The end of the World is Nigh?

[Gromit]

Mad Swiss Scientists are about to blow up the world (Wednesday afternoon).

Should we be worried?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?vi ew=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/05/scilhc1 05.xml

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/ article1630897.ece

[Davethedog]

No

[Iamblue]

Not at all.

[squarebear]

No it's just scaremongering. The situation they are recreating happens in the sky all the time as cosmic rays bombard the Earth's atmosphere.

[squarebear]

I like this quote in the Telegraph link:

Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a ****."

[daniela31]

Errr Gromit?
Is there a reason you put a quote from The Telegraph....and a quote from The Sun?

Do people have a choice of which one they want to read?
;-)

[squarebear]

The stars say t w @ t

[cassa333]

Are we dead yet?

[dustypuss]

why start it up

what dose it do

and what use to you or me is it ?

[China Doll]

Well I think a definitive answer would be nice as I could then make an informed decision as to whether to finish these reports today and whether I should take the time over the weekend to have end of the world sex or not.

[Gromit]

Make plans for end of the world sex anyway. Best be on the safe side.

<Avoid any 'did the Earth move for you' jokes>

[naomi24]

I'd plump for the second option, China. If you are going, at least you'll go out smiling. ;o)

[China Doll]

Excellent point. I'll put it on my to do list.

[naomi24]

Err .... at the top, eh - marked 'urgent'.

[dustypuss]

i don't suppose that i will have to by any condoms then

[coke71]

Damn and blast I'm at work next wednesday. suppose i'll pull a sickie then, then if it's true i'll not get found out :)

[dustypuss]

you may as well pull a sicky all week

your not going to get paid !!

I think I will get my self into a whisky induced coma and go to bed about midday . If I wake up with a very bad head then i never going to look at a ( GROMIT ) post again

[Gromit]

dustypuss

Phew, looks like we should be OK on Wednesday after all...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/05/lhc_to _leave_fabric_of_spacetime_continuum_unripped/

[coke71]

oh bug*er thought dusty's suggestion of a whisky coma sounded good (but wud have 2B a vodka coma for me) now I'm gonna have to find another excuse to do it now ;0

[dustypuss]

gromit . what a strange web site !!!!!!!!!!!!

[tigerlily11]

Square if its happening all the time then they can't go up there and study it? Why waste all that money building this contraption?
More to the point what will it achieve? The big bang happened I think even the average chav can work that one out. It happened a long time ago. Nothing can be changed by recreating it other than the possibility that we could all go bang again.
Oh well lets see what happens.