So when is the day we're all gonna die?

Not gonna happen anytime soon except if some political faggot decides to push the button.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.3381

"We analyze macroscopic effects of TeV-scale black holes, such as could possibly
be produced at the LHC, in what is regarded as an extremely hypothetical scenario
in which they are stable and, if trapped inside Earth, begin to accrete matter. We
examine a wide variety of TeV-scale gravity scenarios, basing the resulting accretion
models on first-principles, basic, and well-tested physical laws. These scenarios fall
into two classes, depending on whether accretion could have any macroscopic effect
on the Earth at times shorter than the Sun’s natural lifetime. We argue that cases
with such effect at shorter times than the solar lifetime are ruled out, since in these
scenarios black holes produced by cosmic rays impinging on much denser white dwarfs
and neutron stars would then catalyze their decay on timescales incompatible with
their known lifetimes. We also comment on relevant lifetimes for astronomical objects
that capture primordial black holes. In short, this study finds no basis for concerns that
TeV-scale black holes from the LHC could pose a risk to Earth on time scales shorter
than the Earth’s natural lifetime. Indeed, conservative arguments based on detailed
calculations and the best-available scientific knowledge, including solid astronomical
data, conclude, from multiple perspectives, that there is no risk of any significance
whatsoever from such black holes."

>>2653

tl; dr when's the world gonna end? xD

Ah, the youth of today. The attention span of a gnat, yet always eager for Big Universal Upheavals.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/lhc_bread_bomb_dump_incident/

A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher's subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut.

(...)

Had this week's feathered baguette-packing saboteur struck in coming months, with a brace of beams roaring round the LHC's magnetic motorway, the climbing temperatures would have been noted and the beams diverted - rather in the fashion that a runaway truck or train can be - into "dump caverns" lying a little off the main track of the LHC. In these large artificial caves, each beam would power into a "dump core", a massive 7m-long graphite block encased in steel, water cooled and then further wrapped in 750 tonnes of concrete and iron shielding. The dump core would become extremely hot and quite radioactive, but it has massive shielding and scores of metres of solid granite lie between the cavern and the surface. Nobody up top, except the control room staff, would even notice.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/06/lhc_dimensional_portals/page2.html

"We're hoping to see supersymmetry and extra dimensions," he confirmed.

Pressed on the matter of doors through which something might come, as hinted at by Bertolucci, Lamont rather elliptically said "well, he's a theorist", before recommending the book Warped Passages by physicist Lisa Randall. This explores ways in which extra-dimensional space and entities might interact with our own. It uses among others the example of how a sphere moving in 3D space would appear to someone living on a single 2D plane-space - that is as a mysterious circle suddenly blossoming into existence, growing, perhaps moving about and then shrinking down and vanishing again.

"There's no maths in it," added Lamont encouragingly, having assessed the intellectual level of the Reg news team with disconcerting percipience.

Summarising, then, it appears that we might be in for some kind of invasion by spontaneously swelling and shrinking spherical or wheel-shaped creatures - something on the order of the huge rumbling stone ball from Indiana Jones - able to move in and out of our plane at will. Soon the cities of humanity will lie in smoking ruins, shattered by the Attack of the Teleporting Juggernaut-tyrants from the Nth Dimension.

>>2682

Even more LHC:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/08/lhc_supplemental/

Some American graduate students returned to US. Due to the delay of data collection, they realized that they couldn't finish their PhD theses in Physics.

This scenario should be commonplace; if you start out at time X on your PhD but the data are not in two years later, there is trouble. It's taking a huge bet on a perfect world.