Will the world end tomorrow?

Tue, Sep 9 01:30 AM

As physicists get set to recreate the Big Bang, German chemistry professor Otto Rossler
predicts that their experiment will actually create a mini black hole that will suck all life
and light into it and lead to the end of the world. On Wednesday, somewhere below the
French-Swiss border, scientists at CERN (a European organisation for nuclear research)
are getting ready to drive two beams of particles into each other at close to the speed of
light in a machine called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
This will recreate the Big Bang and answer questions about the origins of life, the
universe and everything. Black hole creation Though no one really knows what 'will'
happen, all sorts of theories of sudden annihilation abound.
CERN's strongest opponent Otto R and #246;ssler, a German chemistry professor, argues
that just as with the Big Bang, this experiment too will create a mini-black-hole, an
intense gravitational field that will keep sucking in matter until the entire world, and all
its light, is gone. To counter the bad press, a rap video on CERN is doing the rounds on
YouTube.
Presumably made by the young scientists of the organisation, the video explains
everything related to the project in a fun, literally off-beat way. The hugely popular video
reiterates a statement made by CERN Director General Robert Aymar: "The LHC will
enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us.
The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction." If
Thursday comes And in case you wake up Thursday morning and wonder why doomsday
didn't arrive, the Mayans might have an answer for you.
Hold on for 21-12-2012, which is when the Mayan Calendar comes to an end, because of
a presumably catastrophic change. One theory even ties in the R and #246;ssler black
hole theory with the end of the Mayan calendar -according to it, the black hole will suck
in everything on earth over four-and-a-half years, which is 21-12-2012.
Many websites are dedicated to the Mayan theory, including one called
Doomsdayguide.org where a countdown declares 1564 days to go.
If you're scared stiff, don't hesitate to check out Survive2012.com

Scared of Big Bang test, people in Orissa

turn to the gods
Wed, Sep 10 11:23 AM
Bhubaneswar, Sep 10 (IANS) Fearing that the scientific experiment to study the
formation of the universe might have a negative impact on the earth, people in Orissa are
flocking to places of religious worship to seek divine help.
Scientists conducting the experiment Wednesday in Geneva have ruled out any trouble
but the credulous have said the experiment might bring the end of the universe.
'Some television channels have shown that the experiment may affect the earth, and we
are afraid and are therefore turning to god,' Sanghamitra Biswal a housewife in
Bhubaneswar, told IANS.
Biswal, who lives in the Niladri Vihar area of the city, along with her husband and three
children, visited a Shiv temple Wednesday morning. She says she is also keeping a fast.
'It is only god who can prevent trouble and we are praying for our safety and for the
safety of the earth,' she said.
Biswal is not alone. According to reports reaching here people visited temples in different
part of the state early Wednesday.
Temples in many part of the state witnessed large crowds in the morning, eyewitnesses
said.
'Large number of devotees performed puja (prayers) Tuesday evening,' said Sudhanshu
Mishra, a priest based here.
'Whereever you go there is only one discussion and it is about the experiment,' Raghunath
Mohanty, a college teacher in Bhubaneswar, said.

'We have received large number of queries from people. They are asking us if there is any
threat to the earth,' said Subhendu Patnaik, director of the Pathani Samanta Planetarium.
'We are telling them it is like any other scientific experiment and nothing bad is going to
happen.'
The well-known Welsh physicist, Lyn Evans, dubbed Evans the Atom, will switch on a
giant particle accelerator designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang as a part of this
expensive experiment that has been in the preparation for the last 30 years.
Evans will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-long doughnut-shaped tunnel that
will smash sub-atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light.
Built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the collider lies
beneath the French-Swiss border, near the institution's headquarters in Geneva, at depths
ranging from 170 to 600 feet.
The aim of the 4.4 billion-pound (over $7.7 billion) experiment is to recreate the
conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang - the hypothesised birth
of the universe - and provide vital clues to the building blocks of life.