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Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World
An anonymous reader writes "Most people are aware of the recent articles contending that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN might destroy the world. While most scientists have no such concerns, a recent preprint released to arxiv systematically dismantles the notion. The gist of the argument is this: Everything that will be created at the LHC is already being created by cosmic rays. If a black hole created by the LHC is interactive enough to destroy the world within the lifetime of the sun, similar black holes are already being created by cosmic rays. Such black holes would be stopped by dense cosmic objects (neutron stars and white dwarfs). A black hole stopped in one of these objects would eventually absorb it. We see sufficiently old neutron stars in the sky, thus any black hole that could be created at the LHC, even if it is stable, would have no effect on the earth on any meaningful timescale."
Guess I now have to get back to my TPS report.
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Ppl should really stop this crazy insane waste of time and resources into this kind of argumentations. We have much more important stuff to care about, we are turning the world into a police state and none seems to care. They just care about 'man made black hole' just the idea is a nosense, did they ever realized we have never seen this type of object in any less than thousands(1600 if confirmed) light-years distance? we have no clue about these objects functioning in reality, not to mention the idea that might be existing tiny scale version of black hole, that's just a totally unproven theory. What a waste... take a look about things that matters plz.. my2cnts
if that happens I am so pushing for one of these to be built in Washington DC or Los Angeles I am not sure which coast is dirtier.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.