After a 2 year hiatus, the LHC has been started up again. Apparently the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle wasn't enough, as they now want to observe mini black-holes to prove the theory of other dimensions.
There's some horrible news though. Over the course of those two years they upgraded the total power protons will collide at from 7.3 Tev to 13 Tev. Why is this bad you may ask? The theoretical minimal energy of formation of a ‘bag of strangelets’ and ‘micro-black holes’ is 10 Tev, so 13 Tev clearly goes over that threshold.
This could potentially result in a mini black-hole big enough to sustain itself, or the formation of negatively charged strange matter which will suck in positively charged atoms. This is a terrifying prospect which physicists Frank Wilczek and Stephen Hawking have laughed off, "I never was so confident to make a prediction as when I was called to seat on a panel about the possibility of an accelerator turning on and ending the world; predicting that it won’t is very safe because if your prediction is wrong [shrugging his shoulders], ha, ha, ha, ha."
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The experiment will go ahead on Wednesday the 1st of April, as noted in the IGN video. The LHC resides in Sweden, so if it happens on Sweden between the time of 6am and 8pm it will be 8am to 10pm GMT Time (GMT is +2:00) on the 1st of April. The catastrophic end with the black-hole sucking in life and this planet will be between that time, or if we're lucky, it will be a slower period possibly lasting until December this year where the planet slowly gets smaller and smaller until it is a 15km in diameter, lifeless rock. Many earthquakes and disasters will kill off people as it gets progressively worse.
Still skeptical? Consider the Fermi paradox that theorises the very reason we haven't made contact with alien life, is that when alien life reaches the point where it's advanced enough to communicate with other life forms it has likely killed itself off by some experiment to satisfy their God complex and growing egos.
I urge you all to make the most of the time you possibly have left. This isn't a joke and I'm not trying to stir fear, but I'm very concerned with the recent developments regarding the CERN. I hope I'm wrong about all of this, but please make the most of every waking moment.
