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Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns"
David Shiga writes "If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring — forming a microscopic 'black Saturn'. This could happen if extra dimensions exist, as string theory suggests, and if they are large enough." An evocative excerpt from the article: "...there is an outside chance that in a few years in a tunnel near Geneva, physicists will make a black hole far smaller than a proton and circled by a squashed four-dimensional black doughnut."
Geez, you guys need to relax. I'm not saying it's likely. I'm not even saying it's got even a .001% chance of happening. But to be so brazen as to say we absolutely KNOW what won't happen in something like this is simply arrogance. You're right... All the science currently points to the idea that it won't happen and it very likely won't. But to say that it absolutely won't is just stupid.