The end of the world as we know it.
 

No, I'm not talking about REM.

France builds Doomsday Machine - The Misunderstood Universe: Your Guide to the Universe, your complete Science reference plus Science and Technology news,

I always knew the french would be the end of us all.

I just ask it be quick when the time comes.

apparently it will be 4.5-7 minutes

well yeah for the entire planet to evaporate but each individual death will probably be instantaneous. In the grand scheme of things, 4-7 minutes is quick considering the size of the world.

Just like the French to play Russian roulette with the universe.
We should have left them to the Germans when we had the chance.

That would have meant leaving the whole of Europe to the Germans as well. :ar_15s:

hahahaha this is awesome

every other article i've seen about the CERN project portrays it as this wonderful miracle machine that will once and for all bring peace to the world and properly define man and the universe and eradicate war and disease and we'll all get to live happily ever after forever.

quite frankly i'd rather die from a giant black hole eating the planet than pretty much any medical illness i can think of.

I'm guessing it would be much like a nuclear explosion, just boom and you're gone.

But I feel fine. =\

Wouldn't it be the opposite to an explosion?
If it goes wrong and they create a black hole under France...we'll all be sucked in and crushed to a pin prick.

Well yeah, but i'm guessing it'll be just as quick and painless.

Cheerful narrative to your guide to the end of the world

^ Sounds a bit like a Stephen Hawking sex change freak, but don't let it put you off.

Prepare to shit thyself.

Actually I believe not. Obviously I'm no expert on blackholes, but I watched a pbs thing on them, and apparently its theorized that the closer you get to a black hole, the more time slows down. Then right as you're about to enter, time stops all together, however people looking from the outside in would have seen it normally as if time hadn't slowed down. So really it would be a pretty horrific way for the world to go.

Thats really hard to comprehend, my guessing would have been that, since it takes 4 mins for the whole world to be consumed it was a pretty quick process. If you're right though that brief moment when you're looking upon it all would be amazing.

you mean that thing that happens when a person gets into a bad accident where everything seems like slow motion until the moment hits?

I always thought it was the other way round?
That outside observers would see the object passing into the black hole (past the event horizon) as if it was in slow motion.
:confused:

Edit: fixed that link btw.

I might be remembering wrong idk.^

Black hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

At least we have spaghettification to look forward to. :)

That doesn't sound too far off the idea of parallel universes, something splitting and being in 2 different places at the same time. Maybe our particles go somewhere and we come out the same in a different world?
I may be talking crap.

Funny you should say that.
Cheerful narrative to your guide to the end of the world
Listen to this, especially the bit toward the end referring to Revelations and the bible matrix.

A lot of the scientific-quark stuff went over me, but its interesting that it backs up the idea that the black hole could result in a new earth or heaven. It should be said that the Bible can be interpreted in so many ways, you could probably make it say anything you wanted it to, but they seemed to do a lot of searches with those key words and the same ideas kept cropping up.
Its brilliant that it implies that the french are the anti-christ in doing it, unless i interpreted it wrong :D

:rofl:

I love that oojay started this thread.

oojay...the prophet of doom.

4.30 mins to 7 mins?

Is that including or not including the French scientists going on strike or not first ?

And I wouldn't laugh too hard if I were you...

..."And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter."
Revelation 8:10-11

Wormwood is a plant.
It grows on the banks of rivers.
The Ukranian word for wormwood is...Chernobyl.

;)

too bad i'm atheist or else i might be scared ;)

Wormwood is also used to make Absinthe, that would be a cooool prophecy...