World to End Because of Large Hardron Colider?

Question

the lhc is going to be turned on wednesday People say Earths going to emplode on its self?

Answer 1

Copy and pasted from another answer that I gave since I don't feel like typing it out for the umpteenth time:

When the LHC, two beams of protons will go around and around a huge ring, gaining energy with each lap. When they reach enough energy, they will collide with each other and for a split second, there will be a shower of particles that may give us an idea what the Universe was like right after the Big Bang. That's all it does. It will create a shower of particles so small and for such a short time that HUGE detectors stories and stories tall were built to see them.

But remember, colliding two particles is VERY different than colliding all the matter in the Universe. The Large Hadron Collider is doing nothing new. The same thing has been going on naturally for years and years in the form of cosmic rays with much higher energies than the LHC. We have not turned into a black hole yet, so why would the LHC change that?

We know two things for certain:

* It's unlikely that black holes will be created by the LHC

* If black holes ARE created, they will be quantum black holes that will exist for about a nano-nano-nano second before evaporating, and would not even be able to suck up a proton.

We're safe. :)

Answer 2

If it does, you won't even notice. A painless death, much better than what you're likely to experience if you live into old age.

Go EuroScience!

Answer 3

This particle accelerator will be switched on next week, but the real high powered stuff won't happen for another couple months.  Some say it could create a black hole which would destroy the Earth.  However, if such a black hole could be created, it won't last long enough to swallow material in the lab, much less outside the lab.

The LHC gets a particle moving at high energy and smashes it into another. That's all it does.

But this experiment has been going on here on Earth since the Earth formed. High energy cosmic rays, which are typically atoms stripped of their electrons, have energies much, much higher than the LHC can produce. While you've been reading this, several have passed through your body. And sometimes these things do a head on collision with the stuff of the Earth. If the LHC can create a small black hole, then so can cosmic rays. The Earth is still here, so it's safe.

Answer 4

Yes, it will be quick and we'll never know what hit us.

Seriously, the unfounded fear is that anti-matter will start a chain reaction of annihilating matter. They are 99.999999999% sure this won't happen. They feared the same thing when they detonated the first hydrogen bomb at Bikini Island......that the atmosphere it's self might become fusion fuel and start a chain reaction that would turn the entire earth into a bomb. It didn't happen. Whew!!!

Answer 5

Yes, definitely.  Enjoy yourself while you can.

Answer 6

I'm almost 1000% sure this won't happen.

Answer 7

people are stupid

Answer 8

Yeah, that probably wont happen.