Earth doomed by Haldron collider?

[Prpl_Mage]

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug07/0,4670,SwitzerlandParticleCollider,00.html

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html

Well well, someone figured it was a good idea to create a black hole on earth... A 17 mile particle accelerator tube that will create these cosmic rays, it cost a fortune and they might create a black hole? Am I the only one having doubt if it's safe to do?

Well, I hope I'm wrong or the world will slowly dissappear on tuesday... Would be a shame.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

...Niiice. Can't wait.

[Dragonium]

Oh God, Large Hadron Collider stuff again.

It's meant to give a small simulation of the Big Bang. It's not going to destroy the Earth. Even if it does make a black hole, it would be so small that it would probably be able to swallow a sock at most, and it would decay within seconds. I read somewhere that even if the Sun were to suddenly turn into a black hole, we'd still be able to orbit it. It's pretty harmless. At the worst it'll destroy France and Switzerland. Win-win.

The press is full of bull. It's really nothing to be worried about, but because there is an infinitesimally small chance that it might do something dangerous, the media blew it way out of proportion. It has more chance of turning the sky into rainbow patterns and summoning dinosaurs with hats.

Sorry to rage, but I've had too much of people bawwing about it.

ITP: Facts.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

Yeah, I don't watch TV, so I didn't hear about it. Pretty much figured it was bullshit though.

[Moosetroop11]

Anyone who thinks that this experiment will be that dangerous is seriously underestimating the amount of planning that these scientists have had to do.

I mean... An experiment that costly can't afford to go wrong. This thing will have been planned down to a ridiculous amount of detail.

The best part about me and Stu's posts is that if we're wrong, you won't be able to throw it in our faces :p

[Prpl_Mage]

I guess you're right. I could live without France if it fails. It's just that I hope they are right about the black hole that might appear won't be able to grow.

But what if it does? That's my worry. They can't be certain since it's the first time they're doing it. And it would feel kinda lame if the black hole would grow and devour our nice planet. 
Would've expected a nuclear war or enviromental disaster to take us out and not some scientists trying to recreate big bang...

[coasterkrazy]

I have an idea. Since we're all on different parts of the globe, we should make sure everyone in different areas posts here on Tuesday. I will be the northeastern US representative.

[Dragonium]

I guess you're right. I could live without France if it fails. It's just that I hope they are right about the black hole that might appear won't be able to grow.

But what if it does? That's my worry. They can't be certain since it's the first time they're doing it. And it would feel kinda lame if the black hole would grow and devour our nice planet. 

A black hole is formed when a large object collapses in on itself. If the object is big or heavy enough, it'll collapse into something so dense it basically has infinite gravity. Generally this'll only happen if the object is freaking huge, like double the size of our Sun. There is no massive object being used in the LHC, just air particles and such. Not even the LHC is big enough to form a black hole if something goes wrong. Therefore, a black hole cannot be formed, and even if it did, it'll be tiny. Stupidly tiny.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I do A-Level Physics.

[Archem]

So what?

[zuhane]

Owned.









Earth-wise.

[Moosetroop11]

:p They're not even going to be thinking about the destruction of the world, Lucas. They'll make sure it goes perfectly so that they get results before their equipment breaks.

[boozer]

I saw a program on this today and trust me they know hat they ae doing, Do you acually think they would allow them to do an exeriment that would wipe out man kind and the planet, i highly doubt it

[Razor]

As much as we'd all like to entertain the idea of the world's destruction to science, the probability of anything happening is so infinitesimally small that any sources stating that something WILL happen is just a load of alarmist propaganda.

YAY LONG SENTENCE

[ZeroKirbyX]

I'm tired of the Collider doomsday stuff. The odds are so abysmally small that it doesn't matter. Black holes are STILL purely theoretical, so the odds of theoretically creating a theoretical anomaly is ridiculous.

[A Forgotten Legend]

I have an idea. Since we're all on different parts of the globe, we should make sure everyone in different areas posts here on Tuesday. I will be the northeastern US representative.

Why do we have to live in the same area?

(Don't we live in the same state? I don't remember...)

Oh well.  I'm kinda in the same boat as prpl. I guess