Hmmm, I'm hoping, Jesus, that this is an unfortunate typo: "I hope the FBI is tracking this dude, because _I_ looks like the kind of guy that can kill people at random."

And yes, world, I used cut and paste... Guess which smartphone I didn't post this from?

Mandatory_Field

Well, since Google launched it's satellite nobody saw Sergey and Larry. Anything weird about that? Nothing?

Wake up and smell the bozon, sheep.

rospaya

Jesus, if we all cease to exist, will you or Gizmodo print a retraction? Also, can I have your Legos then?

Git Em SteveDave is starlost

Huh. Apparently I missed the newsflash where defending the Constitution of the Unites States was handed over to the BBC's web team.

SirCrumpet

If we all die because of the LHC I am going to sue them for all their worth.

DeadWriter

So if they're working in theoretical science over there w/ the LHC...how are they sure "there's no chance"? Isn't it just another theory that won't really be tested until they turn it on? This isn't the first time...they weren't sure nuclear weapons wouldn't ignite the atmosphere either and they went ahead w/ that.

vadubgeek

@djheath: hey man, which floor are you living/working on???

yogibimbi

I'm in Germany, and if the LHC will end the world I'm definetly going to drive down to Switzerland and see the show front row.

iPeg

@DeadWriter: HAHAHA!
I get it.

Themindtaker

"there's no chance that the Earth will cease to exist". Oh come on, give us that 0.0000001% glimmer of hope!

User Formerly known as Arelar

Why are black holes good for the U.S. economy?
Because they allow us to stretch our dollars.

DeadWriter

their lucky their event is on Wednesday. If it was on Tuesday nobody would of paid attention to it...

MadColombian

If Apple made black holes John Mayer would endorse them.

If Apple made planets, they would run on rock solid OS that would rarely crash.

If Apple made tiny planets, let's call them asteroids, they would still crash on Earth for no reason at all, and most of us wouldn't mind.

DeadWriter

We hope we get our $38 TV before then.... hey, maybe THAT is why they are selling the TV for $38!!!

RainyDayInterns

I just looked out the window and all the dolphins are leaving!

Coincidence?

djheath

How long before the USB version arrives for your desktop?

Gizmo

@Aoi: beat me to it (sort of...);-)

yogibimbi

@Curves: you know, like, my favourite clothes are no clothes? ....

yogibimbi

Hahahaha, Big Bang Theory..

michaelwiggins

Giz Tomorrow - Live coverage of the Apple Event.

Giz Wednesday - Live coverage of the Hadron Collider and possible atom smashing goodness

*grabs popcorn

Jon B.

This would be an excellent time for a revival of "War of the Worlds" only updated with a false video stream of CERN starting the worlds slow destruction. Flashing lights, lightning, wind effects... maybe a little tasteful CGI...

Ghede

That video depicts how I'd like it to end. It's so dramatic. I'd want the music too.

J. Nadeau

@Curves: End of the World party and clothing. I just don't see the two going together.

Aoi

I still say they use the LHC as an intergalactic weapon. It's pretty much a small death star, right? That fires lead ions at each other? God, think of the destruction.

bana

so if we all go to the pub on the 10th, we won't need a sick note for work the next day? :)

williethewisp

I was just listing to Coast-to-coast and this show has experts that have evidence for Bigfoot, UFOs and free (Zero Point) energy. They had an expert on that had evidence that the LHC would destroy the world. They will reveal their evidence on Thursday after the world has ended.

DeadWriter

I like how the doom-sayers either:

- admit they're clueless and then go on to speculate wildly

or

- claim to have special information, but don't ever provide it.

I'll be blissfully going about my normal day on Sept 10 and suggest you all do likewise.

PeterSimpson

my biggest fear is that if there ever way such a large impact in our life time...would the discovery be kept a secret? could it be kept under cover or would it be leaked. Perhaps governments are already aware of such an impact in the future. And one day, after picking up a wes anderson flick at the store, right before i start my car, i will be vaporized...really makes you think about taxes, that prick at work you mull over, and all the assholes that pretend to have our best interest at heart.

QAdam

This is the biggest scam ever. It's the Emperor's New Clothes.

"Only the smartest and most intelligent of people can see the infinitesimally small black hole we made, because it's invisible, and....it doesn't give off any light, and.... it's so small you can't see it unless you are intelligent.

You're intelligent, right?"

DeadWriter

End of the world party, my place, Tuesday night!
Go ahead and wear your favorite clothes; no sense waiting for that special occasion any more.

Curves

I'm sure with Dr. Gordon Freeman heading the project everything will be fine.

