Tuesday, September 9, 2008

See you tomorrow. Maybe

By tomorrow morning we should know whether this Super collider  will create a black hole that will swallow the earth. That is, if we can measure that properly. And if we wake up in the morning. What might it be like to be swallowed by a black hole?

Dad once tried to launch a citrus fruit from a large slingshot made of surgical tubing. The whole thing backfired and the citrus supercollided with the wall of the house. His dad was mad, and the house bore the "black hole" for years to come. 

What if the super collider only makes a little black hole? What would the world be like with a black hole where switzerland used to be?


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