Why the fascination with the end of the world?
Monday, September 8th, 2008
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By Finlo Rohrer
BBC News Magazine 12:32 GMT, Monday, 8 September 2008 13:32 UK |
A huge particle accelerator experiment is about to start and a tiny group of people believe it could spell the end of the world. But why are we so obsessed with the possibility of apocalypse?
The world will end. That much is a certainty. But it may not be soon. And in all probability it will not come to a shuddering, fiery, boiling, cataclysmic end on Wednesday this week. (more…)