LHC

[Fear Of The Duck]

if it wasn't for that "OMG! the black hole's gonna it us" scare do you think jurnalists would even bother?

[Dajjal]

not really... they would rather talk about celebrities...

[Fear Of The Duck]

i mean.. would they bother about hadrons, higgs bosons and science at all?

[Demeisen]

if paris hilton did science, probably. but without a shock/amazement factor the mainstream media wouldnt bothermethinks.

i find it funny how some of the scientists are justifying their error in predicting the lhc would end the world. now, apparently, it will take four years to destroy the world. this reminds me of many previous times someone has said the world will end on so and so date. then once that date passes they pick a new date further in the future. this happened a few times with some predictions. lol at 'end is nigh' folk

[Rocky]

the funny thing is that there wasn't even a half decent chance that a black hole would be created, even if it were, the black hole would have been so minute that it would have dissapeared without affecting anything, media just blows everything out of proportion, i mean i love it and i think its a great scientific advancement, i mean imagine that , a 27km, circuit, and the protons move around it 11thousand times, close to the speed of light. but there was hardly a danger factor from the beginning

[KnowLedge]

meh i was reading about higgs bosons in wiki... i didnt understand it AT ALL...

some1 has to explain the whole dam thing and how it can make black holes.......

[Mordack]

They probably wouldn't, no. I'm glad they have, though, as it's encouraged a lot of people who wouldn't otherwise give a toss to read a little into physics.

I'm also amused at the people who were genuinely hysterical about this.. when it's all so harmless, really. Typical.

[semper]

They would bother...

It would certainly not be as big a thing as it has been, but they would run stories about it.

Something like this is important enough, despite the fact that in england at least the news was dominated about the destruction of my old pier....

[Fear Of The Duck]

yeah.. maybe they would... 25 words notes in those small "science" sections at the bottom of a page.

if i was ifrit or avenger i would suggest CERN guys sneakily started the scare themselves to gain publicity

[Iƒrit]

lol Corran
Ive been to busy to keep up with my current events, maybe I get back to it some day, sorry to disappoint

[Solus]

well there might be more than no effect.... at worst it will only be like a 5 gram black powder charge. IF it does anything at all, cos the singularity IF it is created will be so small and minute, that the amount of energy pulled into it will not match the rate at which the singularity gives off energy, thus it will 'evaporate'.

it is interesting to me too, just i think its damn funny ppl were all like "R U READY TO DIE ON WEDNESD..... oh wait..."

[Ishmayeck]

Either way, Ferra promised me an end of the world party with free alcohol and human sacrifices, so what the hell ;P

But yeah, if it paves the way to shiny new technology, go ahead and do it. Even if there was a high risk of blowing up the Earth... nothing of value would be lost, after all.


~+Ishmayeck+~

[szadek]

BHOPAL, India - A teenage girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatized by media reports that a "Big Bang" experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.

The 16-year old girl from the state of Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said.

Her father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programs.

"In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on September 10," Biharilal was quoted as saying.

"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he said.

For the past two days, many Indian news channels held discussions airing doomsday predictions over a huge particle-smashing machine buried under the Swiss-French border.

The machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, was switched on on Wednesday, at the start of what experts say is the largest scientific experiment in human history.

The machine smashes particles together to achieve, on a small-scale, re-enactments of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

Leading scientists and researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said the experiment was safe. They dismissed as "pure fiction" doomsday predictions that the experiment could create anti-matter, or black holes.

But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks associated with it spread rapidly through the media.

In east India, thousands of people rushed to temples to pray and fast while others savored their favorite foods in anticipation of the world's end.

"There were a thousand more devotees yesterday as well as today compared to (any) other normal day," Benudhara Sahu, a temple official in Orissa state, told Reuters.

Many women and children rushed to temples and observed fasts as they prayed for deliverance, officials and witnesses said.

Assurances by scientists and the media that nothing would happen counted for nothing for housewife Rukmini Moharana.

"I visited temple, prayed to god," Moharana said. "I am observing the fast for safety because god can only save us."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26641652/

Bloody hell. Is the media completely incapable of listening to scientists?

[Solus]

BHOPAL, India - A teenage girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatized by media reports that a "Big Bang" experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.

The 16-year old girl from the state of Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said.

Her father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programs.

"In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on September 10," Biharilal was quoted as saying.

"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he said.

For the past two days, many Indian news channels held discussions airing doomsday predictions over a huge particle-smashing machine buried under the Swiss-French border.

The machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, was switched on on Wednesday, at the start of what experts say is the largest scientific experiment in human history.

The machine smashes particles together to achieve, on a small-scale, re-enactments of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

Leading scientists and researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said the experiment was safe. They dismissed as "pure fiction" doomsday predictions that the experiment could create anti-matter, or black holes.

But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks associated with it spread rapidly through the media.

In east India, thousands of people rushed to temples to pray and fast while others savored their favorite foods in anticipation of the world's end.

"There were a thousand more devotees yesterday as well as today compared to (any) other normal day," Benudhara Sahu, a temple official in Orissa state, told Reuters.

Many women and children rushed to temples and observed fasts as they prayed for deliverance, officials and witnesses said.

Assurances by scientists and the media that nothing would happen counted for nothing for housewife Rukmini Moharana.

"I visited temple, prayed to god," Moharana said. "I am observing the fast for safety because god can only save us."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26641652/

Bloody hell. Is the media completely incapable of listening to scientists?

wow.... i hadnt heard of this....

[Fear Of The Duck]

yeah. that's sad

the other thing is they haven't colided anything yet, and everybody knew (i mean, ppl a bit interested) that wed was just a test run. the real experiments won't start untill a few weeks.

on a lighter note: new pick-up line: hey! since they're gonna colide some hadrons at CERN tomorrow and we might die.. so how about going to my place?