Hadron Collider - is it the End of the World?

Is the end of the world coming?

You bet it will! But only if you consider science to be a sort of new age witchcraft and your average scientist to be a ready to fly on the top of a broom sorcerer!

The truth of the matter is that the Large Hadron Collider of CERN is a piece of equipment meant to smash particles into each other at extreme velocities, to try to find the smallest piece of independent matter, the so called Higgs boson.

The Large Hadron Collider of CERN does it by accelerating already minuscule particles, either hydrogen atoms or, in some of the experiments ions of led, inside a gigantic circular tube by means of an electromagnetically charged network of accelerators. So you see, the CERN experiment is quite frankly harmless. Until it generates a black hole, and Large Hadron Collider causes the end of the world.

A black hole engulfing the Earth!

Some theorized that the particles will somehow create a minuscule black hole that, again through some sort of magic, will feed on the surroundings and somehow engulf the whole world, and why not, the whole universe for that matter! We're still waiting for that to happen but in the mean time let's not quit our jobs and spend our last money on booze and women!

The truth of the matter is that the most problematic thing that can happen is the Hadron of CERN itself collapsing under the pressure generated by the power of the magnets and the fact that its interior pressure is zero. And then spend another few billion dollars to fix this toy to let people go crazy again..

The LHC has been switched on again - What will happen?

Yes it is true, the doom and the end of the world are approaching again. In fact they're so close you can smell them. Are you ready to say goodbye to the world and say sorry to that childhood friend whose chocolate bar you've stolen. I mean come on you may not even see this coming if the LHC blows a gasket!

Many pray for another malfunctioning of the unit, though some have already grown tired of the charade and have turned the TV to see that football match. The end will surely wait until the game is over, the end of the world must surely wait to see what the score will be, isn't it?!

The fact is the LHC has been switched on and the Boson Higgs is well and truly under-way. Scientist are theorizing it could be used for time travel - some say the scientists at CERN are literally playing with fire now the LHC has been switched back on.

Keeping calm and wishing the scientists a good day for science.

Many things have been discovered by pure accident or through trial and error. In many cases, some of those experiments have produced products or technologies that had the power to terminate us, such as the atomic bomb, or many other dangerous substances and technologies.

So, you see, we are the ones who can harm ourselves the most, and not at all a highly organized and controlled experiment.

Thus we should be glad, that as a species we have the power to learn more about our universe and about the very matter that we're made of. Let's say good bye and a happy trip to Miss Black Hole and her acolytes, Mister Doom and little end of the world and mind our own business.

It's true that opinions have to circulate, we are free to speak our minds, but, at the end of the day mass hysteria will not lead us towards greener pastures. Large Hadron Collider causes the end of the world? Is the end of the world coming? No, no, no not yet - we hope!