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Could the world possibly end tomorrow? Well sure it could, I guess it could end any day if you think about it. But what has a few people alarmed at least for tomorrow is that the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, known as the Large Hadron Collider housed at CERN Labs in Geneva Switzerland is coming online Wednesday September 10th.

The Large Hadron Collider is the most expensive single machine ever built by man at a cost of $10 billion and is massive in it’s scale. It consists of 17 miles of underground tunnels and a collection chamber with machined steel plates at either end 30 meters in diameter (3 times higher than the tallest diving platform at the Olympics). The purpose of the collider is to discover fundamental particles, specifically the theorized Higgs boson, that will help scientists take a step closer in their search for The Grand Unified Theory which will basically explain all of physics.

Where the problem comes in, is that the experiments conducted by the collider can produce mini black holes which some scientists predict can end up at the core of the Earth and eventually consume it (yes, the Earth) like you do your grandmother’s special blueberry pancakes. For some ultra-geek reading, check out professor Otto Rossler’s paper on how this may happen (get out your scientific calculators). He has also filed a lawsuit trying to stop the collider from becoming fully operational.

The world probably won’t end tomorrow because the LHC is only being fully powered up and accelerating a beam of particles around the ring without crashing them into an opposing beam which would produce the mini black holes. However, you never know what will happen.

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Or if you’d like to watch as the world possibly ends tomorrow, CERN is having a webcast of the days events and you can watch the world end live right here. If the world does end, Google’s ad revenue is sure to decrease a bit.

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