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[Crack Baby]

This is a thread where we can dream up of a way the Large Hadron Collider might be the end of us when they smash two protons together.

The evolution of human weapons have gone as follows:

1) Bows, arrows, spears, swords, sling shots, catapults and other mechanical weapons.
- easiest to make, don't involve anything scientific except simple mechanics of trajectories, impact force, etc.

2) Guns
- more difficult, involving the combustion of gun powder

3) Conventional Explosives (TNT,C4 etc.)
- yet more difficult to make and involving more complex chemical reactions (molecules)

4) Nuclear Weapons (Fission, Fusion)
- extremely difficult to make, involving the break up or fusing of even more fundamental particles (atoms)

5) Unknown (unknown)
- should be even more difficult to make, might involve breaking up of even more fundamental particles (parts of atoms)

So here's my scenario, I call it the misery loves company doomsday scenario:

Each proton upon decay releases several "packets" or particles (yet unknown) that when colliding with other protons, decay them, which in turn release more "packets" and so on in a snowballing effect until every proton on our planet has decayed in a matter of less than one second.

Such "packets" might be short-lived so that they need to find a proton within a 100 meters or so in order for it to be effective. This would keep the moon and pretty much everything except the Earth itself completely safe.

And there wouldn't be time for an "I told you so" so no loss of face on this.

What's your scenario?

[ED209]

John Conner while trying to escape the Terminatrix powers up the strong magnets of the LHC. This traps the Terminatrix in the LHC. Using her morphing tool kit the Terminatrix cuts away at the LHC causing billions of dollars in damage bankrupting one of history's most expensive experiments. The entire Swiss nation dies from famine despite trying to make soup from cookoo clocks. The French try to make through the channel tunnel but are fought back by Daily Mail readers. Trapped in the tunnel they evolve into flesh eating cannibals only to resurface 2000 years later when released by Will Smith in hover pants.

[PeteJB]

I believe the BBC already did the best one:

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=T1vKisefsuI