Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: quixotic
  • Music: Jekyll and Hyde, 'Presentation to the Board of Governors.'

I regret nothing!

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva will be firing for the first time on September 10th, at 9:00 AM (or thereabouts). Since I am not actually in Geneva, this means the Large Hadron Collider will be firing for the first time...tonight. At around 11:00 PM. After I've gone to bed.

So, y'know, I may wake up to discover that a black hole has been accidentally unleashed and will now begin cheerfully devouring the planet. Or I may not wake up at all, since the really paranoid people inform me that there's a decent chance the Large Hadron Collider will recreate the Big Bang and, in so doing, unmake all creation. (Amanda, before you hit me with your amazingly large physics brain, I know this isn't going to happen. But a girl can dream.)

So if tomorrow we're all reduced to component atoms, stardust, and the sound of voices screaming "I told you so!" into the void, well...

I regret nothing.

Do you?
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branna

September 9 2008, 22:20:32 UTC 8 years ago

Hitting you with my brain would not be a pleasant experience (I am not fond of concussions). I am indeed one of the cohort who is very tired of hearing these very very unlikely scenarios discussed, but I have resigned myself to the inevitability :).

seanan_mcguire

September 9 2008, 22:21:42 UTC 8 years ago

See, I, too, have resigned myself to the inevitability...

...but I'm allowed to hope for an apocalypse straight out of a bad horror movie, right? Your children can be the priests of the Church of Physic, and wear poorly-designed clerical gowns made from old lab coats!

keristor

September 9 2008, 22:42:44 UTC 8 years ago

I will personally be very disappointed if it doesn't destroy at least Switzerland (I would have preferred it if they had put it in Brussels instead though, so I'm hoping that it will take out Belgium as well), and I will be writing to my MEP to complain that my taxes were not put to the use for which they were intended. I want a Big Bang for my money!

seanan_mcguire

September 10 2008, 01:06:08 UTC 8 years ago

I don't know anyone in Switzerland, but I suppose I can support this, as long as you promise that eventually, a hole will be torn in the fabric of time and I'll get dinosaurs out of the deal.

keristor

September 10 2008, 04:51:03 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, that would be really cool as well. Switzerland gets swapped with the same bit of land from millions of years ago, and the dinosaurs then invade Belgium and then eat all the politicians there. They could bring with them some long-extinct diseases as well to which 99.9% of of humans have no defenses, thus solving Global Warming. Except that the Methane they produce causes it to get worse so that the Earth is more comfortable for the dinosaurs, which it turns out was their plan all along and they had secretly built another black hole generator in the Pleistocene so that when the LHC was switched on the time swap would happen (but we don't find that out until the sequel).

You now have until October to write and publish this series of books and have it produced for television, because apparently this morning they are only turning on the beam in one direction, the Really Big Collisions(tm, probably) won't be starting until October...

catnip13

September 10 2008, 05:19:07 UTC 8 years ago

I could go for the desrtuction of Switzerland right now. My uncle lives there, and I owe him money.