Forget DIS! Forget the market! Forget Y2K! We may never make it.
This is big, really big, er I mean small!
Found this (nosh!t) reading my weekly copy of Science News, Aug 7th, page 95.
Seems some boys at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY have a new toy. Two 3.8 kilometer rings dubbed the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider was fired up for the first time on July 16th. Yep, you say? No big deal, okay? Just some dudes dealing in subatomic theory right? Listen carefully to what director Satoshi Ozaki says, "We are creating a new state of matter--new, that is, since the BigBang."
Quoting the article now: "The lab faces an odd safety question: Will collision create black holes, starting a chain reaction that eats up the Earth? " Ozaki claims it won't. "Nevertheless, the lab has convened a panel to address the doomsday scenarios."
BLACK HOLE!!! EATS UP THE EARTH!!! Whoa dude! Be sure!
We're not just dealing with a simple little fission experiment under a college stadium, here! How the hell does something like this get by the EPA ? What if this guy is just a bit wacko ? Or plain wrong ? Forget Y2K, forget Thanksgiving! Time may just stop in this here part of the Cosmos come Nov 16th! Carl Sagan where are you, when we need you! |
