48 HOURS Until the End of the World

[captaincrab]

Nice post Rolf-thanks

[Glen]

Good morning,.......what happenned...............are we dead yet?

[mortgage broker]

Still weeks before they actually start smashing particles

[Rolf]

The actual experiments will not begin until late October. This was only a first test to see that their new toy is working as planned. (But naturally that hasn't deterred the media from blowing it out of proportions)

[tricky]

I loved the claim that the resulting black hole could allow earth to be invaded by aliens.
Man, that happpened years ago!

[tpr2]

I loved the claim that the resulting black hole could allow earth to be invaded by aliens.
Man, that happpened years ago!

exactly.....didn't anyone watch Michael Jordan....he had to be an alien. Now there's that Tiger guy....

[whitt]

or lightening bolt

[spurner]

The atom smasher has claimed its first life...

Girl kills herself over Big Bang fears

A teenage girl in India has reportedly killed herself out of fear the world was about to end because of the atom-smashing "Big Bang" experiment conducted in Europe,.

The 16-year old girl, from the state of Madhya Pradesh, died after drinking pesticide, The Daily Mail said.

Her father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said his daughter, Chayya, had killed herself after watching doomsday predictions about the Large Hadron Collider on Indian news programmes.

"In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on September 10," Biharilal said.

"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail."

As part of their experiments, scientists have now successfully fired protons in both directions around a 27-kilometre underground ring on the Swiss-French border.

They hope to smash the components of atoms together in attempts to learn about their structure.

But fears have been raised the experiment could create a black hole that would suck the Earth away, although the scientists involved insist the experiment is safe.

Fears about the experiment had spread rapidly through the media in deeply religious India, The Daily Mail said.

Thousands of people had rushed to temples to pray and fast while others savoured their favourite foods in anticipation of the world's end, the paper said.

[tpr2]

The only black hole I know of in my world is Macquarie bank in Oz!!!!
Interest rates nudging 11% even though all other banks are well under that.

[Bluekiwi]

The atom smasher has claimed its first life...

Has anyone told Winston about this ?

[Eridani]

If all else fails - always make sure you have a towel!

The new Safety Assessment Report, published by the Institute of Physics in London, says that any black holes produced by the collider would be “microscopic” and would decay almost immediately because they would lack the energy to grow or be sustained.

“Each collision of a pair of protons in the LHC will release an amount of energy comparable to that of two colliding mosquitoes, so any black hole produced would be much smaller than those known to astrophysicists,” it says.

“Scale the cosmic ray sums up to cover the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way and the 100 billion galaxies in the visible Universe and you find that nature has already made the equivalent of 1,031 LHCs. Or if you like, 10 trillion LHCs are running every second. And we’re still here.”

“Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists,” the report says.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4682260.ece

[cube]

Excellent idea - send mosquitoes around the collider, and obliterate malaria.

Anyone suggested this to the Gates foundation?

[tpr2]

I like the liberal use of very big numbers that we can probably not confirm.

[Stickman]

Just in case there is any doubt regarding my position David :-)

The big bang myth allows that the sun was formed long before the earth. Various theories have been formulated to explain how the universe came to be organized after the initial explosion.



Take your choice: the planetesimal theory, the nebular theory, the dust cloud theory. They all have one thing in common—they assert that the earth is a new-comer compared to the sun.



However, the Bible teaches that the earth was created first, and the sun came later—on the fourth day of the first week (Genesis 1:1, 14-16).



The same point can be made regarding the stars. The Bible puts them after the earth; the evolutionary model teaches otherwise. Of course some have attempted to solve this difficulty with yet another slippery compromise. They allege that the “creative acts” of Genesis 1 are not necessarily “in chronological order” (Willis 1979, 92).


The big bang theory supposes that the universe started with a chaotic explosion which then proceeded toward order. The Bible teaches the exact opposite. God created the universe as a beautiful and orderly masterpiece, but it has been degenerating toward disorder in the intervening millennia (Psalm 102:25ff; Hebrews 1:10-12).


Big bang cosmology postulates a universe that is nearly twenty billion years old, with the human race evolving only three or four million years ago. According to this view, a vast period of time separates the origin of the universe from that of mankind.


But the Scriptures affirm:
(1) The human family came into existence the same week as the universe (Genesis 1; Exodus 20:11). Man has thus existed from the beginning of the creation (Isaiah 40:21; Mark 10:6; Luke 11:50; Romans 1:20).


(2) Human antiquity extends to only a few thousand years before Christ, as evinced by the genealogical records of the Lord’s ancestry all the way back to Adam, the first man (1 Corinthians 15:45).



There are some two millennia spanning the present back to Jesus Christ; another two thousand years push history back to the time of Abraham. There are only twenty generations between Abraham and Adam (Luke 3:23-3.



Even if one concedes that some minor gaps exist in the Old Testament narrative (cf. Genesis 11:12; Luke 3:35-36), surely no responsible Bible student will contend that twenty billion years can be squeezed into those twenty generations.



The universe thus cannot be billions of years old.


Big bang chronology and biblical chronology are woefully at variance.

A good friend of mine who is quite the learned Bible scholar made an interest point to me about 3 months ago, the Bible actually never states how long Adam and Eve lived in Paradise before exile. One would imagine that in a perfect world they could have existed for aeons without any degeneration to themselves. Not sure exactly where I stand on it at this stage, but I found it interesting food for thought...

[Baby Boomer]

The bible also states the the sons of God found the daughters of men were beautiful and they married any of them they chose. Genesis 6, then God reduced their lives to around 120 years. This whole chapter is very interesting. it mentions the Nephilim people who where on the earth 'at that time'. Heros of old.
I don't have a conflict with the bones of antiquity being found and what the bible states. God has a different notion of time than us mere mortals.