Nothing to Fear

"You Maniacs! You blew it up!"

- George Taylor, Planet of the Apes (1968)

So since Wednesday I've been wondering if anyone else in the world has been feeling a sort of gravitational pull. You know like when you hold two magnets at opposite ends and there’s a good distance between them, but you get that small magnetic force pulling them together. Alright so you’re probably wondering what on earth I’m writing about. Well first off, it’s on earth and it’s a machine known to the public as the “Big Bang” machine, a machine that will explore the tiniest particles and come ever closer to re-enacting the big bang- the theory that a colossal explosion created the universe. And the only thing so people are worried about is whether or not this thing will go off with a big bang, and by this I mean, “Goodbye Planet Earth.”

The $10-billion Large Hadron Collider promises EUROPEAN scientists a closer look at the makeup of matter, filling in gaps in knowledge or possibly reshaping theories. Now that’s all grand and dandy, I along with the rest of the human race are just hoping we don’t become a reshaped theory.

Around a 17-mile tunnel, beams of protons will be fired to test the controlling strength of the world's largest superconducting magnets. While still a good month before beams traveling in opposite directions are brought together in collisions, oh good a slow death, some skeptics fear this contraption could create micro "black holes" and endanger the planet. Thank you skeptics, as if my senior year in High School needed this.

According to Wikipedia, the must trusted source in information (sarcasm), the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled on 21 October 2008. Right because the unofficial unveiling through photos to the public were already well received.

While the LHC looks like something straight out of sci-fi, the only difference is that we don’t have the means to go back in time or save the planet like you’d see in Stargate or Doctor Who. Unfortunately this little adventure could come straight out of The Twilight Zone.

Alright so I’m not being Mr. Positive, I’m sorry but with a story like this I can’t help myself. The truth is that we have nothing to fear because according to the Aztecs, whose place on earth ended a long time ago, the world won’t end until 2012- so four years until Doomsday.

For years scientists have been telling us the fate of the earth and the human race. They're constantly trying to figure out how, but do they even stop to think why any would care to know? And by the way, if there was a risk, like the earth be engulfed into a man made black hole, what gives scientists the right to risk the lives of the human race?

Well whatever you believe, you shouldn’t be worrying about the end of life on the planet. This past week I’ve tried not too- because of what I believe I have nothing to fear.