Large Hadron Collider - 10 September 2008

[Dennis]

You almost sound like an astrophysicist there Mike.
But the fact is that neither you, nor HaZe, nor anybody else who replied in this topic is one. Therefore, all we can do is listen to the people who actually do have knowledge about this and use our own reasoning and logical thinking to form our opinions. But who are we to laugh about the hypotheses of the opposing scientists? Are we well enough informed to make statements like "nothing will happen"? No, we're not...

Fact is, they _will_ create small black holes. And although these small black holes will probably die within nanoseconds of their birth, this remains a completely new and untested frontier of which no actual knowledge exists, only theoretical thinking and theses.

Do I think black holes will form and devour the earth? No. There are only a very small group of scientists who believe something like that might happen. And most of their thinking is based on some kind of chaos theory.
Most scientists, either involved with this project or not, say that it's completely safe and no unusual/uncontrollable stuff will happen.
But although the odds are several billion to 1, the possibility still exists...

[Mike]

For those of you who were looking forward to the world ending, you'll have to wait a little longer. Atom smashing doesn't start until later in the year. 

[Badeend]

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Fact is, they _will_ create small black holes. And although these small black holes will probably die within nanoseconds of their birth, this remains a completely new and untested frontier of which no actual knowledge exists, only theoretical thinking and theses.

Do I think black holes will form and devour the earth? No. There are only a very small group of scientists who believe something like that might happen. And most of their thinking is based on some kind of chaos theory.
Most scientists, either involved with this project or not, say that it's completely safe and no unusual/uncontrollable stuff will happen.
But although the odds are several billion to 1, the possibility still exists...

[inserts low voice]
More... Tonight on Discovery Channel
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[Erin]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556999/?GT1=43001

http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=280826

Just for you TEF 

[HaZe]

the scientist that claims the earth will be swallowed seems psychotic if you watch the vid in that article, lol. i'm not worried at all, and this seems like it could be pretty cool.

[Peter]

Death smiles upon us all. It's not like anything will happen, and even if it does, you'd be able to tell others that you died because you got sucked in a black hole. Then again, some of you live in the United States, you'd slowly see the earth, the water and everything else disappear until it sucks you in as well, which, frankly, would be quite worrying.

Really, it's just a test. Safety regulations are really tight for these kind of experiments, most of the negative blabbering are just coming from depressed scientists who didn't get any funding to make one of these things themselfes. Just don't worry, the chances of a meteor falling right on your head, killing you on impact, are way larger than this thing sucking you in some black hole.

[Maddolis]

If scientists could create the effect of an object hundreds of times heavier than the earth collapsing in on itself, then we wouldn't have to worry about global warming, water scarcity or anything else short of blowing each other up with nuclear weapons.

[Mike]

That's just it, it can't be heavier than Earth. It can only be as heavy as the particles it's made of (think a few milligrams, or a few thousand atoms, at most.)

[Gang_Lord]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39p...re=related

[James]

The main part of they're experiment does not happen until the 21st of October, if anything went wrong so far you would of died already. Congratulations your alive.