Will the Large Hadron Collider kill us all with black holes?

Question

Anyone hear about this? If not.... http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

It's this HUGE thing on the boarders of Switzerland and France that is supposed to give scientists more of an idea of what happened seconds after the "Big Bang"

It's going to be tested on September 10th and there are many skeptics that believe that this machine (when tested) will create micro black holes. And things called strange matter. Some people believe it will the earth's "doomsday" and the black holes will "devour" the earth. The people building this machine claim that the black holes (if created) will vanish in a nano of a nano second.

I know this sounds like it's coming out of a science fiction novel. But it's 100% true and will be tested sept. 10th. And there will even be a stronger test October 21st.

Answer 1

FOR THE 9TH TIME TODAY, NO!

These black holes are microscopic, they won't do any damage. They don't have enough mass to attract grain of sand, much less suck up Earth.

The big bang experiment is just recreating temperatures and densities that were present at the big bang, and it won't end the world.

YOU WILL BE FINE!

Answer 2

They do plan to try creating micro black holes with the LHC.  These will exist for only a microsecond and will not have the opportunity for anything to get within their event horizon.  They are expected to disappear immediately by Hawking radiation.

Answer 3

People do not realize that it is actually very, very hard to destroy the Earth - especially when you try to do it with a machine like the LHC. Did you know that each beam that they will collide will have the about the amount of energy as a mosquito in flight?

Earth being destroyed by a black hole because of the LHC? Nope, not going to happen - especially as much higher energy collisions are occurring all around us naturally. So far, we have not been sucked into a black hole...

Answer 4

The blackholes will be the sixe of a small marble, if that. They will crush under their own weight instantaneosly, so there is no danger.

Answer 5

So many unknowns in nature, and mankind does not know nature yet, up close and personal and how things manifest into this universe. No they don't. They know about atoms and few things underneath, but they don't know sub processes or the manifestations of matter. How and why.

So, you have every right to question experiments and the outcome. Since mankind doesn't know creation up close and personal.

If blackholes are created and everyone assumes that they will evaporate because Hawking says so, I guess we will be alright(?)

Hard science here? No. Not yet.

What if not a few micro black holes are created, and say perhaps thousands are or millions are? What then? Will they all evaporate? Or will they coalesce into a bigger threat? We can not rule out coalescence. It is natural to involve coalescence.

Answer 6

No one in their right mind wants to die.  So I'm sure the intelligent scientists who constructed the LHC know what they're doing, and it will not kill us.  It's a device meant for research, not death.