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Sep. 10th, 2008 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietHooray, the got the first beam all the way round the LHC today. I came into work early specially to watch the webcast (because I am a big geek that way) but unfortunately the CERN server couldn't cope with the load.
Deeply underimpressed with the reporting of it in general. No, the world will not end today because even if the world *were* to be at risk of ending, it would be when they collide the beams, which they're not doing today. The BBC 6Music news even explicitly said that they would be colliding things today. Bah ignorant journalists.
Look instead for world-ending microscopic black holes in another few months. Hurrah. (I like the sort of risk assessment that seriously considers whether they might accidentally destroy the world.)
Deeply underimpressed with the reporting of it in general. No, the world will not end today because even if the world *were* to be at risk of ending, it would be when they collide the beams, which they're not doing today. The BBC 6Music news even explicitly said that they would be colliding things today. Bah ignorant journalists.
Look instead for world-ending microscopic black holes in another few months. Hurrah. (I like the sort of risk assessment that seriously considers whether they might accidentally destroy the world.)
