The Daily Mail has published
this article today by Michael Hanlon
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Are we all going to die next Wednesday?
Two nightmare scenarios, two ends of the world. In the first, there is little warning. For maybe a month there would be no sign that life was about to come to an abrupt and nasty end for all living things on Earth.
Then, earthquakes would start unexpectedly, alerting geologists that something terrible, unimaginable, was amiss.
After a few days, these seismic disturbances would reach catastrophic proportions.
Cities would be levelled, the oceans would rise and wash in a series of mega-tsunamis that would attack the world's coasts, killing millions.
The fact that the earthquakes were striking randomly, not along well-known geological faultlines, would be proof that something devastating was afoot.
Finally, the end would come, in a disaster of Biblical scale. The Earth would literally start to crack up.
Molten lava would wash over the land and the seas would start to boil.
Mega-hurricanes would level buildings and forests the world over. Eventually, mountains would crumble as the Earth's crust continued to disintegrate.
The fabric of the planet itself would start to disappear, trillions of tonnes of rock, water, air and life sucked into a whirlpool of unimaginable force.
From space, our blue-and-white home would appear to vanish down a plughole in a flash of light.
At least in this scenario we would have a little time, perhaps, to come to terms with the end.
However, a second doomsday scenario is even more terrifying. There would be no warning at all.
In an instant - about one-twentieth of a second - the entire Earth would simply vanish from space.
Less than two seconds later, the Moon would follow suit. Eight minutes later, the Sun would be ripped apart, followed by the rest of the planets in the solar system and onwards, a wave of destruction caused by a rent in the fabric of space itself, spreading out from our world at the speed of light.
Any extra-terrestrials out there would die too, in due course. And there would be nothing technology could do about it.
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Sounds quite dire
Later he goes through the argument about cosmic radiation but ruins it by stating
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we have to hope that the scientists have done their sums right - and keep our fingers crossed next Wednesday
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What I was wondering now, will the court actually grant the injunction against CERN, (It would annoy the BBC as they have been
planning a whole day of programmes about it).
If the court did grant an injunction what would be the next step for CERN?
If not, I expect that there may be some individuals who may attempt what we call in the UK, "Direct Action", and with the beliefs such that some think this will cause the end of the world, they could turn really nasty if they believe they have nothing to loose.
Will those operating the LHC be given bullet proof vests? 