Some stories can only be told reliably before the event. Tom Lehrer said something similar regarding songs about WWIII.
When a history of war is told it is most often told by the victor. However, a story of a catastrophe may be told by the illiterate and uninformed survivors and have a tendency to be condensed into an allegorical tale that is both vague and open to many interpretations.

This is a story of a great step into the unknown. A step not unlike the Trinity A Bomb test when there were hysterical critics who speculated that the nuclear chain reaction may not end with the Uranium in the bomb and might continue around the world.
The next great step will occur in August of this year. The Hadron collider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
will be switched on and power proton particle streams at such velocities that their mass will exceed that of a couple city buses and create a collision that may open new doors to an understanding of particle physics, dimensions, black holes, dark matter and the search for the elusive Higgs boson.

It is so big http://www.petermccready.com/portfolio/05091902.html that you could walk at 3mph for 5 hours and 20 minutes without retracing your steps inside the circular tunnel. 2,000 lbs magnets are above your head and 100 meters above that are bucolic farmland of both France and Switzerland.

Some theorists contend that only 17 kilograms of matter at incredible energies are required to form new spatial dimensions that would expand into a Universe of their own. In such a case we would be unaffected by such an occurrence since it is outside our dimensions. Other theorists claim that if we do not have the numbers right we could accidentally collapse "de sitter space" and create a small class one supernova that would extend a bit beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Of course the other possible discovery is that nothing new happens which would be of great scientific interest and disaster for the investors.

This story is about the two contentious scientists regarding the formation of a small black hole inside the Hadron super collider. One says the black holes would disintegrate soon after formation and the other says it would continue to grow if magnetic containment is lost and it burrows beyond the tunnel walls.


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Chapter 3   

Although smoking was prohibited in the Hadron collider private offices, Dr. Hagi Shivarishma chain smoked and wore purple corduroy pants and a brown and black striped sweater, but on him it looked good. His Norman Rockwell calendar had a big red circle around today's date August 13th. It has been over 12 years of construction and many more years in the conception of today's project. Hagi reached for desk phone, cell phones did poorly when the magnets were engaged, and dialed Bruce Caldwell's number which was simply *42.

"Hello, hold on", Bruce said in a detached manner, while Hagi blew another cigarette ash off his keyboard. "Yes what is it?"
Hagi said, I see you have petitioned to postpone again. You have administration running from pillar to post but it will serve no purpose, we are still green light for 1400.

"Hagi I have new data for a M.B.H. (mini black hole) trajectory in the event of a L.O.C."
Hagi blows a blue cloud of smoke and says "Bruce you are pissing in the wind, your delay was denied."
"Come look for yourself, the MBH would have a trajectory that would accumulate enough mass to form a sink hole the size of Africa in 20 minutes."
"Bruce why don't you calculate what that would be on the Richter scale and get back to me tomorrow."
"Hagi I admit we don't know if a MBH is even possible but if it is, you realize that the collider will have to run continually for years on end until the MBH grows from condensed atmospheric mass and exponentially until it exceeds containment strength and drops like a cannonball toward the center of the Earth."
"My friend, you simply have a case of nerves. By Occums Razor we have nearly 100% possibility nothing will happen except for a bunch of protons getting smashed to smithereens. Now I've got to go now."
Hagi hangs up the phone without saying goodbye and stubs out another ciagarette. Bruce hangs up while keeping his gaze fixed on his computer screen.

Chapter 4
In the cafeteria one ceiling mounted lcd TV was showing a French news broadcast about Iraq and another was showing Sponge Bob Squarepants...