The End Is Nye
We will be annihilated. The earth will be sucked up by a black hole created by humans. We can’t stop them. We will become ’strange matter.’ All our civilization, our collective memories, our religions and magic, our literature and arts, our ancestors and future generations, our years of evolution, all will shrink or expand to semi-nothingness.
In layman’s terms: a European accelerator called the Large Hardon Collider houses protons that will smash against each other this summer. The experiment is supposed to recreate energies and conditions generated only after the Big Bang. $8 billion dollars, 14 years, tens of scientists built this monster. If things go wrong, the circumstances mentioned in the previous paragraph will translate into reality. Only we won’t be around to recognize that. (Source)
Dude, that shit is not funny. It’s not philosophical, it’s not religious, it’s not existential, it’s masochistic but in a very scientific way. I don’t want to caricaturize it because I don’t find it remotely appealing, even though I am a grump, a brooder, a pessimist, and a talented morbid with some other twisted traits.
It is nobody’s right to conduct such experiments that could wipe out the whole of humanity and possibly the universe and any other worlds in it. I demand that governments do something about this! These mad European scientists are up to no good. I do not want to die yet, many more wars and plagues and famines to witness. At least there is some negotiable dignity in those, some solace that they might not be entirely our doing or that we did not know better. But to be erased by a bunch of European physicists who already know that there is a chance things could go wrong? That I do not tolerate.
It is not funny. It is not prophetic or progressive. It’s suicidal, and I don’t care if you like science. Do your experiments on the moon if you’re so smart. Meanwhile, I will go live in a cave now and pray the black hole will not eat me up.
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April 1st, 2008 at 1:55 am
I don’t think there’s any danger, micro black-holes evaporate as Hawking radiation. So there’s nothing to worry about.
But, I would leave this to Laila http://loolt.com she’s way more capable of explaining something like this since she’s a PhD cosmologist
April 1st, 2008 at 9:49 am
pray ? interesting concept …
too bad that u took the word of quak doctors and professors that don’t even understand the hell they are talking about, just read this :) <a href=http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/03/29/no-the-lhc-wont-destroy-the-earth/>http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/03/29/no-the-lhc-wont-destroy-the-earth/</a>
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 am
Qwaider those are famous last words (I don’t think there’s any danger) :)
There’s a reason why we can never detect intelligent life in the universe, I think it’s because by the time any civilisation gets advanced enough for long distance space travel, they destroy themselves either through war or science!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 am
Carl Sagan once said that humanity needs to be a two planet system. It’s just too great of a risk to put all your eggs in one basket.
There are way too many ways humanity can get wiped off the face of the universe, and god is not going to help us out on this one, we are really on our own. We need to figure out a way and do that fast.
The more we understand matter, the faster we can start constructing faster than light space travel, the faster we can leave our little hole in the wall and start the exploration.
Many have felt it would be the end if you sailed beyond the mideterranian. Others thought leaving the atmosphere is not possible, the “Sound barrier” …etc …etc we conquered all of that. We will do this one too :)
That’s why I differed the Answer to our resident cosmologist, she’s the most capable to give a very scientific, fact backed answer