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The LHC and the End of the World. Should we be ConCERNed?

by Chromosome23 9 months ago
Last updated 8 months ago.

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On the 10th of September, the Large Hadron Collider will be switched on at the CERN facility in Geneva. Streams of protons, accelerated to just below the speed of light, will be smashed into one another in a bid to recreate the conditions just after the big bang which resulted in the Universe. Detectors will record the creation of (hopefully) new particles which could revolutionise our understanding of the origin of the Universe.

But is this experiment without its dangers? Concern has already been raised in the USA and also in Europe, that we could be risking the very existence of the Earth and even the very Universe. Some scientists are saying that mini black holes could be created which would eventually eat up the entire planet, and others are concerned about the possible production of ‘strangelets’, a theoretical form of matter which would convert all other normal matter into more strangelets.

There is even a third theory that the collisions inside the CERN ring will create a wormhole which would allow time travellers from the future to visit us here in their past! That should give the anti-immigration clan something to chew on.

Maybe we are about to do something which was last done one day before the last Big Bang, and create another Universe? Will the combined cry of the entire Human race as it enters oblivion be, "Whoops, I told you not to touch that switch"?

Are you worried?

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  1. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Concerning times indeed it could be the biggest scientific breakthrough of all time or it could be the end of time.

    I think the most likely out come is that absolutely nothing will happen followed by the finding of the Higgs field or a forth dimension and way off in the lowest end of possibility is a dooms day scenario. But saying that I am still very concerned.

    Even if this is a complete success where will it lead? To understand the very essence of matter and be able to manipulate it is to have the very power of god.

  2. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Personally speaking I’m not worried at all, although it is interesting (and sobering) that the scientists do not rule out the mini black hole theory with a 100% certainty. As for the strangelet risk, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in New York was supposedly more likely to create such matter…quite obviously it didn’t as we are still here!

    Discovery of the Higgs Boson would be great, especially as the guy who proposed the theory is getting on a bit. It would be nice if his theory was confirmed in his lifetime.

    No, I’m not worried at all. I love this kind of stuff. I read quantum physics stuff for fun. Can’t pretend to understand the math, but the concepts are great. I just think it’s incredible that we as a species are able to do this stuff. If I was a particle physicist (and I wish I was!) I would be dancing around like an idiot right now!

  3. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The maths is easy at the moment it equals error.

    It sure is interesting.

  4. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The math ..so far..does not equal error, otherwise we wouldn’t be communicating via this old internet.

    The theory however is incomplete, and it’s experiments such as the LHC which may lead us towards the completion of the theory.

    And anyway, what’s so wrong with gaining the power of God? Or are we constructing another Tower of Babel?

  5. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Well the maths we have now don’t add up as was expected and that may well be through error. In fact this big bang stuff could be rubbish. Time may tell.

    How it is used is very concerning to me. The power to change matter could make the earth heaven but just as likely is Hell.

  6. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It might not all add up, but the fact is that it works. Quantum theory works!

    And the use…? I take a post Professor Pangloss view…at the end of the day, it will benefit us all.

  7. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    In theory but then in theory communism worked!

  8. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Anyhow, the CERN scientists are just going round in circles….think about it!

  9. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Bit late for thinking about it but do you mean the Collider?

  10. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Who do you think is funding this weap, scientific experiment?

  11. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    We are, Lazarus, just so some alleged scientists, using long words, as lawyers do, that they hope no one else will understand.

    So far, Einstein’s theory that mass increase towards infinity as its velocity approaches the speed of light has been borne out. It cannot reach the speed of light, where its mass would be infinite, because this would require an infinite accelerating force.

    It is not possible for us to travel through time, except forwards, as is shown by the laws of thermodynamics and a thing called Entropy.

  12. MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I believe they will create a wormhole, and get sucked through, landing in Roswell, 1947!

  13. theagitator Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    If nothing happens it will not matter. If a black hole appears & we all vanish, it will still not matter.

  14. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Time travel is explained well here and appears plausible http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/timetrav.htm, now for this we are going to need some sticky back plastic, two egg boxes and a black hole.

  15. Anotherworld

    Eebahgum Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The whole scenario reminds me of an Amiga computer game from 1991.

    ‘The protagonist of the game is Lester Knight Chaykin: a young, athletic, red haired physicist. Lester arrives at his high-tech underground laboratory during a thunderstorm, and continues to work on his experiment using a particle accelerator. Right before the particles reach their intended destination, lightning strikes the lab and interferes with the accelerator causing the unforeseen teleportation of Lester to a barren alien planet.’

  16. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Those who put forward these theories are confident that they will never be put the the test.

