News that a scientific experiment will be performed in a huge particle collider in Switzerland this coming Wednesday (September 10) has a few people quite worried.  The possibility that this experiment might, as a side-effect, create a series of tiny black holes and implode Earth in the process, has brought fears to some members of the scientific community, not to mention the legions of football fans who plunked down serious coin for season tickets.

It is believed by some physicists that spurious chunks of “dark matter” from the collider could penetrate the earth, and later start pulling the surface inward, causing the planet to simply implode into a big black hole. Like a big honkin’ basketball getting its air sucked out.

Armageddon wasn’t supposed to happen for another 5 billion years or so, when the sun is expected to swell into a red giant and boil off the earth’s oceans and atmosphere, making things here generally miserable.  But if the doom-and-gloomers are correct on this collider thing, our demise could be coming much sooner than expected.

This scenario would make pretty much everything in the world rather irrelevant.  Guess we won’t be making any travel plans or long-term commitments until this mess is sorted out. Make sure you back up your data and that you have clean underwear on. You just never know.

See you all on the other side…