Are you worried about the Large Hadron Collider?

Question

Have you heard about this c**p? This thing is a physics project that is going to run in Geneva, Switzerland in a couple weeks to try to recreate the big bang theory on a smaller scale. Problem is, there are worries about this experiment creating a black hole and sucking the world in instantly! We would never know! The people who are conducting the experiment have only stated that if black holes are created, they wont be large enough to do any damage. That does not make me to comfy!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

Answer 1

no, i am rather excited about the result. Though i still don't know what is LHC trying to prove

Answer 2

Yes I'm worried that it won't find anything at all.

Answer 3

They might also open up a wormhole, but that too may be too small and last too short of a time to not have any effect.

Who knows what really will result from the experiments at CERN.  I'm really looking forward to seeing the results myself.

Answer 4

No! nothing will happen! no one can create large enough black hole to devour the world! it will only happen if Dr.Octopus, the enemy in the Spiderman 2 is there because he is the only one who can create that black hole like thing....

Answer 5

No. I live in Europe now for 30 years, and have survived some quite many possible ends of the world. From real (Like the potential beginning of a nuclear war) to fictional (Just search for the many doomsday predictions in the last 30 years.)

The LHC can only possibly create small black holes. the conservative estimate for producing black holes by energy alone requires a energy of about 1E16 TeV or 10,000,000,000,000,000 TeV, while the LHC can only produce 14 TeV. The some highly speculative theories suggest that it could already be possible to produce small instable black holes at 1 TeV, and it was already a honor for these theories, that they got included in the safety analysis of the LHC at all. If it is at all able to produce black holes, they are not stable, but will evaporate in a very short time, much shorter as the time it would need to take the direct way out of the LHC accelerator tubes.

The question, if the LHC can produce such black holes is actually very important for science. It would explain why the universe is not full of black holes and why the smallest mass, we observe of a black hole is more than three sun masses. If the energy required is too high, black holes can not be created randomly. If they can be randomly created, there would have to be a mechanism which destroys the black holes (for example Hawking radiation) - simply because there should have to be a much higher number of them then as we can see today.

Answer 6

no...

and if you or those who are worried about it knew anything at all about physics or black holes, you wouldn't be worried either.

they will be microscopic... a black hole can only suck something in so long as that thing is smaller then it's own mass.... a black hole also will dissipate or evaporate over time if it's not in a feeding stage... these things will be microscopic, unable to eat dust even, so they can't grow, and will disappear in less then a second..

end of story.

COULD something unexpected happen that would have negative results? sure.... and fish can also asscend and take over the world and enslave humanity..... is there really any chance of it happening in the real world? no.

Answer 7

I would hardly call the world's most complex scientific experiment ever "c**p". Please try to not believe everything you read on the internet.

Answer 8

a black hole on earth loses energy faster than it can gain energy so would cease to exist after only a few microseconds. a black hole has been on earth before and disappeared after only a few microseconds, nobody died and nobody will die. don't worry, alot of people on here are convinced they are going to die. they are d**k, but who don't seem to be one, you just seem to be concerned. there is no need to worry, a micro black hole on earth is a safe bet. you will live. if you are still worried, watch it take place on the 21st october 2008 (date of first collision). BEST...HORROR...MOVIE...EVER.... :) seriously i know enough about CERN's project to know you will live until 2009 providing you don't get hit but a bus, or a russian...

Answer 9

I'm not worried even a little bit. First of all, we're not going to recreate the Big Bang. To do that would take all the energy in the universe.