LHC

I am sure most of you have not heard of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that has been built by CERN. If that is true, then I highly suggest you check out it's wiki page. But basically it is a device that enables scientists to slam particles into each other at enormous velocities. The theory is that they will be able to re-create some of the conditions that existed shortly after the big bang and thereby providing a wealth of previously unknown science. Really interesting stuff if you care to read about it further.

Ok well so thats all wonderful and all but there seem to be a few folks out there who are certain that turning this thing on will in short, create a black hole that will destroy the earth in a matter of micro seconds. There is a website available here where you will be able to track whether or not the earth has been destroyed by the LHC. Be sure to hit refresh constantly.

I was also reminded recently of another possible alternative to the black hole destroying the earth theory, which I personally think is far more plausible. If you have never played the game Half Life, this might be a little bit hard to grasp for you. But in said game, some scientist perform a very similar experiment which opens up a portal to an alien world full of headcrabs and various other human feeding horriblesness. Now the game's protagonist, Gordon Freeman, begins his quest for survival with only a crowbar. This is why I am urging everyone to go to their local hardware store and pick up a crowbar, just to be on the safe side, before they start colliding these particles into each other at nearly the speed of light.

There is also one group of "scientists" who believe that once this thing does get turned on, we will begin to see the first time travelers from the future coming to visit us. This is based on the idea that one can only travel back in time to the time the time machine was created. So if you see anybody telling you they are from the future, don't just brush them off as a crazy person because they might have valuable information. Not that crazy people don't have valuable information... I'm just saying you might be more interested in, say, lottery numbers than why an ant farm is a perfect way to set up a home business.