    The Laws of Thermodynamics can be tested and proved.

    Yes, you can travel through time, but only forwards. I believe aging has been measured in astronauts who have travelled at high velocities and are a minute or two older than they would have been had they stayed on Earth.

  17. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Wouldn’t they be younger?

  18. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Yes Laz,and let’s not forget the Nobel Prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi….I’ll get me coat.

  19. YourMailWill Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Colombo and TheBreaker, I too thought that travelling at velocity would slow down the aging process, not accelerate it.

    I don’t see how they could reliably measure the astronaut’s aging process but I believe an experiment was conducted with two atomic clocks (supposedly accurate to within one second in a million years) the clocks were started simultaneously, and then one was flown around the world at supersonic speeds while the other remained grounded. The well-travelled clock was shown to be several microseconds in advance of it’s stationary counterpart.

    Eebahgum, I remember that game. It was called Another World and I played it incessantly! That opening animation seemed like the coolest thing in the world at the time. I heard of plans to make it into a film but perhaps that was just one of those computer game fan rumours that wasn’t based on any fact.

    I still have an Amiga 600 in a box somewhere so I might break it out and play it again, along with Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 3 and Pinball Dreams... happy days.

  20. MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Dan Brown bases part of his book "Angels and Demons" at the CERN lab. Ron Howard and Tom Hanks were there earlier this year filming.

    At least if the world ends we still have a filmed record of the lab…........oh!

  21. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Time travel is theoretically possible, unfortunately it requires more energy than the universe contains.

    And light speed is not impossible, it’s just not practical. The speed of light is a barrier that cannot be crossed, but that does not mean that a speed beyond it is impossible. It’s just that if you are going faster than light, then you cannot slow down…you cannot cross the speed of light barrier.

  22. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    If you travelled faster than the speed of light, at some point you could stop, look back and see yourself coming.

  23. theagitator Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Why would you want to do that?

  24. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    You might not have a mirror.

  25. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    But if you are travelling faster than light, you cannot stop. Stopping would involve crossing the speed of light barrier. You could slow down or accelerate, but you could never come to an absolute halt. Therefore, you could never see yourself coming, the light could not reach you.

  26. medsec Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    You lot are giving me a headache. It’s fascinating stuff though. One thing’s for sure, we won’t have to wait much longer to find out what happens….

  27. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    By the time most of you read this, the LHC will have been switched on, and streams of protons will be colliding with one another at near lightspeed. And by that time, if we were all going to be converted into strange matter by a rogue strangelet, then we probably would have been. In two or three months time, we should know if the Earth is being eaten by a black hole…sweet dreams everyone!

  28. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    That is if black holes exist.

  29. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It’s pretty much given that the bigger ones do. In other words the result of a collapsed star. I think that the gravitational lensing due to such an object has already been photographed. But the minis? Still conjecture as far as I know.

  30. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There’s a fair chance it won’t work, first time.

    See: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7604293.stm.

  31. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I believe they haven’t attempted the bang yet which is a bit annoying it isn’t due to be up to full speed and universe creating till next year.

  32. HarryDownes Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Has anyone noticed if Switzerland has disappeared yet? – I can’t imagine a world without Toblerone

  33. MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Or cuckoo clocks, Swiss Army Knives, watches, and Swiss Cheese! The structure is also partially under France…..

  34. MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It’s good to know that the scientists playing God have a sense of humour, this is from BBC News,

    "Mr Myers has experience of the latter problem. While working on the LHC’s predecessor, a machine called the Large-Electron Positron Collider, engineers found two beer bottles wedged into the beam pipe – a deliberate, one-off act of sabotage.

    The culprits – who were drinking a particular brand that advertising once claimed would "refresh the parts other beers cannot reach" – were never found."

  35. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Can’t all be bad, then.

  36. HarryDownes Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Alpine Horns will become collectable items and the art of Yodelling will be lost forever-Hurrah!!!

  37. theagitator Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Nice one, Harry.

  38. medsec Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I just read that on the BBC website as well, Mike. It seems they haven’t actually collided the beams yet, so our fate is still yet to be determined!

  39. HarryDownes Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    My wife said tonight,"I don’t know what all the fuss is about,it will take 2 to 3 years for the thing to work!" This time schedule seems to fall in line with the predictions made by some people who have forecasted the end of the world in 2012.It is comforting to realise that this not the time to panic.

  40. Willow Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Harry… Would that be early 2012 or late 2012. Just thought I would ask incase I booked a holiday. Don’t want to loose my deposit.

  41. smky57 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I have also heard about predictions made for 2012, but its not the end of the world, but massive changes happening, what they are, I have no idea.

