Let's make a black hole underneath Europe!

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CNN.com By Elizabeth Landau

[INDENT]Deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, the world’s largest particle accelerator complex will explore the world on smaller scales than any human invention has explored before.

[/INDENT] It’s called The Large Hadron Collider. Some people think it’ll help reveal the universe’s secrets, other’s think it’ll cause the end of the world as we know it when they use it in the next several months.

Oh cool…wait what?

[INDENT] Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them — including the whole Earth. Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, alleging safety concerns regarding black holes and other phenomena that could theoretically emerge.

Although physicists acknowledge that the collider could, in theory, create small black holes, they say they do not pose any risk. A study released Friday by CERN scientists explains that any black hole created would be tiny, and would not have enough energy to stick around very long before dissolving. Five collider collaborators who did not pen the report independently told CNN there would be no danger from potential black holes.

[/INDENT] Black hole. Suck the earth into it. Hmm.

[INDENT]“You’re talking about such incredible power inside both the accelerator and detectors that you never really know until you turn it all on what’s going to happen,” he said.

[/INDENT] I’m all for science, really I am, but turning it on all the way to see what happens, good or bad, without the star ship Enterprise with Captain Picard and his crew waiting to fix what fucks up, makes me a little nervous.

SnowDragon 16 years ago
I would have to agree with you there Roz.....Hmmm I wonder if it could only suck up France???
Lillaanya 16 years ago
SnowDragon;100210
I would have to agree with you there Roz.....Hmmm I wonder if it could only suck up France???


That would teach them to make black holes /nod
Vishanti 16 years ago
SnowDragon;100210
Hmmm I wonder if it could only suck up France???
That would require it to suck harder than France.

/stereotypical American comment
tamaelia 16 years ago
I LOL'd Vish
Verileah 16 years ago
*grumbles* they were supposed to build one of these out in TX and it sort of fell apart. Fucking France *kicks*. Why can't we have a candidate who is all about science and discovery?
Adiene 16 years ago
They need to make one that would just suck up all the worlds fucktards ..... and france .. wait what o.o
Vishanti 16 years ago
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/17/scilhc117.xml

That last one makes me mad...
Halo conjures visions of radiant beauty, power and wisdom. The circle of light reflects the collider's form; it is a crowning achievement of science and engineering. It also gives more than a nod to the experiment's importance to religious debate.

The name Halo was by far the most popular entry. The winner was chosen at random from the hundreds of people who suggested it; Aaron Borges of Rhode Island, USA, who wins £500 ($892) .
I can't figure out if it's journalistic negligence or just plain ignorance that the article makes no mention of the video game. Out of the reportedly hundreds of entries for that name, do they really think people are going to think of "visions of radiant beauty, power, and wisdom?" Fuck, it gives more of a nod to the destructive power of the video game weapon/world than it does to religious debates about the sanctity of the unknown.
Lessa 16 years ago
NO!!!.. not to 50!!!

Sorry.. its what comes to mind when I see this

“You’re talking about such incredible power inside both the accelerator and detectors that you never really know until you turn it all on what’s going to happen,” he said.


I’m all for science, really I am, but turning it on all the way to see what happens


*sigh* I know ima dork ><
the---virus 16 years ago
I don't think anything bad will happen, and im pretty sure they placed it somewhere quite safe. Maybe only the scientists would get sucked up in their own black holes, but hey: they created them.

Otherwise i think it won't be of any danger to people.
Lessa 16 years ago
hehe I agree.. and if not.. maybe itll suck us someplace cool!