LHC Flips On Tomorrow

BTJunkie writes "The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds most expensive science experiment, is set to be turned on tomorrow. We've discussed this multiple times already. A small group of people believe our world will be sucked into extinction (some have even sent death threats). The majority of us, however, won't be losing any sleep tonight." Reader WillRobinson notes that CERN researchers declared the final synchronization test a success and says, "The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made this Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). The start up time will be between (9:00 to 18:00 Zurich Time) (2:00 to 10:00 CDT) with live webcasts provided at webcast.cern.ch."

Comments

Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet.

[AKAImBatman]

Correct. No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Always boom tomorrow.

Death threats

[Hatta]

Why would you send death threats to someone you think is going to destroy the world? If he was afraid of dying, he wouldn't be destroying the world, right?

Re:Death threats

[xstonedogx]

No kidding. We should be saving our death threats for where they matter: idle.slashdot.org.

It's going to be OK they said

[atari2600]

No possibility of a resonance cascade they said. Put the crystal thing into the spectrometer they said. The whole thing blew up my place of employment and I started Unforeseen Consequences with nothing but a crowbar for a while.

Moral: Keep your crowbars close and your guns closer and don't trust the scientists.

Re:It's going to be OK they said

[EvanED]

You say that as a joke, but it may be more likely than you think.

Re:End Of The World Party

[moderatorrater]

So, since I am neither a hooker nor LSD, I'll have to get my own drinks?

warping reality already

[Onymous Coward]

The weirdness has already begun if 9:00 to 18:00 Zurich Time is 2:00 to 10:00 CDT.

IMPENDING DOOM!!

[4D6963]

We're doomed!! Oh God, I can't die a virgin! Virgins may all go to heaven, but only to get screwed by Muslim terrorists!

the world is not going to end

[JeanBaptiste]

I owe far too much money for that to ever happen.

Explains the silence, they all did it before...

[4D6963]

Coming to think of it, maybe that's why it's so hard to detect alien civilisations similar to us in the universe. We only have the tiny window of time between when they discover radio transmission and until they make their LHC and wipe themselves out.

Remember what we were taught?

[No2Gates]

Back in the old days of the cold war, in the schools,for preparation of a nuclear bomb falling, we would get under our desks because they are obviously made of some kind of material that can withstand radiation and a giant percussion wave. I'll bet those desks can withstand the LHC black hole too. Only school children and teachers will be left.

Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet.

[Anonymous Coward]

...but what if watching what is going on - changes what happens?

Only if the LHC is propelling cats.

Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet.

[CorSci81]

The Large Hairball Collider?

Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet.

[chihowa]

If *that* were a problem we'd already be

Oh crap, it was a problem!

Regular status updates can be found here:

[garethw]

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet.

[7 digits]

The guy in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Yo610lG0 explains it all.

Yes, it is a STARGATE TO HELL ! Doom fans, rejoice ! Happy ! Happy !

Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet.

[Linker3000]

Big ba-da-boom