  42. Willow Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Good evening smky57 don’t hear from you very often.

  43. HarryDownes Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Willow- I don’t want to sound all gloom and doom,but if I was you I would go on holiday tha’noo(Scottish). Barmston waits for you!

  44. smky57 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    good evening willow, nice to see you again, been really busy, had father in law in hospital 3 times in the last month, but we now have him on the mend.

  45. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    2012 – isn’t that when the next Olympics are due?

  46. HarryDownes Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Has anybody gave thought that the LHC is not what they say it is?. Could it be the most awesome weapon known to man. That it was built by mad scientists who intend to take over the world.

    By holding the world to ransom,they could demand to the world’s banks to transfer all their resources to their bank in Switzerland. As we know the Swiss are very good at looking after other peoples money.

    Also, has anybody noticed the date?-10/09/08.

    Could this be a countdown code?

    This could be a job for Mr. Bond

  47. black Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    the quantum (physics) of solace….

  48. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    2012? The last time I was told of the end of the world it was 08/08/08 at 8. That was the Olympics that have just past’s start time. Is this the theme for the end of the world?

    I also believe the Russia Georgia stuff kicked off-ish.

  49. MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The Mayan Calender suggests 2012 as the end of days!

    Nostradamus made a prediction regarding a cataclysmic event in France in the 2000’s, but his dates are rarely accurate, and his prophecies are open to interpretation.

    The Bible Code, which was released before the Da-Vinci Code, predicted that a large spaceship would be found under the plains in Iraq, and this would start the end of days! It never happened!

  50. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The predictions of Nostradamus are about as reliable as those of Mother Shipton. Horse racing tipsters have a better record.

  51. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The speed of light can, and has been measured. It is not a constant. It velocity varies, depending on the substance through which it is passing. Anyone who did O level physics (at least, in the 1950’s) will have done refraction experiments, in which a beam of light reaching a glass block at an angle, is deflected due to the change of velocity ass it enters the glass block. Lenses depend upon this.

  52. Dark_side_of_the_moon

    YourMailWill Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ...like so

  53. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I’ve still got that on vinyl somewhere.

  54. Wywh

    YourMailWill Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I’ve got a really battered copy from a charity shop, but my new favourite record is a picture disc of Wish You Were Here that I got recently to treat myself. It’s an American reissue from the 80’s or 90’s and therefore not a particularly rare or collectable item, but it’s so pretty, I just had to have it!

    My limited knowledge (wikipedia, BBC website) on the particle collider is that yesterday’s experiment was the first in a series of operational tests and that the main event will take place sometime in October. (So if anyone is seriously worried that the world will end, you have about a month to do all those things you want to do before you die..)

  55. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I got mine about three days after it was first released (pretty much gives my age away!)via mail order from the fledgling Virgin empire. Wish I still had the poster that came with it…might be worth a bit if I still had that.

    I was reading last night that when it is fully operational, the stream of protons in the LHC will do the round trip of 27 miles 11,0000 times per second.

    Wonder what DSOTM would sound like at that speed?

  56. YourMailWill Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The real question is, could you get your video player to wind fast enough to keep The Wizard of Oz in sync with it…

  57. YourMailWill Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I have now started a music lovers / record collectors group so we don’t need to hijack this thread any more :)

    http://www.thisisyourmail.co.uk/posts/all_yours/group/194-rpm

    all welcome!

  58. YourMailWill Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The speed of light through a vacuum is a constant.

  59. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There is evidence to show that the speed of light, even through vacuum, is not actually a constant. Can’t find the article right now, but when I do, I’ll let you know.

  60. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    C23 you owe me! How about a slice of toast to make us even?

  61. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    How about a pen? Maybe donate it to the KC?

  62. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It would make a great talking point!

  63. mussy1976 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    i would love to know what grades u guys got, cause i don’t think you quite understood the basics. light IS a constant(light travels approximately 300000kmh in the vacuum of space from its source in all dirctions) and has been measured for hundreds of years(i think the first was astronomer ole romer), basic astronomy and simple mathematics and u can do it yourself(well maybe not)! And when it comes to mini blackholes everyone knows that all blackholes evaporate over time(hawkin radiation), so a mini blackhole would evaporate in a millisecond so quick they wouldnt even detect it. When it comes to quantum mechanics being a complete theory like general relativity is, well it isnt, a long way yet before that assumption can be proved right. after the so called higgs particle they need to find the gravitron, oh and something called symmetry. NO part of general relativity makes such bold assumtions for it to work and no where near as elegant. i won’t get started on time travel and wormholes i’ll just leave u to ponder a bit.

