Originally Posted by Pippin

Asystem your question and concerns echo mine. The scenarios described in that report do not reflect the conditions of the experiments that will be performed. ie. cosmic rays don't create blackholes, so us mashing heavy ions won't create one. And yes Nightfly please read the report so you see the part where they claim it will be the same energy release of 2 mosquitos colliding, they wrote that not me. Again I don't even pretend to be an expert so don't quote me, however, what we know about blackholes is that they are created by the intense pressure created by gravity in large mass suns. This pressure causes high density masses in the core of the sun causing its collapse as adjacent atoms are pulled further and further towards the interior in a chain reaction. The process is significantly slowed by the tangential acceleration of particles due to rotation. The concern that some have expressed is that should a such a stable high density mass be created it will be in essence a micro -black hole, but that it would not be in the center of the planet, it would be on the exterior and thus moving in concert with the surrounding mass. This could allow it to begin growing while moving towards the earth's core in mutual attraction to the center of mass of the planet. While it would indeed take an extremely long time to "devour" the earth , the effects on the earth's axial rotation would be devastating under this scenario in a much shorter time. I am not personally worried about any doomsday stuff, but like you I read that report and found it to be full of non supporting facts and not reassuring. Did I get that right everyone ? If not, correct me, without flaming me please.