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Will the Large Hadron Collider DESTROY EARTH??
The potential for the world's largest atom smasher to destroy Earth is one question weighing on the minds of some lay people as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to go online Wednesday.

Don't worry, say the experts, who are more concerned with whether the 17 mile-long particle accelerator underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, will work as planned and, perhaps, reveal the existence of the so-called God particle.

Some people have suggested that a microscopic black hole, spawned by the powerful crash of subatomic particles racing through the LHC's tunnels, could potentially suck up the Earth.

But physicists say these fears are unfounded. For one, creating a black hole at LHC is extremely unlikely based on the laws of gravity alone, CERN officials say. But even if it did happen, as a few highly speculative theories suggest, the miniscule black hole would be so unstable it would disintegrate immediately before it had time to gobble up any of the matter on Earth.


Hey I'm all for horizon-broadening science but, this thing sounds like the kind of thing this week's villian on Dr. Who would use to take control of the world....before it blows an overlooked fuse and nearly blows up the planet!

darkwave_71 wrote:

Will the Large Hadron Collider [url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080910/sc_livescience/willthelargehadroncolliderdestroyearth]DESTROY EARTH??

It seems not.

I guess I'll have to go back to doing it the old fashioned way.

darkwave_71 wrote:

Just out of interest: What happens to you if you get bitten by a radioactive superhero?

Good ol' CERN always keeping the world on it's toes.

EvilHippyEmperor wrote:

darkwave_71 wrote:

Just out of interest: What happens to you if you get bitten by a radioactive superhero?

You get a fungus and your foot falls off

It hasn't done Mary Jane Watson any harm yet.

EvilHippyEmperor wrote:

I guess I'll have to go back to doing it the old fashioned way.

GASP!! Not...the army of dancing sports mascots!!!

LOL- Darkwave, is your computer hard drive just full of random little movie clips?

I wouldn't worry about it. We can't even get artificial lightening to be as powerful as nature.