ...”
Agreed. God laughs at man’s folly. I think this is going to be a big non-event..but it is great movie material.
Blowed up REAL good!
I dont care who you are thats funny! ROFLMAO! Thanks, I needed that. ;-)
Ray warned us about this in Ghostbusters when he said not to cross the streams.
The moon missions provided physical evidence as to the age of the earth ... about 4,500,000,000 years old ... and still ticking.
ROTFL!! Big Jim and Billy would know.
It depends on what the “consensus” is before I’ll believe it or not.
I don’t know... sounds like the Obama campaign to me.
And no, that’s not a racist statement.
...but not until 12/21/12.
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