Lizard_King

Cool video. But so many questions:
500 km in diameter? When was the last time that happened? I thought the last few were in the 10-50 mile range. The moon is larger (duh) but that was like, billions of years ago.
Glancing blow or headon?
Can we blame it on the Russians?
Isn't all the CO2 like a shield?
I think the roaches will survive.

JChristopher

This would explain the sudden scarcity of cockroaches in our building.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

Man, Giz, you're gonna get me caught at work here because I'm laughing like a psychopath at my screen.

Clown porn con-artists? What the hell? Have you ever noticed that the idiots that believe in this crap have terrible, terrible grammar and spelling? Not ONE period from that psychopath, unless you count "..." as a period. For shame, psychopath.

@djheath: Somehow, the animals are always first to know...

KStrike155

they made an alternate ending to armageddon?! seriously, cool vid. i totally wanna go out to dark side of the moon, which is semi-ironic for this video.

lldsandsll

@Curves: Woo! I'm there!

ViperBorg

The world has already ended. We are currently in an infinite 10 month feed back loop. The rest of our eternity will be listening to political speeches and waiting for the world to end on Wednesday.

LoganSix

@Mandatory_Field:

Mmmh, I QUICKLY skimmed down the posting list and I find many many fine ones.

Guess which other smartphone I didn't use for this?

tabaks

Of course it won't end on Wednesday. The first collision won't happen until a month later. THEN we can all worry about the black holes and strangelets.

OmniZero

I need to object on your assertion that there is no chance that the world will end on 9/10. This is an unfortunate choice of terminology. It being the case that the Standard Model of particle physics being derived from the probabilistic methodology of quantum mechanics, it is unscientific to make such an assertion. All we can say is that we a minimum such probability, thus pointing up the absurdity of these fellows' worldviews.

thingumbob

@LoganSix: When did we enter purgatory?

SgtToastie

@williethewisp: Be sure to take your towel. Never leave home wth your towel.

CountryDevil

I think it's safe to say that no one posting in these forums, and certainly Giz, has no idea one way or another what the liklihood of something bad happening is. This is so far out of our realm of knowledge, it isn't even funny.

I'm sure they're right! I'm sure nothing will happen. But Giz shouldn't pretend like it's done the damn calculations itself and make us all feel better about it! If so, maybe a new line of work is in order.

fivepoint

Happy Monday Morning Everyone!

nystreetfilms

I have a LEED test on 9/11 that I may or may not have been studying uneccessarily for.

Gann

@yogibimbi: HA! Exactly!

And OMGYAY, ergo; I can't believe Gizmodo published my uncovering of "fktards." The Large Hadron Collider will cause millions of microscopic penises to fill the anuses of everyone. Then, as its power increases, those penises will swell infinitely large and tear us to shreds from the inside out, ergo; a brown hole(the scientific establishment of Jay Leno, Heather Gramm, and Willy Wonka has misspelled it "black" for the sake of secrecy).

(...If it isn't obvious, I'm kidding. No ban-ban.)

D.E.P.C.

@SgtToastie: On Wednesday.

LoganSix

@Aoi: I guess I didnt think that through, youre right of course. This also means I dont have to worry about buying fat free snacks, since we dont have to worry about our heart health. No condoms, because who cares, and I can start smoking again (yes!). Being the end of the world makes event planning much easier.

Jesus, please approve the account of the "con-artist fascist net-nazi clown porn" guy. I think he will add a LOT to Giz. I am really looking forward to reading his comments, assuming we dont all vaporize into nothingness on Weds.

Curves

I have a medium hadron collider in my basement and it does nothing, so I am not worried at all.

@Curves: I'll bring the oil.

Sora57

All this talk of the world ending is giving me a Tiny Hadron. I wish I had somebody to collide with ...

hypereric

Except this time we have Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis. So the odds have changed.

juicebytim

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

B1663R

December 21, 2012, bitches.

Hyman Decent

Kind of guy that can kill people at random eh?

Sure hope he doesn't get his hands on a Deathnote then...

Chromeo

As everybody knows*, the world will not end when they turn it on - but about 4 years later, when the black hole has eaten everything up. So it's very likely we have 4 Years of No-Cloth-Partys and other things we can think of.

Knowing that I have 4 Years left would be kind of great. I can still do everything I want to do, I will never have to face my 30th birthday and I'd be right about the fact, that saving money for retirement is a stupid idea.

(* nobody knows anything, really, that's why we do science in the first place)

iPeg

@williethewisp: On Thur we can just show up and say, uh, sorry, thought the world was gonna end yesterday.

