All I’ve been hearing lately is about how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cause the end of the world. And of course, this is a cause for multiple parties and spontaneous random acts of … randomness.
I’m sure everyone’s watched the famous CERN rap dedicated to the LHC, but in case you haven’t…
Although I have close to very little interest in this physics experiment (I did drop physics in yr12 after all), the rap actually kinda makes sense to layman’s like me. I think the experiment is a good example of how the thing that makes us humans so great can also be our downfall… We just have this insatiable need to know. Just see how far scientists will go in the name of science: billions of dollars in funding, death threats and possibly triggering Armageddon aka Doomsday.
Times like this I’m thankful I believe in reincarnation and karma: End of the world? No problem, those suckers will return as a speck of cosmic dust forced to exist eternally regretful of their actions. On the flip side, if they actually pull this off and re-writes science as we know it today…. I’m just glad I won’t have to go back to school to study it all over again!
About the Large Hadron Collider
The LHC is an international research project based at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, where scientists, engineers and support staff from 111 nations are combining state-of-the-art science and engineering in one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted.
The LHC is the latest and most powerful in a series of particle accelerators that, over the last 70 years, have allowed us to penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of matter and further and further back in time. The next steps in the journey will bring new knowledge about the beginning of our Universe and how it works, as the LHC recreates, on a microscale, conditions that existed billionths of a second after the birth of our Universe.
-[ Read more here ]-
So I guess the big question now is … What would you do if it was the end of the world??
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P.S. I’m not snobbing people, I just haven’t received my SIM! I called TPG again today and I actually got a customer service representative that helped! I’m not saying that ALL the other representatives didn’t help (just most of them) but they all seemed really brainwashed in that anything and everything had to go through a process before I could actually get my hands on the SIM.
This is the world we live in today, full of systems and procedures. We’ve all forgotten to use our brain and common sense >_<
