What is happening on 10 September 2008 that is behind the theory the world is about to end?

Question

On TV there were vague references to something that will happen on Wednesday 10 September, 2008. I didn't really understand as I wasn't concentrating, but it may be some experiment or test that is taking place, in Switzerland I think was mentioned. Black holes were mentioned too.

My first thoughts were 'oh here we go again' but I don't think it was the usual 'prediction' type of alarm but more to do with science.

Does anyone know where I can find out more, fact rather than fiction please.

Answer 1

no the world is not going to end the 10th of September 2008 is just one day away to the 7 anniversary of the September 11th attacks

Answer 2

I hope that the forecast proves to be incorrect although I understand the experiment involves the high speed movement of particles at the speed of light in a huge circular machine, some 18 miles long, and buried 300 ft below the surface of the Earth. They appear to trying to prove how the "big bang" occurred and how life began. I just hope their predictions are untrue for it may ruin my Wednesday golf competition. It would be a coincidence if, when trying to prove how life began, the World imploded and life is extinguished.

Answer 3

There's an experiment taking place at Cern in Swtzerland involving a particle accelerator.

Answer 4

oh, that...yeah well...just some scientists trying to play God and gambling with all of our lives.....should be fun.

Answer 5

They're trying to create Black Holes at CERN, don't worry though as these will dissipate in a matter of seconds.

Answer 6

CERN may make a black hole which will destroy either the hole earth, or a sizable proportion, basically ruining everyone's day.

I also go back to school that day...so it is the end of the world either way for me...joke! :D

Answer 7

The new particle accelerator (The Large Hadron Collider) is being swithched on at CERN.

This apparatus fires atoms into each other at enormous speed to try to emulate the conditions 1 billionth of a second after the creation of the universe (the Big Bang)

The worry is that in their quest to find out how the universe was created the scientists may inadvertently create a black hole and the universe will be sucked into it.

Answer 8

Wouldnt it be funny if when they turn their big fancy machine on it does nothing. LOL.

Supposidly it is going to make a balck hole and everyone is going to die. Yeah right, if every predictions was right, we would have died in 2006 and 1999 come to think of it every year :|

Answer 9

Look up Large Hadron Collider.....and nope the world is not going to end!

Answer 10

in 5 Days the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Short CERN ) is going to start theyre LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and try to generate a small BIG BANG to find out how life began!

Problem is nobody know what happen in the Test.

One thing could happen is a BLACK HOLE which would destroy the earth and our sun system.

Answer 11

CERN Particle Accelerator...

They are looking for the GOD particle (Higgs Boson) - The Higgs particle is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model, and the only fundamental particle predicted by that model which has not been directly observed as yet.

If they create a Higgs Boson Particle, they will all be happy little Scientists.

Answer 12

It's an experiment in Cern, Switzerland.  I don't understand all the physics, but they have created a Large Hadron Collider, which is a particle accelerator.  There is a possibility that small black holes will be created, but they will not be large enough to do any damage.

Answer 13

there's an experiment happening in switzerland. something about protons and particles and when they turn the machine on next weds apparently there's like a 1 in 50million chance it can cause a black hole and suck the universe in which is lovely.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a... wrote:

They claim there is a small - but not zero - chance that when the LHC is activated it will create either a mini-black hole which would fall into the ground and swallow the Earth from within (scenario one).

Or, even more bizarrely, trigger a catastrophic chain reaction in the very fabric of space and time itself, which would rip apart the entire universe like the skin of a bursting balloon (scenario two).

Bizarrely, this group, led by a German chemist called Otto Rossler, are using the European Convention on human rights to argue that, should the LHC destroy the entire Universe, it would 'violate the right to life and right to private family life'.

Answer 14

It is an experiment to recreate conditions immediately following the creation of the universe (as we know it) commonly referred to as the "Big Bang".

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.

Answer 15

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/...

Check here

Answer 16

They have a time machine built under the swiss alps and it can create a black hole that can take us back to the dawn of time.

Answer 17

Its 2012.  

Answer 18

Okay, there's this thing called the Large Hadron Collider, based in Switzerland. It is the most expensive experiment in the world: designed to recreate the Big Bang, scientists hope to discover a new particle which theoretically hides in what scientists call dark matter.

But there is a small chance that when the LHC will be turned on, it will create a black hole - and the theory is that the earth would disappear in a twentieth of a second, with the moon following suit less than 2 seconds afterwards; eventually the whole solar system could be wiped out.

Try wikipedia for more, or websites of newspapers.

Answer 19

Sorry Prudence but if Old Mother Shipton got it wrong then i'm not believing anything else! Look her life up on the net, her prophesies were amazing for a little old herbalist from Knaresborough in North Yorkshire - how could she have forseen flight and armoured tanks in the time in which she lived? There's lots more and it's a great place to visit with the petrifying well!

Answer 20

i dunno, but don't we get that thing every 5 or 6 months?

Answer 21

A big particle accelerator is being switched on in Switzerland.

A 1 in 50000000 chance it will make a black hole and destroy the universe allegedly

Answer 22

All information is on this website i think:

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome...

So hypothetically speaking if it does engulf the world sending us to an alternate dimension, how long do you think the creator of it all would get in jail? :P and how come nearly everyone got thumbs downs? D: