Will the world end on Wednesday(10/09/2008)?

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Be a bit of a pain if it did, wouldn't it? And the most frustrating thing is that we won't know for sure either way until the European laboratory for particle physics (Cern) in Geneva switches on its Large Hadron Collider the day after tomorrow.

If you think it's unlikely that we will all be sucked into a giant black hole that will swallow the world, as German chemistry professor Otto Rössler of the University of Tübingen posits, and so carry on with your life as normal, only to find out that it's true, you'll be a bit miffed, won't you?

If, on the other hand, you disagree with theoretical physicist Prof Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith of the UK Atomic Energy Agency, who argues that fears of possible global self-ingestion have been exaggerated, and decide to live the next two days as if they were your last, and then nothing whatsoever happens, you'd feel a bit of a fool too.

Rössler apparently thinks it "quite plausible" that the "mini black holes" the Cern atom-smasher creates "will survive and grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside". So convinced is he that he has lodged an EU court lawsuit alleging that the project violates the right to life guaranteed under the European Convention of Human Rights.

Prof Llewellyn Smith, however, has assured Radio 4's Today programme that the LHC - designed to help solve fundamental questions about the structure of matter and, hopefully, arrive at a "theory of everything" - is completely safe and will not be doing anything that has not happened "100,000 times over" in nature since the earth has existed. "The chances of us producing a black hole are minuscule," he said, "and even if we do, it can't swallow up the earth." So, folks, who do you believe?

Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/08/particlephysics.physics
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I just read this, and I just wanted ur opinion. It sounds rather sad, to me, a scientiest trying to make a name for him self!?

:w: :)
 
Well, if it does work without global destruction it might lead to new theories on galaxy travel and so on.
 
The Guardian posted this...?

I thought the story came from a random guy who was spreading his idea to the World.

Oh well, I don't really think it'll happen anyway.

There was also another article about this saying that 'new particles will be created'. Scientifically, I thought that was not possible.
 
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There was also another article about this saying that 'new particles will be created'. Scientifically, I thought that was not possible.
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They aren'tnew particles, just old ones that haven't been seen since the big bang.
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I thought that every Muslim would know (believe) that it can not end until after a great war and Second Coming of Hazrat Eesa ibn Marriam!
 
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I thought any half-educated Muslim would know (believe) that it can not end until after a great war and Second Coming of Hazrat Eesa ibn Marriam!
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U are correct :)

And indeed i do not expect any muslim here to believe this.
 
No, it'll end on December 12, 2012. Silly people. :rolleyes: nah im kidding thats just what the shia say.
Nobody can say when the world ends, besides we haven't gone through the minor or major signs of judgement day, and wednesday is in two days.
this is just another one of them things people like to do when their bored.
How is this from gaurdian?? wow. watch bbc get this, and cnn, and fox. hah.
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so two days left huh? its ok. im already married. im safe. i better put my seat belt on just in case. is the ride gonna be bumpy?

What a load of rubbish, in other words? :enough!:
 
I read quite an interesting article on the LHC recently, it listed any number of ways in which its activation could destroy the earth, from opening black holes to the creation of strange matter ('gray goo') which has an inert self-replication effect. All rather exciting.

But let's look on the bright side: it's Ramadan! So even if we all do die, the gates of hell are closed.
 
:salamext:

It can't end tomorrow because the ending of the world will be on a friday

Allaahu Aalim
 
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The experiment will probably fail like it did last time. They mentioned it on this steven hawkings documentary a few months ago (on channel 4) - apparently, they need bigger apparatus for the experiment to actually work.
 
^ yeh but this one spans miles, 300 feet underground with temperatures 100,000 times hotter then the centre of the sun.


they sound pretty serious lol


as for the end of the world, not till the signs occur :p
 
the world will end when Allah wills! nothing happened so far lol! I heard the news last night! for a minute I was in panic then I relaxed thinking... lets just wait and watch coz whatever happens happens with the will of Allah!

but personally I think... scientists are fooling people!!! trust me!!!
 
They turned on the machine today at 8:30 am but nothing happened
 

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