{"id":259,"date":"2008-09-22T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/09\/22\/large-hadron-collider-paranoia\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:36:48","slug":"large-hadron-collider-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/large-hadron-collider-paranoia\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Hadron Collider Paranoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the world has been delayed for two weeks while repairs are made on the LHC.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Paranoia over it creating a black hole that will destroy the universe are ridiculous.&nbsp; The most it would do is destroy the solar system.&nbsp; Hey, it&#8217;s been fun.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s media has been broadcasting all kinds of paranoid predictions.&nbsp; Thousands of people there are praying for god to save them, because that always works so well.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>One teenage girl was so upset that <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/137\/20080910\/736\/tnl-girl-kills-self-over-big-bang-fear-f.html\">she killed herself<\/a>, causing a slight but measurable increase in the country&#8217;s average IQ. <\/p>\n<p>You shouldn&#8217;t waste any time at all worrying about this, but if you&#8217;d like some reassurance, you can watch the LHC live web cam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyriak.co.uk\/lhc\/lhc-webcams.html\">here<\/a>, and monitor the situation.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the world has been delayed for two weeks while repairs are made on the LHC.&nbsp; Paranoia over it creating a black hole that will destroy the universe are ridiculous.&nbsp; The most it would do is destroy the solar system.&nbsp; Hey, it&#8217;s been fun.&nbsp; India&#8217;s media has been broadcasting all kinds of paranoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}