Will the World Really End on Wednesday?
September 8, 2008 by Chris Skoyles ·
The Big Bang Machine
Europeans switch on the ‘Big Bang Machine’.
Scientists on the French/Swiss border are about to embark on a mammoth experiment which sceptics say could spell the end of the world.
The particle accelerator experiment, due to be launched on Wednesday, September 10th, is hoped to reveal amazing new secrets about the birth of our universe, allowing us to understand more about how we came to be by smashing particles into one another in what can almost be described as a re-enactment of the ‘Big Bang’.
However, those opposed to the test say there’s every chance that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), also informally known as ‘The Big Bang Machine’, the device at the centre of all this, could effectively bring about a rather unwelcome apocalypse.
A small-yet-vocal minority of pessimists worry that the experiment isn’t completely safe, and that the LHC could potentially spew out the odd micro black hole with the potential to swallow the earth.
But is this likely? Read more
