SCIENCE!

[eliyes]

In roughly 34 hours from the time I've begun typing this post, something will happen. There is a 1 in 5000 chance that this will result in the destruction of 80% of the galaxy or thereabouts, including, of course, our planet.

That's right, they're going to use the Large Hadron Collider, aka the LHC. It's a physicists dream come true: they're going to "smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other and so recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang."

So. In the unlikely (but more likely than the planet being struck by an extinction-event-level meteor, apparently) event that we are all destroyed, I just wanted to say that it's been fun. :3

Check out the countdown!

eta: *massive pout* They postponed it.

Comments

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

:O Why?

[anibunny.livejournal.com]

Because I totally need a I Survived the LHC Experiment icon.

Also. News has been really boring today. I sit in a newsroom. . .hearing boring news. So this is like "Wow! Something interesting to read and research." :3

Though I honestly haven't found any news saying it will happen in a couple days. It says it is going through testing still and it isn't until September or October when it goes through its first all-round test.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I gotcha. X3 Yeah, I can imagine slow or boring news days suck.

Sept or Oct are too far past "mid-2008" to be accurate -- maybe that's when they expect to release results?