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The Wisconsin State Journal calmly and professionally reported on the Large Hadron Collider in yesterday's paper with its headline "WILL COLLIDER DESTROY EARTH?"
You could have read about it right here on Monona Doug way back in April (Gableman Wins - Earth About to Fall into Black Hole). I had fun toying with the idea that scientists might pull the ultimate, irreversible oops, but this is just a hobbyist's blog, not the so-called state paper of record.
Check back in August to see if the Earth got blackened.
(Blackhole story on MSNBC: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5736615)
Well, at least it'll be purty....
So, this is not a joke...you know that right?
ReplyDeleteI mean-it could happen...here is a serious lecture by a serious person and he talks about this possibility.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stephen_petranek_counts_down_to_armageddon.html
It's 'not a joke', 'it could happen'. But the people who know the most about it say that the concerns are nonsense.
ReplyDeleteTalk to me in August.
Here's a philospohical conundrum: would it be worse to destroy the entire Earth and all life on it or to only destroy a large part (say half) and leave the rest behind to deal with the devstation?
Not too long ago we worried whether the Manhattan project would create a 'chain reaction' that would cause havoc in our universe. Many reputable scientists admitted that this was too new to know what might happen at the instant the reaction occurred.
ReplyDeleteThe inertia of the war hysteria outweighed the wisdom of going slowly until more was known.
CO2 is suggesting similar concerns with climate change at the limits of imagination.
Dark matter, black holes vs. the anthropic principle...Where is Orson Welles to bring this all home to us on Fox News?mxnsz
Here is one for you-maybe we ahve already been consumed by a black hole and our living in an another period where strange things happen.
ReplyDeleteWe've "already been consumed by a black hole and our living in an another period where strange things happen"?
ReplyDeleteLiving in a black hole would cut down on the need for storage space.
I think they may be installing a few black holes along Midmoor Rd.
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