@OmniZero: So if the world supposedly ends in 2012 (according to George Noory and the Myans), what happens with the LHC for the next 3 1/2 years? Mechanical failure and budget set backs I guess.

Dank

great!!! we're all gonna die, and i have scheduled my first vacation in 3 years for next week. in the immortal words of lloyd bridges
"i picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue"

godwhacker

Soo...the earth becomes inhabitable and everyone and everything dies. BUT, it now looks like a flaming, molten Death Star...

...could be worse

caleone

Look on the bright side - at least all record of Pink Floyd will be destroyed forever.

(except for the radio waves already sent I guess.... damn!)

cbdsteve

I'm way behind on a deployment that's due friday AM so it would be a relief if half the planet got vaporized on wednesday. As long as it's not my half. Then I can take the day off and enjoy my chocolate covered Higgs bosons.

Phenostar

You know, it's times like these I'm glad I play video games. I should have no problem surviving a scarred, demented alternate universe spilling onto earth's plane of existence causing hellish demons to run rampant. Thank you Half Life! It's like you knew what CERN was up to all along.

D13M

If the LHC actually succeeds, will it be called the Little Bang?

professor

Didn't I see this CG work on Discovery HD? Or was it NGHD?
Anyway, I call it just FUD. Something THAT big, on a course for Alderaan, er Earth, would have been marked and noted for some kinda plan. Plus, wouldn't debris, ejected that far into space, keep going? And then there is the matter of gravity. Plus, the moon would come around to our defense. Or that battleship lying in refurb, would save us from the Comet Empire...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

yawn.

noobtard

Oh pffft. The world ended on XDay like it always does.

PastorDoodah

@djheath: so long and thanks for all the fish.

emergeoriginal

Black clouds circle the house.

There is no more sun.

We have stayed inside since Wednesday.

The air is filled with bitter particles. Everything smells burnt.

The lights are out. It is night always.

At least we don't hear any more screaming from outside.

Something, I don't know what, bites at my feet. Sharp, razor bites.

This morning I woke up in pools of blood.

My body stings from the bites.

They're multiplying. And they're hungry.

I'm getting weak.

I think it's from the blood loss.

Or the burnt air.

Oh yeah. Ellen didn't wake up. Her body was covered with blood.

I figured we would be safe here.

Giz, how could you let this happen?!

Clown porn fktard con-artists, why didn't they listen to me?

frigg

@future-proof:
And what about those who can't swim? OH NOES! This isn't fair xDDDD

RebootEDC

I'm gonna max out my credit cards on Tuesday just in case...

BEERxTaco

How is it that the Earth becomes inhospitable and that happened 6 times?

Does that mean that the miracle of carbon bonding and life creation happened 6 times? The video still has water shown in it so maybe the marine life deep down survived?

Has evolution from marine life to air breathing life happened 6 times?

Wouldn't we just say 'ah fuck the air... we've been killed 6 times so let's just stay in the water this time'?

future-proof

@Phenostar: Saw that one comin, did ya?

Chuck Norris too overplayed these days?

ViperBorg

@ViperBorg: Well that was inevitable. Is this the new Godwin's Law?

Phenostar

Hey lay off the clown porn. They only painted their face to look sad.

ripfire

@Ken_Darrow: No. Chuck Norris.

ViperBorg

@cbdsteve: "at least all record of Pink Floyd will be destroyed forever."

That's just sick.

GadgetPlay

Amazing video.

The only survivor will be John Dvorak right?

Ken_Darrow

I think we should all remember that science is not the same thing as mathematics. Mathematics is absolutes and science is observations. Is there a possibility that bad might happen from this experiment? Considering no one knows for sure what will happen, hence the reason for the experiment in the first place, isn't it stupid to say anything is impossible? Maybe it will create a Brittany spears robot killing machine.

joebobfunguy

you guys aren't really reading the whole shebang regarding the LHC startup. they're just basically turning the thing on this wednesday. they'll then test particle acceleration and control in one direction and then the other direction before actually smashing any particles, which will be at least a few weeks off.

