Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers

Posted by timothy on Friday November 13, 2009 @01:09AM from the they-don't-even-make-good-nightclubs dept.

astroengine writes "Physicists are getting excited about the possibility of micro-black holes (MBH) being produced by the LHC and an international group of researchers have done the math to see what kind of impact they could have on the Earth. Unfortunately, if you're a megalomaniac looking for your next globe-eating weapon, you can scrub MBHs off your WMD list. If a speedy MBH is produced, flying through our planet, it will only have a few seconds to accrete the mass of a few atoms. It would then be lost to space where it will evaporate. If a slow MBH is produced, dropping into the Earth where it sits for a few billion years, the results are even more boring."

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Re:Lots of speculation. by asliarun · 2009-11-13 01:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Please don't go about shaking our belief systems. We need these uncertainties to keep being fearful of our vengeful gods.
"...I have a constant fear that somethings always near
I have a phobia that someone's always there
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark..."