10: Earth swallowed by a black hole
Richard Wilson is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics at Harvard University in the US:
"Around seven years ago, when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider was being built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, there was a worry that a state of dense matter could be formed that had never been created before. At the time this was the largest particle accelerator to have been built, making gold ions crash head on with immense force. The risk was that this might form a stage that was sufficiently dense to be like a black hole, gathering matter from the outside. Would the Brookhaven labs (and perhaps the entire Earth) end up being swallowed by a black hole created by the new accelerator?
"Using the information we already know from black holes in outer space, we did some calculations to find out if the Brookhaven particle accelerator was capable of forming such a black hole. We are now pretty certain this state of matter won't form at Brookhaven and that the Earth won't be swallowed when these particles collide."
Chance of Earth being gobbled up by a black hole in the next 70 years: Exceedingly low
Danger score: 10
• Naked Science: Clash of crises, is a free event at the Science Museum's Dana Centre on Wednesday April 20. The event is free but tickets should be prebooked on 020 7942 4040 or tickets@danacentre.org.uk. Please see www.danacentre.org.uk for full details. You can also take part in the Dana Centre's survey, investigating the nation's biggest fears for the future at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
SOMETHING VEDIC THIS WAY COMES
"In this age of nescience, men have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky, and above all, always disturbed.
"Religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of ignorant behaviour. Wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man’s good birth, proper behaviour, and fine qualities. And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one’s power.
"Men and women will live together merely because of superficial attraction , and success in business will depend on deceit. Womanliness and manliness will be considered and will be judged according to one’s expertise in sex .
"A person’s spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols and a person’s propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar. A person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be accepted as virtue, and beauty will be thought to depend on one’s hairstyle. Filling the belly will become the whole of life, and one who is audacious will be accepted as one who is truthful.
"As the earth thus becomes crowded with a corrupt population, whoever among any of the social classes shows himself to be the strongest will gain political power. Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, flowers and seeds. Struck by drought they will become completely ruined. The citizens will suffer greatly from cold, wind, heat, rain and snow. They will be further tormented by quarrels, hunger, thirst, disease and severe anxiety.
"The kings will mostly be thieves, the occupations of men will be stealing, lying and needless violence and the social classes will be reduced to the lowest level. Clouds will be filled with lightning and homes will be devoid of piety and all human beings will have become like asses.”
–from the Vedic Scripture, the Shrimad Bhagavatam, circa 3000 B.C.
GEORGE’S NEW WORLD ORDER MARCHES ON…
With the likely acceptance of the proposed candidate for Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, George W Bush’s agenda for bullying the world continues apace. This Bolton fellow has a history of unleashing disrespectful remarks about the United Nations and has recently said, “Where the U.S leads the U.N will follow.”
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