Quote: zooo @ September 4 2008, 11:37 PM BSTOnly 5 days now!
Till we all DIE.
*hugs zooo*
Quote: Stan Doubt @ September 4 2008, 11:56 PM BSTit's also a way to filter out people that don't keep up with current events. An important factor in every one night stand.
Haha!
Well if it makes you feel any better the Sooryj-mega-deathray should be ready by Monday afternoon latest.
Here it's destroying my local kebab shop after they ran out of red cabage.
And here's Kebabylon afterwards.
Tenby will be first to be reaped.
Quote: ian_w @ September 4 2008, 10:27 PM BSTHmm, but I just don't buy it - purely because I have heard cases of the other two, but never the asteroid thing. To me that suggests a greater likelihood of the first two happening.
Well, you are more likely to be struck by lightning in America, but in the UK, you are more likely to be struck by an asteroid. I'm guessing it is because the UK is smaller.
It's OK I think they're going to fix it so only foriegners die.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ September 5 2008, 8:53 AM BSTIt's OK I think they're going to fix it so only foriegners die.
Yes, I heard that Frankie. Trouble is CERN is based in Geneva, so I'm guessing (to them) most of us are 'foreigners' here >_<
I think the irony of the neutral chocolate gobbling Swiss accidentally annihilating them selves is marvelous.
I'm going to write a sketch just in case they do.
Mmm it would have been better if they had built this thing in Yorkshire. We have plenty of unused old pits courtesy Mags. There's another skit in there somewhere.
If they did build in Yorkshire and it a black hole was made, at least they would be happy that Lancashire would be destroyed.
It obviously says a lot about the people from that part of the world. They dont mind that the world is going to end as long as they (Yorkshire) go first! Numpties
Quote: Ian Wolf @ September 5 2008, 9:18 AM BSTIf they did build in Yorkshire and it a black hole was made, at least they would be happy that Lancashire would be destroyed.
I thought it had been. We don't usually mention it.
Quote: Sofa_Matt @ September 5 2008, 9:20 AM BSTIt obviously says a lot about the people from that part of the world. They dont mind that the world is going to end as long as they (Yorkshire) go first! Numpties
There are only two types of people. Yorkshirefolk ..and numpties! 
From as much as I can understand about quantum physics, should a black hole/expansion particle event occur, it would split away into a parallel dimension and we would be none the wiser... I think?
I really hope it doesn't, as I'm pretty sure our disaster recovery site is less than 500 billion miles away!
<sound of one techie laughing in background over tumbleweed>
Dan
I see Ian Wolf's points with the stats. We're talking the 'potential' chance. Although incredibly rare an asteroid strike has more potential than lightning to cause large scale death. I think someone once worked out the chances of being killed by a falling fridge in Norwich. It probaby hasn't happened but the potential aways exists.
As to the experiment creating events to which we're none the wiser (calving black holes ino parallel universes), it strikes me as a pretty poorly designed experiment when it culminates in a lot of perplexed shrugging gestures at the end of it. However, it sounds a typically European ending.
I don't think it'll end with the end of the universe... yet. But what does it say about us as a species that we're prepared to play with things that might destroy not just the planet but the fabric of space-time and it seems of little importance?
I hope we never get off this planet as the rest of the universe doesn't deserve to have us inflicted on it.
Re: Matter and the 'missing' matter. The fact that everything carries mass unexplained by the actual amount of matter we can see. I read one analogy to describe the huge gulfs within an atom: if you remove the interactive forces, people could walk through walls without a single atom (electrons and nuclei) of the wall or the person colliding. Some particles (is it Hadrons, someone?) can pass through the planet without collision with anything solid. We are in a way insubstantial ghosts living in a ghostlike universe where consciousness seems incredibly important in deciding outcome.
I think also that they're looking for the hidden mass of the universe in the wrong place. The true mass is not contained within yet-to-be-discovered sub-atomic particles but more likely within the higher dimensions (at the last count there were eleven) that extend beyond and yet permeate our 3-D world. Although we feel its effects in this plane we are incapable of percieving or understanding those other dimensions. It's like inhabitants within an oil painting trying to explain and understand air pressure from outside rippling the canvass. They live in a 2D world so they're incapable of understanding a gust of wind that originates from the 3D world. They're incapable of fully comprehending the room the painting hangs in, let alone the nature of gas, and the physics of the third (and higher) dimensions. In a 2-D world they would experience gravity between objects within the painting but they couldn't explain the much more massive gravity that the Earth would exert on every object within the painting. There would be a hidden mass that they can't explain.
Personally in my cookie little belief system, I think they'll open something they can't shut. I hope not.
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Is my favourite thing ever.
I can't believe the chances of wiping out all life on earth is as low as 50 million.... statistically that means that switching the thing on is the equivalent of killing 120 people.
Nevertheless, I LOVE this machine.
Can't wait for the outcome of the experiment! Well...not the dieing part...but what they'll learn when the project succeeds.
I'm trying to be an optimist these days. 