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Physicists Allay Fears of the End of the World
Spiegel ONLINE ^ | 8-06-08 | Charles Hawley

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cern; particleaccelerator; stringtheory; theendisnigh; weredoomed
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Dude, where's my planet?...
1 posted on 08/07/2008 7:56:02 PM PDT by 444Flyer
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Here’s the video the article mentions from Youtube:

“The CERN black hole”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM


2 posted on 08/07/2008 7:59:37 PM PDT by 444Flyer (Marriage=1 man+1 woman! Vote "YES" on Prop 8, amend the Calif. State Constitution this November.)
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To: 444Flyer
It, like, inside the event horizon.... oops.

/johnny

3 posted on 08/07/2008 7:59:48 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: 444Flyer

So , uh, are the OSU Buckeyes number one?


4 posted on 08/07/2008 8:00:19 PM PDT by Radl
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dangerous black holes

You know you can't say that anymore, its racist.,sarc.

5 posted on 08/07/2008 8:00:24 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: 444Flyer

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.


6 posted on 08/07/2008 8:00:43 PM PDT by TheZMan (Bitter backwoods east Texan Christian gun clinger with the AC at 72 degrees.)
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To: 444Flyer

The final segment from a BBC TV movie “End Day”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1vKisefsuI


7 posted on 08/07/2008 8:01:26 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: 444Flyer
Shine a light in a mirror and you're smashing subatomic particle waves at 2x the speed of light. Not a big deal.

Now if they actually break the straight line speed limit with anything of mass?????

8 posted on 08/07/2008 8:02:16 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I will stand with the Muslims ~B Hussein Obomber Verito Possumus~Verified Sleeper!)
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To: 444Flyer

I’m picturing a physicist saying, “Hold mein lager, und vatch this ...”


9 posted on 08/07/2008 8:02:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: TheZMan

Agreed. God laughs at man’s folly. I think this is going to be a big non-event..but it is great movie material.


10 posted on 08/07/2008 8:04:49 PM PDT by 444Flyer (Marriage=1 man+1 woman! Vote "YES" on Prop 8, amend the Calif. State Constitution this November.)
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To: 444Flyer

“Blowed up REAL good!”

11 posted on 08/07/2008 8:05:52 PM PDT by dighton
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I don’t care who you are … that’s funny! ROFLMAO! Thanks, I needed that. ;-)


12 posted on 08/07/2008 8:07:00 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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To: 444Flyer
The world will end, this I know
for Art Bell told me so.
13 posted on 08/07/2008 8:07:28 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
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To: 444Flyer

Ray warned us about this in Ghostbusters when he said not to cross the streams.


14 posted on 08/07/2008 8:07:52 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: 444Flyer

The moon missions provided physical evidence as to the age of the earth ... about 4,500,000,000 years old ... and still ticking.


15 posted on 08/07/2008 8:11:32 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: dighton

ROTFL!! Big Jim and Billy would know.


16 posted on 08/07/2008 8:12:14 PM PDT by 444Flyer (Marriage=1 man+1 woman! Vote "YES" on Prop 8, amend the Calif. State Constitution this November.)
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To: miliantnutcase

It depends on what the “consensus” is before I’ll believe it or not.


17 posted on 08/07/2008 8:14:21 PM PDT by rdax
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To: 444Flyer

I don’t know... sounds like the Obama campaign to me.

And no, that’s not a racist statement.


18 posted on 08/07/2008 8:14:41 PM PDT by Gordon Greene (www.fracturedrepublic.com)
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To: 444Flyer
This thing has already had one mishap where it lost one of the mirrors, otherwise this thing would be online now.
19 posted on 08/07/2008 8:15:14 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom)
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To: KarlInOhio

...but not until 12/21/12.


20 posted on 08/07/2008 8:15:35 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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