12 o'clock tomorrow....are we all ready for

[Ice.Maiden]

the Big Bang? Do you think the experiment'll have any effect on the weather, etc?

[Buenchico]

For anyone who actually wants the 'scientific stuff', this might help:
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/R eleases2008/PR06.08E.html

Even CERN are being rather vague about the actual start up time, giving it as between 0900 and 1000 CET (= 0800 to 0900 BST):
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/popup?name=CERNB ulletin&type=breaking_news&record=1124329&ln=e n

Now I wasn't going to open that last can of lager but, if we're not going to be here tomorrow anyway, what the heck? :-)

Chris,

[Ice.Maiden]

Lol - enjoy it Chris!

[Ice.Maiden]

No - nor the ants.

[Skreecheeboy]

It will actually, it's not a nuclear bomb it's the destruction of the entire universe! We are all going to be sucked into a black hole ffs! We need to Inclandestine Army of the Clowns to get us out of this bloody mess!

[Kidd72]

... oh dear now im scared...

so this thing could suck time and space and our our own universe into a parallel dimension?

[Skreecheeboy]

Or create a black hole which would engulf our solar system in seconds. You don't get mini black holes, a miniblack hole will just grow and grow but stay extremely small, these people call themselves scientists but they are nothing but short sighted idiots hell bent on making a name for themselves. I can't believe the courts didn't order them not to do it, they should be tried under the terrorism act for desire to wipe us all out, stupidity is not an excuse for shaking a child to death so why should it be an excuse for trying to blow us all up?

[Ice.Maiden]

In theory, yes, but the black hole or holes which'll be created, are (hopefully) going to be so minute that no immediate damage should occur....... note *immediate.
I think the idea's mental.

[Skreecheeboy]

A black hole sucks mass into it. Surely you'd need to be an idiot to think playing with them isn't going to do any harm! What I hate about the whole idea is that we are powerless to do anything about it!