Originally Posted by Fazor

LHC has just a slightly better chance of forming a black hole than microwaving a frozen burrito does. When they talk about the "chance" of it happening, it's easy to take that term out of context. It's the same way that other quantum phenomenon give us a chance of instantly appearing at the other side of the universe, yet in all the years of human existance no one has ever recorded a case of anything "warping out". Because science strives for accuracy, they will note this "chance", but it doesn't mean it's a good chance.

I'm getting tired of people latching on to the word and running around spouting doomsday prophecies. Most, if not all, of the people who are worried about this and are protesting the LHC do not even know what it is, much less what it does. I read a headline today that said some of the operations people over there are now recieving death threats if they continue to move towards these experiments. It's frustraiting to see over-hyped, under informed individuals interfering with one of the greatest achievements of this century.

Bah.