Postponing Doomsday

At 5:30pm AEST, the Large Hadron Collider will be switched on and there will be a giant party in Bicentennial Park at the end of Glebe Point Road, to celebrate that we're still alive. However if you check out the source, the time-table for destruction doesn't match what's in the news.

Protons have already been injected into the LHC.
Today is the first time protons will have made a complete circuit.
In October they will switch on the GRID, a super-fast network replacement for the internet.
Some-time un-named, but expected to be before 2009, the LHC will have enough oomph to finally start circulating proton beams in opposite directions to make a collision. Its the collisions that have people worried that micro black holes will be created that will gang up and eat us.

This explains why Dr Karl won't be giving his talk at the Footbridge theatre at Sydney Uni until 7pm.

Here's a video of the black hole from CERN:

Here is an online test of whether the LHC has destroyed the world: http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/