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Originally Posted by AlienQ
I am willing to bet we have a pretty good chance of going extinct from this thing.
Seriously.
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nah
This makes a lot of sense for me
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The same concerns and attempts to sue (by the same man in fact) happened at the last new energy scale heavy ion collider. I think the scaremongering is dangerous. It encourages people to be paranoid and gives science a bad name! There are some very complex and obscure arguments surrounding this topic, but rest assured, we are NOT going to destroy the planet, and we are not blowing anything up! IF we made a mini black hole (extremely unlikely) we would have trouble even knowing it was there. It would evaporate almost instantaneously, and even if not (if you are the kind of scientist that doesnt believe in energy conservation and think hawking radiation is wrong) then it will be smaller than a nucleus and will never be able to grow in size because its schwartzchild radius wont stretch to any matter! There's a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy sitting tight and doing nothing. The whole point of them is that they are massive. A 1 nucleus big mini-black hole is basically an oxymoron. Now please stop worrying!
And I am here in Geneva working on ALICE, one of the 4 experiments. "Switch on" isn't as hard and fast as pressing A BIG red button, unfortunately. But anyway I am not worried. See you all next week! ;-)