Its the 59 minute countdown to getting the heck outta here (hum to the tune of Europe's The Final Countdown). Opps my mistake, the 58 minute countdown.
I gave some thought to Armageddon last night, and my favorite end of the world scenario.
Ten years ago the latest and greatest of all particle accelerators was about to go online. I can’t for the life of me remembers witch one it is, but it was the biggest ever built to date. It was capable of accelerating subatomic particles of matter faster than ever before and smashing them for study.
The idea was to smash the particles so hard that we could observe new and rare forms of subatomic matter. Then be able to solve some very hard to crack physics riddles.
But there we some who speculated that we would smash the particles so hard there was a chance of creating a subatomic black hole. Much the same as the people who feared the first nuclear weapon would ignite the oxygen in the atmosphere.
Once this black hole came into existence, it would burrow to the center of the earths mass. There it would begin to grow, slowly attracting and compressing the matter in the earth’s core into itself. We would be none the wiser of it existence and life would go on.
But slowly things would start to get suspicious.
Health club regulars would start gaining weight; altimeters would read a lower altitude due to the increase of air pressure. There would be fewer beans in that pound of coffee, rivers would run faster, artillery would prove useless, satellites would change orbit.
Later a glass of water would feel like it was full of lead, walking would become difficult. Then it would quickly ramp up to ***squash***, buildings would collapse under the increased pull of gravity; satellites and aircraft would rain to earth.
The black hole would eventually gobble up the entire solar system. It would all be smashed down into the size of a baseball. Even that beer in your hand.
Have a nice day.
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