At Sixth Form (which is going great btw ) we've been talking about this pretty much all day.

Basically, a British scientist wants to 'unlock the secrets of the Big Bang' which includes exploding various things which could, get this, create black holes on earth and actually destroy everything. The experiment is happening tomorrow, Wednesday.

The following is taken from The Daily Mail Online:

"On Wednesday, Dr Evans will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-long doughnut-shaped tunnel that will smash sub-atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light.
The aim of the £4.4billion experiment is to recreate the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang - the birth of the universe - and provide vital clues to the building blocks of life.
But a handful of scientists believe that the experiment could create a shower of unstable black holes that could 'eat' the planet from within, and they are launching last-ditch efforts to halt it in the courts.
One of them, Professor Otto Rossler, a retired German chemist, said he feared the experiment may create a devastating quasar - a mass of energy fuelled by black holes - inside the Earth."

Of course, nothing will actually happen for another four years (if at all) but scientists are worried that this experiment will bring about the end of the world.

So in about four years, I'll probably do another blog title saying "Told You That Blog Was Serious!" or something

I'm discussing this with a friend on MSN right now. He's explaining why the Hadron Collider has to be so big:

"Because it accelerates protons to as near the speed of light as we dare, and seeing as though the speed of light is approximately 186000 Miles a second, thats pretty fast. So the reason its so long is that anything that happens is going to happen so fast, that they need a fighting chance of recording it."

Yes, before you say anything, he's intelligent

Hope I didn't ruin your day with news of the impending apocalypse