doomsday

Me: So. You really think its gonna bring about the end of the world?
Him: Possibly.
Me: That we’ll all be sucked into some Swiss-manufactured black hole?
Him: There’s always a chance.
Me: You’re serious?
Him: No.

The Euro is a bit of an amateur physicist/cosmologist (No. Not Cosmetologist, auntie). He’s the one who, some time back in ’98, put me on to a certain Professor Gates, whose work I find endlessly fascinating even though I have to read most everything he writes about a dozen times over just to get a small sense of what he’s saying. So it’s no huge surprise that we’ve been talking about the Large Hadron Collider for several years now. The atom smasher will be turned on next week in Geneva. And Andrew Marr will present it live on Radio 4.

The Times (UK) has a great article on it today. And there’s always Professor Brian Cox’s quote in The Telegraph last May…

The good news, according to a German biochemist who has filed a suit to prevent the LHC from being turned on…if black holes do eat the world from the inside out, it will take four years.

So we’ll have a little time to sort ourselves out.

(I’m joking. I don’t think the LHC will be sucking the universe into oblivion. Really. Mosquitoes people. Mosquitoes.)