  64. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Wish I’d thought of saying that! :-)

  65. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    To Mussy and Taz what grades did you both get?

  66. medsec Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Think I’ll go listen to Pink Floyd….

  67. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I don’t mind debating with you. I’ve got more letters after my name than I have in it, but I don’t let it bother me.

  68. black Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    medsec.. pink floyd… ace! top band

  69. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Glad to see you back from your summer break Taz. Do anything interesting at home?

    Who thinks Taz is arguing with themself? Not much of a physics fan, but I know English syntax and structure. Mussy, give us a riposte to Taz’s rapier!

    Doesn’t light bend?

  70. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Taz…in your thesis, did you refer to Hawkins? About pirates was it? Or are you referring to Hawking?

  71. mussy1976 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    You make me laugh taz "in order to beat the system, one must play the system", i gotta remember that one. lets get back to subject at hand is c the speed of light in a vacuum, constant? according to a conference in 1983 a metre was defined as ‘the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second’. This has become our standard model of measurement,so using c as a conversion between units of metres and seconds makes it a fundamental feature of geometry and mathematics (basic everyday life). so not only does the speed of light need to be constant, it doesn’t make sense to say that it varies. i could go on, and on and, on about different ways to explain how light is constant, but im not gonna sit here and explain all intrigate details of light, as a physics graduate u should have grasp of these concepts. And u should know of the Michelson-Morley experiment (an experiment measuring the speed of light in different directions trying to find discrepencies and failed)Which has been repeated many times to great accuarcy. hey taz you are correct about something, my english is useless. the question is do i care? simply no, i ain’t english.

  72. mussy1976 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    when it comes to everything else u said, like your conclusion about light they are deeply misguided! e=mc2 isnt e-mc2 joker u do know thats only part of the equation

  73. mussy1976 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Just one more thing before i forget Speed is a coordinate-dependant quantity and velocity is a Vector-dependant quantity (speed with dierction)! that will do or now

  74. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    How has this post managed to get 5000 views in less than a week? Colombo, have you been travelling back in time and fiddled with the space-time continuum?

  75. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I make a practise of never attempting the impossible.

  76. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Hull’s reputation for mindless, jobless layabouts will be coming under attack if this continues.

  77. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There’s another 400-odd, today. Who are they all?

  78. MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I reckon it’s the entire workforce at CERN! There are millions of them working on this device!

  79. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    There’s another couple of hundred clocked on. C23: Have you found some way of rigging the rating?

  80. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Who are the invisible users?

  81. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    So what have they found this week, anything new or are they just happy to have it running?

  82. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I think Chromosome23 has hi-jacked it and is using it to increase the viewing count. Well above 6000 now. :-)

  83. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Almost up to 7000 views now. There was a report last week that the CERN computers had been hacked. Is this hacking and the number of views that this thread has had related? No, I just think it’s an interesting topic.

    Webcams and more info….

    http://www.lhc.ac.uk/web-cams.html

  84. Akhenaten Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    LHC opens a new frontier; this is what humans have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years, and defines our unique nature.

    Among other things, we should learn how the Universe behaved less than 1 millionth of a second after the "Big Bang", whether the theory of cosmological inflation is verifiable, and also gain evidence for the existence of several other dimensions , and the Superstring theory.

    Together with continuing advances in observational astronomy and cosmology, we should come closer to an understanding of the origins, fate, and future of our Universe, and, by extension, ourselves.

    Historically such researches and explorations have always led to new discoveries,insights, and eventually, down the road, to new applications and benefits.

    The day we stop exploring the frontiers of space, matter, and time is the day we take the first steps on the long road back to a mindless, primaeval Ocean.

    I would be concerned if we ended this quest and huddled together in the metaphorical Big Brother house instead!

  85. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Over 8000 views and going strong!

  86. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    This is beginning to get embarassing now! I just thought it was an interesting subject.

  87. MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Whoops! Seem’s the Hadron Collider will be out of action for months! It appears that severeal of the magnets heated up to 100 degrees and liquid Helium was released into the tunnel! Local fire fighters turned up and everything was soon under control but it could be down for months!

    That really inspires confidence!

  88. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    They just get a few more sacks of money and yay it’ll be sorted.

  89. Akhenaten Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I am not sure I put much trust in Mayan predictions of catastrophe in 2012 – although Mr Ahmadinejad may ride to their rescue! He has, after all, his own prophecies ( the imminent Resurrection , from a well somewhere in Iran) of the 12th Imam) to spur him on.

