Today marks the beginning of one of the most important experiments in human history. One which goal it is to eventually find the question to which the answer is 42.

However, more and more people (who never read Joe Haldeman ) are telling me their concerns about it. Even more disturbing, more and more children seem to be, as a friend put it, very emotional about it. They seriously fear the world is going to end.

So I wondered where they got that idea from and started googling. This is one of the most often found paragraphs.

“Someone will spot a light ray coming out of the Indian Ocean during the night and no one will be able to explain it, retired Professor Otto Roessler told London’s Mail on Sunday. “Very soon the whole planet will be eaten in a magnificent scenario — if you could watch it from the moon. A Biblical Armageddon. Even cloud and fire will form, as it says in the Bible.”

One of the biggest representatives of this theory is seems to be a certain Otto Rössler.

He’s worried that the Large Hardon Collider may create micro black holes. Based on the hardly accepted Max Abraham theory. But in order to sustain the black hole, the widely accepted Hawking radiation theory must be wrong. Hmm.

According to his wiki entry, he is a biochemist who once wanted to become a monk. Kind of hard to ignore the picture forming who might benefit of freighting children.