Large Hadron Collider - doom!

[KackAttack]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342854,00.html

Not included among the documents is Wagner's own indictment last month on identity-theft charges tied to an ongoing legal battle over a botanical garden on the Big Island of Hawaii

Seriously, if you believe that the Earth is going to be engulfed by newly created particles from the Hadron Collider - now might be the time to give up the lawsuit against building the botanical garden in Hawaii?

[AtW]

I personally think it is a very big risk and they should not be allowed to do these things: not until after the humans populate far away star systems such things can be attempted, the risk might be too low, but the consequences might be way too high and if it all blows up then we won't even be able to punish those big heads adequately.

[KackAttack]

Professor Frank Close (Professor of Physics at Oxford University, England) has stated, with regards to (dangerous) strangelets being created in a particle accelerator, and destroying the earth, that the 'chance of this happening is like you winning the major prize on the lottery 3 weeks in succession; the problem is that people believe it is possible to win the lottery 3 weeks in succession'

Personally, I would like the world to end if Michael Carroll won the lottery three weeks in a row.

[Diver]

I personally think it is a very big risk and they should not be allowed to do these things: not until after the humans populate far away star systems such things can be attempted, the risk might be too low, but the consequences might be way too high and if it all blows up then we won't even be able to punish those big heads adequately.

No problem, the radiation escaping over the event horizon of the black hole would kill us all slowly and painfully, long before we were sucked in.

[chef]

No problem, the radiation escaping over the event horizon of the black hole would kill us all slowly and painfully, long before we were sucked in.

i hate it when that happens, really makes for a bad day..

[BrilloPad]

But what will it mean for house prices?

[Diver]

But what will it mean for house prices?

It will drag the property market down

[PAH]

Yet another ape thinking we have the power of gods.

He must be related to those that think we have more control over the Earth's climate than the Sun.

[NotAllThere]

No problem, the radiation escaping over the event horizon of the black hole would kill us all slowly and painfully, long before we were sucked in.

The radiation isn't escaping over the event horizon; most of it is caused by photon emission caused by the acceleration of charged particles as they are sucked into the black hole.

Some radiation comes from Hawkings radiation, which causes black hole evaporation. Unless the black hole is rotating, the contribution of Hawkings radiation to the overall radiation levels is negligible.

[Diver]

The radiation isn't escaping over the event horizon; most of it is caused by photon emission caused by the acceleration of charged particles as they are sucked into the black hole.

Some radiation comes from Hawkings radiation, which causes black hole evaporation. Unless the black hole is rotating, the contribution of Hawkings radiation to the overall radiation levels is negligible.

Googling pedant