    Yikin Can Gaw’ill became Chief of the Mayan City State of Tikal in 753 AD and promptly instituted mass human sacrifice (by means of seriously botched open heart surgery, without any intervention by the GMC) on the top of a magnificent White Pyramid ( as wrongly ascribed to the Aztecs in Mel Gibson’s "Apocalypto"). This was actually an interesting movie despite the elision of Maya and Aztec.

    This bloodletting was done in order to save the world from dramatic climate change ie to keep the gods sweet, and ensure rainfall.

    These rituals were duly "rewarded" by a genocidal period of drought which took perhaps ten million lives. The gods, clearly, were not impressed!

    Ahuitzotl, Emperor of the Aztecs, likewise got it wrong , in like manner – but the "reward" was the Conquistadores, mistaken by his son Moctezuma for the returning god-man, Queztlcoatl.

    The moral; put not your truat in prophets, and do not presume to placate Nature by human sacrifice.

    Ingenuity and Chutzpah are just as likely to work, and follow the grain of human nature at its best, not its worst.

    One hopes that those Greens who call for major ( human) sacrifices to "Save the Planet" will take the hint- but I doubt it.

  90. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Za zing went kapuut, no!

  91. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Postings will soon reach 10, 000. Does the counter go that high, Will?

  92. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    If this post were to receive 2,147,483,648 hits Colombo, then indeed, the site would melt before your eyes, and little google-spiders would go scrambling for cover.

  93. Kal-El Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Five turn offs, i wish they would comment to help the statistics, I would expect C23’s enemies we know who they are and full on religious people are the people behind it.

  94. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I have no enemies. Everyone loves me, it’s just that some of them don’t know it yet.

  95. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Most posts, lately, that appear to be popular get a turn off vote as soon as soon as a good stuff vote appears, without a comment being made. I suspect it’s somebody with multiple aliases.

  96. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Strange, the vote increased by 6 with my just posting a comment. You’ve certainly cracked this one C23. :-)

  97. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I think it’s likely that CERN has already produced a ripple in the space-time continuum. Every time you view the thread, a Colombo in at least five other universes does the same.

  98. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I hadn’t thought of that. I wonder if it works with Euro Lottery tickets?

  99. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/24/lhc_downed_until_after_xmas/

    It’s broken!!! Possibly the greatest experiment ever, and they’ve broken it.

  100. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Perhaps it was designed to break. The big bang seems to imply something had exploded, and so…

  101. AR-Tony Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    When they finally identify all that Dark Matter it will be the left over residue of previous failures. I predict it will be non other than copious amounts of black coffee and WD40.

  102. Lazarus Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Aren’t they the ingredients for toblerone?

  103. Chromosome23 Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/24/scispace124.xml

    This looks interesting.

    "Distant clusters of galaxies are all shifting inexorably towards the same spot in the sky, beyond the boundary of what we can see, a baffling discovery by Nasa scientists that seems to challenge our understanding of the Big Bang."

    Presumably this dark matter Toblerone lurks at the edge of the visible universe. Oooer missus!

  104. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Reading the entire article, shows that none of the scientists knows, for certain, what they are talking about.

  105. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    C23: Less than 100 to go to 10,000!. :-0

  106. Colombo Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    C23: Less than 70 to 10,000!

  107. ArtH Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Now some authorities claim that the outcome of the experiments is affected by the thoughts of the operators. This is based on evidence that we are all spirits of light inhabiting a physical body and that we each have our own unique energy field (aura) surrounding the physical. as a scientis and a spiritualist I know this to be true. We are all much greater than we care to accept. And as someone else has said when we can manipulate matter we shall be God. Stories about Jesus feeding the 5000 are true, other highly eveolved sould have done the same. We are all inherently capable of doing that just hat we have not evolved sufficiently and are too engrossed in material concerns to think of our true nature. Divine beings.

    That’s given you summat to think about.

  108. Chromosome23 Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Evidence that we are all ‘spirits of light’...?

  109. ArthurLager Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ...or waves of potentiality?

  110. Kal-El Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I can see your soul!!! Oh no wait i have the wrong glasses on!

  111. Colombo Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Let’s see if this post pushes the total to 10,000.

  112. Chromosome23 Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Yeah, your post was the 10,000th view Colombo!

  113. Colombo Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Wow!

  114. Eloise Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ‘Curdled egg and liquid nitrogen on LHC launch menu’

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3239367/Curdled-egg-and-liquid-nitrogen-on-menu-as-scientists-celebrate-launch-of-broken-Large-Hadron-Collider.html

  115. Colombo Submitted 8 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    No doubt served with lots of taxpayers’ money. It’s put me off going to Michelin starred restaurants.

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