Stories tagged “LHC”
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When Black Holes Collide
175m. below Geneva, he pushed the button. It turned on, collapsed, and devoured the universe. “Shit,” he cursed as he fell in. Dumb humans.
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What next?
“Finally! It’s ready. We go live at 16:00” “Hah!” I laughed. “What else could go wrong?” As my boss walked away, I said to myself “Yes, what else can go wrong?” I’d already sabotaged the refri...
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Coffee Break at the Collider
“Are we playing God here?” “No.” “No? Smashing shit together just to see what comes out isn’t playing God?” “No. God would have more finesse. We are children cracking open clams for pearls.” “...
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The Doomsayer
As always, the streets are crowded with taxis and expensive cars. As always, the sidewalks seethe with pedestrians. As always, the doomsayer wades through the tide of humanity with his message of catastrophe. “Bomb Alice and Atlas! Topple the Tot...
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Fecundity
They started with crude tools. They were very good at killing. They were also very good at loving and dreaming and sharing. They gathered in clumps which occasionally fissioned and fissioned, yeasty like, until they were all over the place. They master...
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ex nihilo
Then there was light, hot and ever expanding in an incredible instantaneous rush into a formless mass jostling and rubbing and attracting until clumps were formed into giant gaseous hatcheries winking and blinking with the birth of stars bursting forth...