Marvelous piece of engineering ^^

tic tac tic tac...

http://www.lhc.ac.uk/latest-news.html
http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/Welcome.html

BTW, just so the people that think the LHC will destroy the world will know we have been listening, a new safety device was installed at the facility which should completely wipe away any fears you might have:

Push the button!

Indeed, the button is a wonderful success
...hopes...err...fears are all gone.
(Now with less lobotomy.)

Some of the images are quite tasty.

If by some infinitesimal chance the world still just happens to be destroyed on Wednesday, it's fine and dandy.
Wednesday is the perfect day of the week for it.

A mini black hole needs 15 years (verify?) to destroy the world. Of course after 15 years wednesdays will still exist.

No, mini blackholes ... the ones that will be created in or during the process are like all other mini blackholes that come into existence naturally. That means that they can not and will not destroy earth.. they exist for a too short period of time and are simply too small.

The only change of even coming close to the destruction of earth, would be if for some weird reason such a mini blackhole would not disappear almost straight away, but instead grow bigger and bigger.. and then at some point 'swallow' earth.

I don't know how long this then would take, however it definitely depends on the growth-rate of the blackhole.

The chance of this happening is in fact so close to zero that it probably just won't happen... just like all the other dozens of doomsday theories,

Cheers

Yeah I know they exist for too short, I was talking about a mini black hole that had enough energy to sustain. LHC can't reach this amount of energy so it's not something to worry about. Yet if a mini black hole from outer space with enough energy sucks it's way to earth's center, we could see it on the surface in 15 years. (Of course not taken in account the side effects from losing a planet's core ^^).

Wait!
We are swallowed by a black hole since they turned it on, but there´s no difference.

Believe me, I´m a black hole.

Apparently a 16 year old girl has committed suicide because she got so scared about all this and did not want to witness the possible end of the world... Their parents couldn't stop her from committing suicide.

Such a shame!! And shame on the fools that have spread fear. Things like this make me a little bit mad... regardless of whether or not the world is going to end today, tomorrow or after.