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Story Ideas – World Without End, Amen?
By Deb Gallardo
As I’ve mentioned on numerous occasions, I have a child-of-the-sixties’ fascination for NASA and its many-pronged approach to space science. This week they reported on an interesting phenomenon. Here’s an excerpt:
The Day the World Didn’t End
Here’s what didn’t happen on Sept. 10th:
The world did not end. Switching on the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic black hole. And that black hole did not start rapidly sucking in surrounding matter faster and faster until it devoured the Earth, as sensationalist news reports had suggested it might.
Story idea take away:
After you read the entire article speculate what might have occurred if the particle accelerator had, in fact, triggered a microscopic black hole. Search the internet on other people’s speculation that brought about the “end of the world” fears. Then use your imagination to construct a story in which, perhaps, it seemed nothing happened, when in fact a chain of events were set in motion that would affect life on earth for generations. This one’s a juicy one, so enjoy!
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