CERN's Large Hadron Collider news...

[Sue]

Horizon BBC2 9:00pm Tuesday 1st May

Preparations for Large Hadron Collider experiment to find the Higgs Boson and investigate Big Bang! Due to be switched on  26/11/07.

"...chance of triggering a black hole powerful enough to devour the entire planet.....virtually zero"  Lucky our  November  meeting is on the 22nd then  

http://press.web.cern.ch/public/Content/Chapters/News/News-en.html

[Fay]

Just watched it Sue, I really enjoyed it, very interesting.

Fay

[Ian]

Being tested right now, full beam tests next month with collisions soon after. Where's Private Frazier when we need him. We're doooooomed, I tell ye...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

[Delphine]

Oh Hell!  I thought that they had already switched it on last year and that we had survived.  That's another thing for me to worry about

[Mike]

At least it will be a spectacular way to go. Who knows, the resultant black hole might suck us into an alternative reality where everyone is happy and no one has to work and there is zero light pollution !

[Mike]

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/8-28-08/bunker62.jpg

[Ian]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/05/scilhc105.xml

big thumbs up to Prof Brian Cox

[Mac]

I just love his quote

Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats,
said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat."

[Mac]

BBC4 Sat 19:30 Lost horizons. The Big Bang (
BBC4 sat 20:30 The big bang machine. (all about the LHC)

[Fay]

Get the valium out, Delphine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ian]

CERN are going to do a webcast so we can see the blackhole coming.

http://webcast.cern.ch/

[Delphine]

I will be watching the webcam so that I can warn family and friends to run if all goes wrong 

[Mike]

I hope they can run faster than light!

[Ian]

being black holes, you'd want to run faster than dark...

[Tony G]

Well, we are all still here then!

Anyone who isn't please sign below

Tony G