If we end up dead, then we’ll know it works.

(Actually, It’s thanks to fundamental physics that you can exist, atoms can form molecules, gravity works, and all sorts of fun things. Not just TV).

Tiny black holes ‘in space’ don’t have matter nearby to eat to grow big and strong (like their fathers!). But, whatever.

It would be cool if particle accelerators COULD turn you into he Sandman. Then again, ‘Spiderman’ would be a crappy comic if it were about a kid dying of radiation poisoning.

Relax, this sort of phenomena they’re trying to produce happens in space quite frequently and we’re still alive. It will be the same thing just a lot smaller in scale.

There wont be any black holes, there wont be any distortion of space-time continuum and there wont be any plasma storm of biblical proportion.

Chances are we wont even notice they did anything at all and the end result will be a particule that can have it’s mass shaped and density shaped at will by man.

No more problem with ressources, isn’t that cool?

And don’t worry about little black hole, we’re not in a comic book (No, particles accelerators can’t transform you into Sandman)

ok nerd alert….

Personally, I am happy that Europe is building this sort of toy instead of trying to take over the world by attacking our dollar.

And I know plenty about math and physics, people’s assumtions aside.

Of course, I don’t speak for the other posters here, but…

Black holes just creep me out.

(And Stephen Hawking has criticized his own work as wrong before, BTW)

So basically there is only a 10% possibility that a Large Hadron will be ejected into a populated area, where death will be instantaneous. You would not suffer, you would be converted into an ionized plasma within nanoseconds. Those in a 6 km radius of the exit trajectory would be exposed to an effective radiation dose of 25 dental xrays - a lot, but by no means deadly.

So lay off the crazy talk and stay tuned for a new frontier in science: the biggest, baddest man-made black hole known to man!

So y’all can sleep easy with the Professor watching your back.

I applaud the audacity of CERN to devote so much resource to the process of discovery. The United States used to be the center of Science for Science’s Sake. The Government supported academic research and discovery. Now our money and attention is being drawn to different activities.

I would like to believe that CERN’s achievement can inspire us to go further and farther. We can only imagine what the future holds. But if we’re lucky, the future will hold that which we are incapable of imagining.

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays have hit the earth several times (several observed times - with limited instruments capable of detecting only in place since the mid-90’s) with over 10 to the 8th TeV’s.

Since the LHC can only get light weight particles to 14 TeV and heavy particles a few orders less then that, the possibility of causing the end of the world/universe is pretty much nill.

People need to stop watching cheesy SciFi channel flicks and reading Popular (Junk) Science Magazine and actually learn a bit about math and physics.