The world ends next month

Well, I have long believed that the world was going to end on December 12th 2012 (end of the Mayan Calendar and of Terrence McKenna's time wave) but it look like it might happen much sooner.

Next month, they are beginning a series of experiments in France which involve powering up the Large Hadron Collider and using it to solve some physics mysteries, unlock secrets of the universe, blah blah. (Here is a list of the times it is being typoed as the large HARDON collider, in the MSM, including the NYT, hence my illustration.) But some people fear this device might create a miniature black hole or even be some sort of Genesis point for time travel since that's the furthest back they could go. Yeah, it's possible all the time travelers from the future might start showing up next month in France. It's fascinating and kinda scary fun stuff, if you want to read about it. IO9 has a great summary here and here is some news about the various lawsuits being brought to try and stop the experiment.