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In four days, there will be a subatomic crash. Hopefully, all goes well but should it go badly, it's probably best to be as far away from Switzerland as possible.

I don't quite understand this.

The site is down, apparently. What was this about?

I forget the exact details but a lab in switzerland built a reactor(?) to collide two protons(i think it was protons) at midnite last night. There was a tiny chance that it could cause a black hole. Since the site when down, I think the black hole killed us and we're stuck in some sort of ghostly time warp.

Ah, I think I heard of this - the creation of an ungodly small black hole.

Astrophysics is definitely my forte, so I find this fascinating. The most common misconception is that a black hole would suck everything into it and never let anything out. This is very untrue!

A black hole doesn't suck anything in. In order to be trapped in a black hole you would need to cross the event horizon - which would mean you're intentionally walking into it.

Black holes are definitely dangerous - but not as bad as they're made out to be. So don't worry!

Actually..they didn't really do..."it", last night. They turned it on and tested a portion of the machine, but they didn't do the full experiment yet. It's not gonna be up to full speed until September I believe. At least...this is what I was told. So we may still yet have a chance to eliminate all existance.

I tried to read that blog that was on the site before it went down, and I just can't follow this story very well at all. It interests me very much, but it's just hard to understand everything.

That's depressing! I tried reading the site but it was badly written and I gave up before getting more than "black hole" and "sub atomic explosion"

I might be confusing too much futurama with actual science but if the black hole doesn't suck things in, then what do they do?

I swear I know more about science than it appears. The combination of fibro fog and a headache are making for a very bad combination.

The gravity inside of a black hole is so powerful that nothing, even light, can escape it. So when an object crosses the event horizon, it can never escape.

Okay, I knew that. One too many sci fi shows polluting my brain!