@joebobfunguy: you're correct on the difference between math and science to a point. at its core, math is just assumptions as well, though the basic ones just haven't been proven wrong. numbers are just an assumption we came up with that have worked pretty well, but there's no law that states 1+1=2. that's why everything in math is called a "theorem" and not a "law".

as far as something going wrong with the LHC, i fully don't expect anything catastrophic. the scientists in charge of this whole thing are correct in that more energetic collisions occur in the atmosphere and ground around us. hell, we've got a detector that's a cubic kilometer that's buried in the antarctic ice looking for similar collisions. what we're doing here is just whipping together a collider so that we can have a camera there when it actually happens. and this black hole business is bunk. black holes don't suck everything in. they in fact emit lots of radiation and the micro black holes that could be created won't be large enough to pull in enough mass to make up for the emitted radiation so they'll basically fall apart. many scientists theorize that we've already made these black holes in other colliders but that we haven't had the technology to detect them.

stre

@ViperBorg: Not at all!
(looks over shoulder, terrified of roundhouse kick to the head)
More Chuck Norris for all!
The internet was invented for the sole purpose of spreading the fear of Chuck, and therefore there is no such thing as "too overplayed".

Phenostar

I miss Earth Mark I, Mark II is just a cheap knock off of the original, it's just been done to death. Maybe Mark III will be more innovative, but the deadline has been pushed back so many times that I wonder if it's vaporware.

jkr's bold comment

You know. If the world did end tomorrow? As long as it doesn't hurt, I'd be fine with that.

Cultivar

@ViperBorg: LOL... Maybe Ballmer may survive, he'll just eat the asteroid as it comes in.

Ken_Darrow

@D13M: They're waiting for you, Gordon...in the Test Chamber...

Clark_Gable

((psst, most mass extinctions happened over millions of years, so not all were asteroids))

Ornament

@thingumbob: two words: Statistical Impossibility.

jkr's bold comment

@thingumbob:

Now we all know how smart you are, thank you.

I think the people that built the collider are smart enough to know whether or not there is an actual risk of global destruction by using it, and if there was, I think they are smart enough to figure out that it probably wouldn't be worth the risk.

stereobot

@thingumbob: well i can definitely be sure that it won't end. we're not doing experiments on 9/10, they're just turning the thing on. if you put your modern physics textbook down for two seconds (since you obviously pulled several phrases from the back cover of one or like to point out that you took quantum mechanics in college: news flash, plenty of us did) you'd also find the common sense see the world for what it is and not talk in probabilities so low as to be negligible. if you want to get technical, there's no reason the world couldn't end this very second, thanks to the "probabilistic methodology of quantum mechanics".

stre

Very precise animation. A lot of physics and actual studies went into this movie. It was shown on BBC and Science Channel. Amazing fact that after all oceans evaporate into the atmosphere, most water come down after few thousand of years.

vgart

@JChristopher:
And aren't you glad to see the Parthenon and London survived...? A nice foundation for the roach empire.

kaylix

Thanks for your kind indulgence. Actually I did not take any course in quantum mechanics. I dropped out of majoring in Math after I was convinced that the department had no other justification than that "math is good exercise for the brain." Speaking of brains, I believe in one of the scenarios floating around the Multiverse string theorists' fond dreams is something called a Boltzman brain. This is where there are no particles just brains floating in the void. I am not making this up.

thingumbob

I know there have been many large impact events in the earth's history, but THAT large? I know the prevailing theory for the moon's origins involves a massive collision, but I'm pretty sure the impact at the end of the Cretaceous was more modest. Modest enough for small mammals to survive anyway.

crazydave_w

Well, I've never much cottoned to the theater of the absurd, thanks.

thingumbob

@thingumbob: That idea is fairly well covered in Manifold Time by Stephen Baxter. A good read if you're into the whole multiverse idea.

Phenostar

I wouldn't mind the world ending either, but there aren't any actual tests taking place on Wednesday so there really shouldn't be any fears... yet.

Kymeira

Thingumbob must be correct. The world could still end of Wednesday for non-LHC reasons. It could even end for non-LHC reasons at the same time they flip the switch. At best you can only say "The odds of the world ending are going to be about the same as the world ending on any other day." Or at least an infinitesimally small increase in odds.

LucioBuzzard

Very early in Earth's history there was a collision with a Mars sized asteroid which created the Moon - the entire planet became molten rock and the Moon spun off.

whiteoak

my physicist friend told me that if they did create a mini-black hole, it would be so ridiculously small it would fall to the center of the earth without coming into contact with another particle of matter.

Also, he told me that gravity stems not from matter, but from energy... I am fascinated. So if light and radiation has wave/particle duality then matter itself has a duality of both physical being and existence as only energy, and it is the concentration of energy that creates 'gravity'

ras_d

I'll tune in for the same reason most people watch Nascar. I'm sure it'll be boring, but I'm hoping for the slightest chance of mayhem and death.

puddy77

@Ken_Darrow: John Dvorak is the asteroid.

Jesus Diaz

I was worred until I saw pictures of the device where pipes were wrapped in duct tape. I'm fine with it now.

