Re: hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet

[Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>]

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My daughter's classmates were all freaked out that the world was going
to be destroyed this week.

I calmed her down.

"They are only running tests in the LHC this week.  The first collision
isn't even scheduled until October 21st.

THAT'S when your friends should panic."

That's really a much better thing.  Nobody knew it was time to panic
until the day before this time around.  But now they have almost a month
to make their peace with God.  Actually, I gave them something better to
do with their panic . . .


Did anyone read "Flash Forward" by Robert J. Sawyer?

The book starts with:

===============

Day One:  Tuesday, April 21, 2009

A SLICE THROUGH SPACETIME . . .

The control building for CERN's Large Hadron Collider was new:   it had
been authorized in A.D. 2004 and completed in 2006.  The building
enclosed a central courtyard, . . ..

Lloyd was director of the collaborative group of almost a thousand
physicists using the ALICE ("A Large Ion Collider Experiment") detector
. . . they were attempting to recreate energy levels that hadn't existed
since a nanosecond after the Big Bang, when the universe's temperature
was 10,000,000,000,000,000 degrees.  In the process, they hoped to
detect the holy grail of high-energy physics, the long-sought-after
Higgs boson, the particle whose interactions endowed other particles
with mass.



===============

The plot of the book is that at the moment the LHC does its first
collision, everyone on earth has their consciousness projected 20 years
into the future, and they can "see" and "experience" what their future
self is seeing and experiencing.  For about two minutes.  Then they are
back in the present, with that future knowledge providing just about
everything that's needed for a really cool sci-fi social experiment novel.

(Oh, at CERN they are running Windows 2009 in the book...not linux)

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I explained this plot to my daughter and she and her friends are now
planning what they are going to look for and do during their two minutes
in the future -- unfortunately that decision was made in the book by
your FUTURE self.  You had no control over it.

Some things on the list so far . . .

 - see if you're in bed with someone and learn their name
 - walk out the door and see if there are Papparazi in your roses
 - find a newspaper and check for the highest value stock




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gar
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