So still here then.
As has been noted by smarter brains than me the Hadron Collider was never going to kill us or suck us into an alternate reality.
But what if it did?
What if it sucked us all into a universe where things had unfolded differently. Where the numbers 911 are just the digits American’s dial for help, where George Dubya was impeached for election fraud, where Vladimir Putin retires from politics to star in Terminator four and eventually winds up as Gay Hardcore S & M porn star, where the UN are able to agree on the colour of the sky, where the post cold war glow didn’t turn out to be the reboot on the missile launch computer.
The Hadron Collider may have failed to deliver this but the world didn’t end. It’s important you remember that. That and that there is another way to change the world:
Americans vote Brand urm I mean Obama.
It didn’t end because they haven’t done the real experiment yet, all they’ve done is switch the HLC on and sent some protons around the machine at 20mph… the real experiment will see them them colliding at 99.9999% the speed of light. That’s when some argue mini black holes could be created (this is challenged by the people at CERN, they merely THEORISE they black holes will dissipate, a theory Stephen Hawkins came up with) that destroy the planet!
So yup, not out of the woods yet!
I’m still checking regularly.
Interesting alternate history. Just how different would the world be if Al Gore had won in 2000? Was that the point that has tipped us towards some terrible new fascism? It would be interesting to drop someone from that reality into ours. How close to boiling is the frog?
That last line. Can you believe I’m actually losing sleep at the idea that my fellow Americans are stupid enough to vote for McCain?
Also, I’m thankful for the most part the world didn’t end. I’ve got stuff to do, after all. 🙂
we are not outta the woods yet :-). Waiting for the dinosoars to appear- how cool would that be!