Indian teenage suicide over black hole test.

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

Indian teenage suicide over black hole test: reports

An Indian teenage girl killed herself because she feared that a massive experiment to re-create the birth of the Universe would herald the end of the world, reports said Thursday.

Chayya Lal, 16, from the central state of Madhya Pradesh, committed suicide after watching television reports on how the particle-smashing test in Geneva could bring about doomsday, Indian newspapers reported.

She swallowed unidentified tablets on Tuesday and was rushed to hospital, but doctors were unable to save her.

Chayya's parents said she had spoken of her fears about the "Big Bang" experiment.

"Chayya had asked me a number of times whether the world would end as they were saying on television," her father Bihari told the Hindustan Times.

"We tried to divert her attention and told her not to worry about any great disaster," the Mail Today quoted him as saying.

The Mail said the local police inspector had raised doubts about the reasons for Chayya's death and had vowed to investigate.

The start of the underground test on Wednesday was hailed a success after the Large Hadron Collider (LHV) designed to expose the secrets of the cosmos swung into action.

Scientists behind the project had earlier dismissed fears that it could create either a "black hole" whose super-gravity would swallow the Earth, or a theoretical particle called a strangelet that would turn the planet to goo.

When the machine is fully operational, scientists hope to fleetingly replicate conditions at the "Big Bang" that created the Universe 13.7 billion years ago.

[PaulStott]

Could'nt she have just gone to her room and sulked until teatime like any other teenager?

[ÐæLèx]

If she was gonna kill herself, why not wait until the end of the world where it would take care of it for her?

Seriously The previous two responds are tactless. somone was fragile enough to believe taking their own life would have been better then whitnessing the end of the world. We are not all blessed with "supreme" deductive reasoning like the others and IQ's that will surparse COMMON decency.

We don't know what the TV program told her, but scientists have filed at least two lawsuits to try to stop CERN's planned black hole experiments. They calculate a significant possibility the man-made black holes could swallow earth in a matter of days. "Worth looking into", said a judge. 'Not likely', says CERN. Hey, let's try it and see!?

quick grabs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/sc...gewanted=print

http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...s/4276847.html

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74044

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

Oh, Nost, man. The world's going to end. What did I tell you?

[Nostalgia]

Originally Posted by Thinking Man's Idiot

Oh, Nost, man. The world's going to end. What did I tell you?

Chin up old bean, it broke down, which means we still have at least two months to live Lol!




Cern atom-smasher delayed at least 2 months