This post is syndicated from Physics Stop – Original Post
If you want to know when not to expect annihilation of the earth following a second-big-bang in the Large Hadron Collider, I’m afraid the best I can offer you is a link to their press site.
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/lhc-first-physics/schedule/
They are being very coy about exactly when things will happen.
It’s quite safe! But you’d better check http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html just to be sure.
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In case you missed it, Brian Cox recently let the cat out of the bag: apparently, the LHC will, indeed, create a black hole and destroy the planet. Oh well, small price to pay…
In any case, they are probably right to not give a firm timetable. If they want it to work, they need to focus on the equipment, not the PR; something they seem to be doing, going by the statement that ‘No press will be invited for these events’.