Tarv

How do they know what will happen? If they did they would have no reason to do this in the first place! And when would they tell us when soemthng goes wrong,now or much later? Too mnay tihngs can go worng and th more complex things get the better chance for that to happen. it's called thinking you are god and nature gets you every time.

metz87

All i can ask for is that they play the final countdown before they activate it.

Mike918

@cbdsteve:

The PF radiowaves will still be there, but you will be completely gone... Aaaah, the justice..

petethefreeze

This is nothing a tin-foil hat won't fix...

petethefreeze

The world ends on Wednesday huh? God... is there WoW in heaven?

bflaming55

It will be fun to watch the Earth shrink, eaten by a black hole, but I'm worried about one thing - when do I buy the popcorn for the show?

Raidah

Woo my birthday is on the 10th! What better way to celebrate my birth than to watch particles collide.

qwertyfreak69

Only smart guys like me seems to know that the whole HARD-ON collider thing is a divertion to the date we will make contact with aliens... or the day of Area 51 reallocation... or to the fact that we are getting closer to reveal the truth behind the Moon Landing staging... or something like that.

Well, maybe it's just a huge laser-sonic-plasma weapon thinguie that will destroy the 1000 kilometer large meteorite that's traveling 100000 miles per hour Earth colision route.

Oops, sorry. Mom is telling me to go to sleep. Kthxbye!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@ras_d: "So if light and radiation has wave/particle duality then matter itself has a duality of both physical being and existence as only energy, and it is the concentration of energy that creates 'gravity'"
well the idea of wave/particle duality is wrong, there is no duality. Everything is a wave, however, "particles" are extremely low frequency waves. An example, is that a baseball in motion has a wave equation. And, yes, gravity is a property of all energy, including matter and light. Concentration of energy is not a requisite for gravity, any amount of energy will have a corresponding amount of gravity.

jkr's bold comment

I seriously doubt that a black hole can be formed with measly human made tools. I think the scale of conditions required to create black holes are beyond human or even earthly capability.

But, would if colliding those whatzits is the first step to planet formation that cascades out of control at that particular location, instead of outer space, where it 's supposed to?

I do not want new planets forming upside my head.
It would probably mess up the moon too.

2oonhed

The final shot of the Earth reminds me of the Death Star.

EdRocker

Damn - and here I've been acting like Steve Buscemi in "Armageddon", raking up massive debt, snortin coke off hookers and living the high life - and now you're tellin' me I gotta pay it all back?! Crap.

robbo

This is gonna kick start another Evolution of the Human race, all the things we will learn from this and the benefits to technology not just from what Cern are using IE 'GRID' but also what we could leap in Computing evolution terms and overall technology.

Every so often society makes giant leaps from the Industrial age to the Micro chip now onto bigger and brighter thing!!

Star Trek could become a reality!!

jufonuk1977

An EVIL particle accelerator?

bmoredlj

While Giz doesn't smile upon the completely stupid or scarily insane, how does she feel about the mildly apathetic? I look forward to reading about the data that comes out of this facility, but I'll leave the conspiracy theories and ignorant fears to the /tinfoil crowd. Thanks for the time, hope to comment again sometime.

ctp2nd

@djheath: they did thank us for the fish first :)

yupimalex

I'm glad that iPhone firmware 2.1 is coming out tomorrow (hopefully). That way, if the world ends on Wednesday, I will be able to enjoy a stable firmware version on the iPhone 3G for one day!!

vandy1997

Hey "Clown porn con artists"? I think i have that dvd

lindsey8675

We do all realize that black holes evaporate, and small ones evaporate really quickly

jkr's bold comment

Actually, because of the time difference, the LHC will already be on before many of us in the US go to sleep Tuesday night. I believe it will turn on around midnight tonigh on the west coast. Hold your end of the world parties early :p I actually don't know why everyone is focused on tonight in any case, only one of two beams will be turned on. Collisions won't actually take place until October, when both beams are turned on simultaneously. The LHC creating Blackholes is an unlikely event in any case (coming from a physics student who has actually been working on the LHC project for almost 3 years now). The LHC will probe for a variety of possible new physics, many of which are much more likely than black holes, (Higgs Boson, supersymmetry, or even better- something completely unexpected.) Black holes have only recieved media attention lately because of the doomsayers. Collisions already happen at many many times the LHC energy every day in the earths atmosphrere due to cosmic rays (just not in a lab where we can actively study them). So either these collisions can't produce black holes, or else such tiny black holes are actually harmless.

HerwinDives

@DeadWriter: i think they would be called iStroids.

Alfonzo