two-s-day...

Just trying to get back up to speed here, and I found this...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4327161.stm

it's a little dry, so here's a couple of juicy parts...

The first of some 5,000 magnets that will bend particles at near light-speed around a huge tunnel under Switzerland and France has been lowered into place.

They're making this machine called the Large Hadron Collider, or- (LHC). What will this big bastard machine really do? Well, let's hear from the experts...

The LHC will recreate the searing-hot conditions that existed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

Scientists hope this will enable them to see new physics, and discover the sought-after Higgs boson, or "God particle", which explains why matter has mass.

Researchers may even find new dimensions and generate mini-black holes.


So I was just kinda' thinkin'...nobody knows why the big bang really happened, but everyone (in basically the scientific field) agrees that it was kind of the universal starting point for everything that exists. So I thought - what about in a crazy sci-fi way, we create a machine that will re-create the conditions of the big bang, and instead there's a small malfunction, and suddenly we really create another big-bang! Wouldn't that be ironic?

Oh, and for those of you who didn't check out the post on Friday Feb. 25th...(or who did and didn't read the whole link "ways to destroy the earth") One of the ways to destroy the earth is to generate a black hole, and place it in the center of the planet, and wait for the planet to be sucked into it. Creating a black hole in a lab sounds like a cool thing to do, but, is it really the smartest idea?

I'm no scientist, I'm just a blogger who happens to like this kind of shit. However, I'd like to know there's some guy/gal or board of directors telling these happy-go-lucky scientists,

"NO! - DO NOT MAKE A BLACK HOLE ON OUR PLANET!"

I've had bad days, but being sucked into a black hole made by E.U. scientists in Switzerland, would take the cake.

But if it really came to that, maybe Mindfuck's wizard could help us Fjordians out. Thank god one of us, at some point in time was thinking, and got themselves a wizard.

Brent?