Why are you smiling, Warren? The quotes you just posted PROVED YOU ARE WRONG!
I find it truly astounding that you could post them with a straight face as though they were
evidence that CERN could be dangerous...
When in fact, they prove that CERN is 100% harmless.
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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
I thought you all might be interested in Phil Plait's comments on the [complete lack of] danger of the Long Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
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Warren: 1. if string theory is correct, then they could create miniblack holes.
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Phil: Well, there are a lot of different ways of looking at it. One is that according to the theory, 2. if there are eleven dimensions, and things work out just right--and and and--you might create these tiny, little black holes. And by tiny I mean far smaller than even a subatomic particle.
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Originally Posted by Phil Plait
They wouldn't be able to hold themselves together because of this phenomenon called "Hawking radiation" ...and these things would just basically evaporate instantly.
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Originally Posted by Phil Plait
3. if they don't evaporate--now remember every time I say "even if", we're taking another step into probabilities here--but even if they don't evaporate, they're so tiny that they could fall right through the Earth and sit in the center of the Earth and 4. never encounter a subatomic particle close enough to be able to swallow it. So they would actually never grow.
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Originally Posted by Phil Plait
And so when you go through all these things, and also the fact that even 5. if you did create a black hole, because of the way particle streams are smashing into each other in the collider, basically the velocity that would be given to this black hole would be enough for it to basically leave the Earth. And so it wouldn't even be able to fall to the center of the Earth.
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To summarize:
CERN cannot create a Dangerous Planet Eating Black Hole because:
1. Chances are CERN won't be capable of making a black hole of any kind due to hardware limitations..
2. BUT may be able to create a particle-sized black hole IF string theory is correct.
3. The infinitesimally small black hole will probably evaporate through Hawking Radiation, in the unlikely event it is created.
4. The size of the hole makes it comparable to a single star compared to an entire galaxy (a single particle compared to the hundreds of billions of particles that make up an object). A star cannot draw the rest of the galaxy in with its gravity because the distances between stars are simply too staggeringly high. By the same token, a single particle can not destroy a macro-object with hundreds of billions of particles.
Thus, the mini black hole never gets any larger.
5. It's highly probable that most or all black holes that could be created by a particle collider would be moving so quickly upon creation that they'll be flung off the Earth entirely.
In short...
Large Hadron Colliders a DANGER??
Not at all.
You're full of it, Warren.