They better save the world in the courtroom or we're all doomed

[Winston]

I wish someone would try looking at it from the black hole's point of view.

It can't be much fun being constantly rejected and hated against like that. What have we become? Where's the compassion in which we as a society pride ourselves?

[BeBMan]

While they're examining the situation they also better look if the Vogons are still planning to build that hyperspatial express route

[chequita guevara]

Microscopic black holes are no danger to Earth. The amount of mass such a black hole would have would be no more than the mass originally put into it, meaning it could pass through Earth without even sucking up one single particle.

Strangelets, at this point, are purely theoretical, and hell, everything dies anyway.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Microscopic black holes are no danger to Earth.

My the article doesn't say "microscopic;" it says, "tiny."

[Sirotnikov]

is there any serious scientific evidence that there is a shred of a possibility for such a thing?

it seems to me like a classic science phobia

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
is there any serious scientific evidence that there is a shred of a possibility for such a thing?

No. A black hole can't be any bigger than the mass that goes into it, and at that mass, it would evaporate instantly. Even if it didn't, it would lack the gravity sufficient to pull anything in. The only way it could absorb anything would be direct contact.

Strangelets don't exist, or at least, have never been observed, and if they did exist, would have been observed.

[Riesstiu IV]

They're waiting for you, Gordon, in the test chamber.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
I remember reading a news article that dealt with exactly this same fear (that strange subatomic particles created by a supercollider could give rise to an unstoppable cascade of strange particles, or alternatively create a black hole) back in 1999.

This lawsuit is a bit late, but if what they're saying is true, maybe better late than never.

I only hope they're seeking a legal injunction though. Because frankly the other legal remedies probably won't amount to much if they turn out to be right.

(How do you set a dollar amount for damages when the damages end up turning the Earth into a black hole?)

The 1999 debate was about the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collide

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativ...ong_the_public)

This new debate is about the Large Hadron Collider

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_H...afety_concerns)

Well it's actually the same debate but about a new, more powerful collider.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


My the article doesn't say "microscopic;" it says, "tiny."

There's a big difference. I can work with "tiny". But if you're "micro" I'm afraid even I can't help you

[LordShiva]

Doomsday gap

[Darius871]

Am I the only one more concerned about inadvertently opening a gateway to Hell than about wimpy little black holes?

[LordShiva]

Same thing, as teh documentary film Event Horizon showed

[Blake]

che is right.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Psst, there's a large country located in East Asia that wants to talk to you. Bring your resume

Will funding be sufficient? ... hmm....I suppose it will. A very good idea. Muhahahaha!

[Darius871]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Same thing, as teh documentary film Event Horizon showed

"Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse..."