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Google is highly likely to be shutting down Google Search in China, after discussions with Chinese authorities regarding censorship laws appear to have reached an impasse.

Last Friday, the Chinese government challenged Google directly, stating that it refused to compromise its censorship laws to prevent Google from leaving China. Google’s removal of censorship occurred after a number of ‘cyber-attacks’ has occurred to Google’s systems from an apparent Chinese origin.

Li Yizhong, the Chinese minister for industry and information technology, has this to say on the topic:

“If [Google] takes steps that violate Chinese laws, that would be unfriendly, that would be irresponsible, and they would have to bear the consequences.”

“[Google] has taken 30 per cent of the Chinese search market.”

“If you don’t leave, China will welcome that, if you don’t leave, it will be beneficial for the development of the Internet in China.”

A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or “unknown unknowns” – for instance “an extra dimension”. – But will it stop experiments? I highly doubt it!

The LHC is a 27 Kilometre underground ‘doughnut’ for firing around or colliding high-speed hadrons, usually protons or lead irons – but what for I hear you cry. Well these collisions can be very violent creating conditions similar to the time of the big bang when the entire universe was in its infancy. Apparently smaller than a proton for some time, a concept that pecks my head if I think about it too long.

So juggling the very fabric of space and time, although it fascinates me it’s also pretty scary. I mean what if we were to pull ‘something’ through or cause mass destruction if there are parallel worlds? What consequences could it have to our own world? Is mankind all too eager to ‘flip the switch’ all the time without taking a step back? Are we selfish? All good questions sadly I can’t answer for the whole of mankind. Science is moving on in huge leaps now not the fairy steps we saw in the 50’s and 60’s. Other reports suggest the LHC could ‘accidently’ create a black hole which would, rather annoyingly, vacuum most of our solar system into it destroying most if not all of the life therein! Something to look forward to wouldn’t you agree..?

If something could be this devastating do we not think a global online vote would be the way to decide whether or not it gets built? After all its tax payers cash, I don’t really want to play Half Life for real…