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will the world end in 29 days?

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Well if you wanted to get your mind off of the uselessness of our election process to some cheerier news then this blog is for you.  The Large Hadron Collider located near Geneva is scheduled to go on-line at the end of this month.

This is the largest particle accelerator ever built before.  It has the potential to unlock many mysteries of the universe such as finding new particles including the long-awaited Higgs boson responsible for making things weigh what they do, the possible source of gravity called dark matter, as well as probe the differences between matter and antimatter.  

There is also the small possibility that it will create such things as black holes which would be bad for the planet.

There have been lawsuits to try and stop it, but everyone including myself thinks this is going to be a great thing for scientific discovery.

However, it could also cause a time space loop that would have us relieving this election season over and over again for eternity.  Who knows we could already be in one of those loops now.

(The rest is pieces from other articles)

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Scientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, where particles will begin to circulate around its 17 mile circumference tunnel next week, will recreate energies not seen since the universe was very young, when particles smash together at near the speed of light.

Since 1994, when the collider was first mooted by the multi-national European nuclear research organisation (CERN), dogged doomsayers have claimed that there would be a small but real risk that an unstoppable cataclysm would take place.

Many of the emails received by Gillies cite a gloomy book - Our Final Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? - written by Lord Rees, astronomer royal and president of the Royal Society.

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Scientists are kind of upset that they weren't around when the Big Bang happened. Here we had an event that holds all of the secrets to reality, and we missed it.

The solution, science says, is to make it happen again. They assure us that they can stage a new Big Bang if they smash some protons together really, really hard. In fact, they can make a million of them per second, which is 999,999 more than God managed.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Well, first imagine an apocalyptic nuclear holocaust. Multiply that by about one hundred and twenty thousand billion, and then multiply that by around the neighborhood of infinity. That equals around one eighth of the magnitude of the Big Bang. Nevertheless, scientists are pretty sure they can contain their Big.

Strange matter is one of these things. It's a hypothetical material made up of quarks, which are one of the building blocks of reality, things so small that you can't even possibly imagine.

There are two hypotheses about strange matter. One is that the stuff will simply disappear in a fraction of a second after it appears. The other is that it will stabilize and convert every atom it comes in contact with into more strange matter. It could go either way, really.

There's a theory that there are entire stars out there in the universe that are made out of strange matter, just because a microscopic fragment of the stuff made contact once

The theory is that the LHC might open wormholes with its high-energy collisions that future generations can manipulate for time traveling purposes.