It was also tested at a VERY slow speed. It took almost an hour to do the loop. At full operational speed it will be running close to the speed of light. Also it was predicted that IF a black hole did last its infancy it would take 4yrs to swallow the earth, which interestingly enough is how long till the end of the earth as predicted by the Mayan's, December 21, 2012. They, as well as the Aztecs, have yet to get anything wrong. The Aztecs predicted doomsday for them which happened to be exactly the date when Cortez landed. If you have a public education I doubt you would know your history, go find out what happened for your self.
And if you have any sort of mathematical, scientific, engineering, or deeper history lessons you would also find out that the Mayan calender "doomsday" is not a predicted end date, but a decimal termination at which point their counting starts over again, or at which point the Mayans could have gotten lazy trying to make an infinite amount of numbers. They set up their calenders in advance, instead of creating a cyclical ideology of 12 months with exactly the same days (minus leap year for minor correction).
And that doomsday speak on all counts is typically Anglo-ified to the point of soothsaying, as apocalypse in most american indian languages was used as a purely natural occurrence (and in some cultures as an everyday thing) of death and birth, or a natural order of things. In Anglo interpretation, we take it as the end of the world. It makes for more headlines of course. For some reason our European ancestors and forefathers were (and are) obsessed with the end of the world. I am sure we can find out why, but I don't really care.
Yeah sry I forgot to reply.
I have heard it both ways. I am not one of those 'End of the World" freaks. I was just pointing it out. If you cross reference it with Revelations one will quickly see that the world ending in 4 years can not/will not happen. It clearly states that after the anti-Christ there will be 3.5 years of peace, prosperity, and happiness followed by 3.5 years of pure hell on earth. Then the final battle in which the Bible states, the blood will be up to a horses mane. Now again I am not preaching the Bible, but if one wants to believe the Aztecs and Mayan's predictions, should also take into account the Bible.
One last and interesting point, theologians have studied the Bible and have been able to point out all the last major world powers, ie Russia, China, Israel, Iran, ect ect. except for one, America. It seems for the end times that the United States will be destroyed. Now if you want to even go farther down the path, one of the Russian Generals said that they would use everything to defend themselves against a missile defense system in Poland, (that is supported by the US, and how one defends again a defense system really does not compute.) That infers the use of nuclear weapons.
Again, I don't really believe any of this, I just wanted to bring it all to light.
