Is the Large Hadron Collider going to destroy the earth?

Question

When the LHC is "mobilized" nest Wednesday, is there a chance a stray black hole could develop and destroy our earth?

Answer 1

Just go away... please!

Answer 2

NO

the black holes will be microscopic

their gravitational field will be small

they will evaporate rapidly

there is nothing to worry about

Answer 3

So what if it does?

Answer 4

ROFL.

No.

Answer 5

Is there any chance? Yes. There's a chance of everything. But realistically, the probability of the LHC destroying the Earth is very small. Cosmic rays have been producing the same energy levels in the upper atmosphere for eons, and so far the Earth is still very much in existence. If we manage to destroy ourselves through careless use of advanced technology, it's more likely to be nanotechnology, genetically engineered diseases or just plain good old nuclear armageddon...but not microscopic black holes.

Answer 6

We already tested LHC, and nothing happened to us.  

Answer 7

The LHC smashes little bits of stuff together, that's all.  This experiment has been going on naturally since the Earth was formed.  High energy cosmic rays, which are typically atoms that have their electrons stripped off, hit the Earth all the time.  In fact, several have passed through your body while you read this.  And the highest energy cosmic rays are much more energetic than the LHC could accomplish ever.  And, some of these cosmic rays hit atoms of the Earth head on.  So if the LHC can create a black hole or some other effect, it has to be harmless.  The Earth is still here after billions of years of such things.

Answer 8

Anyone up for beer next Thursday?

Answer 9

Yes, it will create micro black holes, but the dangers are, that the LHC will be constantly streaming particles at nearly the speed of light during the tests, and this will be an eat-and-grow environment for a micro black hole to soon enough turn into a planet destroying black hole.

Hadrons are highly common, they are a basic set of strong-nuclear-force particles (nucleons), which are protons and neutrons, which even you and I are made out of. Basically, matter. But these will be smashed up into other and smaller subatomic particles, even those we haven't seen before.

With greater studies on how time warps around the forces of atoms, and the characteristics of anti-matter, anti-energy, dark-matter, dark-energy, and even gravitons. Including the Higgs mechanism exploration. Basically, finding the 'building blocks', which were once existent, according to the 'Standard Model' of the universe, when first existed, when it came from the big bang.

We also fear a bosenova, large enough to destroy the facility, leading in other security in-stabilities.

Another risk is the destruction of space time, with the capability of the experiment causing the whole of space (or less) and time (possibly) to rip itself completely apart.

The black hole theory may explain why several religions say that, and prophetically Hadron will cause the end of the universe, will re-create it, but how, well several theories suggest, the matter that came from the big bang, came from the last universe collapsing on itself, and opening up again, in a big bang, in an apparent 'loop'.

It may not be the same universe, over and over again, but the same matter might be re-used. Time doesn't necessarily get eaten up.

But as we have explored, when black holes cannot feed no more, they release their matter and energy in a large explosion, of which normally suits a hypernova.

However I do not believe the events to happen on a universal, let alone, galactic scale, but a solar system / planetary scale may be feasible. That is, if the experiment does not fail.

Answer 10

Since nobody can know the future, I can only guess.  I guess that if the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed by ignorant religious zealots. Forgive the redundant redundancy.