Earth 'not at risk' from collider

[Cliphead]

Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.

The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.

Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.

But the report, issued the European Organization for Nuclear Research, says there is "no conceivable danger".

So that's alright then...

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[scooterscot]

Have had similar thoughts about this accelerator over the past few years. How can the prove nothing unwanted will happen when the whole point of the experiment is to look for the unknown!?

I think everyone on the planet should have a say if they should throw the switch.

[RichardCranium]

The last time someone built one of these it produced not a black hole but a strange quark.

That bimbled its way down to the centre of the planet but did not, as predicted by the loonies, gobble up the planet but instead caused it to fragment.

But that was a long time ago and those fragments are now called the asteroid belt.

HTH

[NickFitz]

The last time someone built one of these it produced not a black hole but a strange quark.

That bimbled its way down to the centre of the planet but did not, as predicted by the loonies, gobble up the planet but instead caused it to fragment.

But that was a long time ago and those fragments are now called the asteroid belt.

HTH

That's all right then

When they were researching the atomic bomb, the scientists were (a couple of years before it happened) seriously worried that they might accidentally burn up the Earth's atmosphere.

In fact Hitler, having read a report on the projected feasibility of constructing a fission weapon and the possible risks entailed, explicitly stated in a handwritten note that he did not want to be remembered by history as having caused such a catastrophe, thereby missing the point somewhat

OK, I made up the very last bit of the previous paragraph, but Hitler did express concern, in a handwritten note, over the possibility that such a weapon might trigger such a result

Meanwhile, in the UK and US, the experimental physicists had done the calculations and worked out that it wouldn't happen.

I daresay the experimental physicists involved in this project have made similar calculations - they probably also have spouses, children and big shiny motor cars that they don't want to see annihilated

[Churchill]

How will the world end?

Not with a bang but a "What the **** was that?"...

[VectraMan]

At least if they do destroy the earth the end will be quick.

[Churchill]

At least if they do destroy the earth the end will be quick.

How quick is quick?

Slow enough for an "Ow, that hurts!" or merely an "oh fu..."?

[Moscow Mule]

At least if they do destroy the earth the end will be quick.

It'll be the best roller-coaster you've ever been on - as you're sucked into the event horizon...

[DS23]

It'll be the best roller-coaster you've ever been on - as you're sucked into the event horizon...

they always have height restrictions on those things so at least the kids will be alright.

[VectraMan]

How quick is quick?

Slow enough for an "Ow, that hurts!" or merely an "oh fu..."?

I imagine it'll be reality winking out in a microsecond.

I remember reading that if you went feet first into a black hole, the gravity ramps up so quickly that your legs would have been stretched out several miles long before your upper body experienced any gravity. Which would be nice.