Life as we know it will end soon.

[S4 ZippyZoo]

Maria Williams writes to tell us about worry surrounding the impending startup of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Some fear that the device, in creating mini black holes, could jeopardize Life As We Know It. While the tiny black holes should evaporate quickly — throwing off so-called Hawking radiation that can be detected — CERN software developer Ran Livneh reminds us that "Any physicist will tell you that there is no way to prove that generated black holes will decay." The LHC site assures us there's nothing to worry about. The flap is reminiscent of the time the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider went live. The worry then was that "negative strangelets" could gobble up the world.



Taken from Slashdot :rotfl:
This goes well along with the article I was forwarded about how Light causes cancer. *sigh*

[james_ls]

I was reading that on there too....I don't get it....

[S4 ZippyZoo]

Basically the woman is scared that since we cannot scientifically prove that the tiny little discontinuities we are creating in space actually will decay, she's trying to scare us into believing that they're all still there.

Basically that all our little black holes that we are creating are still there and will form a giant black hole over time and suck us all in and destroy the world.

[the mike]

Could be worse. Taco Bell could close down.

[MPowerKai]

We already have things that can wipe us out. I can't remember where but at some university they created Anti-matter, it's only a couple of grams but it could take out Noth America if the containment chamber suddenly decides to fail, god know what other things we have that the government does not want us to know about.

The good part about this is maybe we can start creating stargates now. :)

[BlackBulletTSi]

lol I'll just laugh but thats me and I agree itd be worst to lose taco bell! SPICY CRUNCHWRAP SUPREME FTW!

[james_ls]

Anti-Matter....WTF!!

[HatchSurfer3]

Anti-matter, black holes, stargates, taco bells...AAHH!!!

[Scapegoat]

does this mean gas prices will go down even more??????

[jspek]

kinda like if you dont push the button in lost the world ends? sweet.

[alachua]

Yup, read that as 'CERN's Large Hardon Collider' like three times. The realised Sandra wasn't in here, and I couldn't be reading it right.

-Cliff