Sep 25 2008
LHC: Impending Doom or Scientific Revelation?
Or…nothing significant?
We’ll find out on October 21. Hopefully. It seems to be the type of experiment that even if nothing substantial occurs, the scientists will keep rationalizing and spending money until something totally stupid happens, and they just categorize that as a “scientific accomplishment.” Or, worse, they call it a process of trial and error, which as we all know means: they failed.
To get into the science of it (for those of you don’t know and who for some reason care), the machine is sending hadrons (protons or neutrons) towards each other. Large ones. Supposedly this could recreate the conditions preceding the Big Bang and create a micro-universe. Which is cool. It could also prove the Standard Model of Physics, which would DISPROVE all creationists and religion in general. Of course, there’s also the chance that a massive black hole could swallow up the solar system. Or strangelets could be created. Strangelets are so far hypothetical objects. They are “strange” stars, made of “strange” quarks. I can’t pretend to understand the logistics of it. If you really care that much and somehow understand complex particle/subatomic physics, look it up on wikipedia.
My point is this: we could all die on October 21. Or we could disprove religion. Or…again, nothing could happen. If this is the case, the Super Large Hadron Collider will be created. Even the name sounds ridiculous, but hey…at least I have another follow-up article to write for Journalism.
the black holes wouldnt effect us if they were created theyd pass thru tha earth or some shit and take hella time before the ywould be signifcant or some shit