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So I’ve never read The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, but the title seemed appropriate as we’re talking about the supposed end of the world tomorrow. For those of you who don’t know - that’s what dolphins (the smartest creatures in the world, supposedly) said before the earth’s destruction.

Probably while you’re still sleeping, the people at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider - the world’s largest particle accellerator (a 17 mile long circular tunnel deep underground the borders of Switzerland and France) will switch on their first experiment.  They hope to discover new insights into how the universe formed by analyzing particle collisions.

Here’s where the “end of the world” part kicks in - some people think it’ll basically create a small black hole and we’ll be sucked into it. Now, if we’re lucky, it’ll just create a “small” black hole that sucks in France. No seriously, they say that even if it does create small black holes, that’s not a big deal.  Here’s the quote from CNN: “The gravitational force is so weak that you’d have to wait many, many, many, many, many lifetimes of the universe before one of these things could [get] big enough to even get close to being a problem,” said Huth, professor of physics at Harvard University.

So, we may all die tomorrow during this test. Or it may be in the upcoming years as they try more and more intense experiments.  But if we all die from this thing tomorrow, it was nice knowing you all. Don’t forget to comment or subscribe to the RSS feed - it could be the last comment you write or RSS feed you subscribe to.

Take care - see you when we’re all compacted into a lot more compact mass than we are now. Maybe, just maybe, it’ll be like “Honey, I shrunk the Milky Way” and we’ll never notice that we shrunk because our surroundings will have shrunk too. Who knows.

Colin

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Enjoy!  I know I did!  Have a great day!

Colin