The largest particle accelerator in the world was switched on for the very first time on September 10th and the hullabaloo that preceded it culminated with a suicide in India. Cataclysmists the world over believed that the Large Hadron Collider would mark the end of the world. One of the beliefs was that the device would create a black hole that would ultimately swallow the earth. Scientists who addressed this claim declared the odds at a million to one that this would happen. The fact that they addressed the possibility with any odds at all doesn’t bode well with the global community and gives rise to the notion that nobody knows what will happen when they begin their particle smashing tests in earnest.
The cost of building the LHC has been pegged at 4.1 billion dollars, almost four times the original budget, and it took 14 years to build it.
The possibility of an unforeseen catastrophic event has not been addressed other than by enquirers who ask the question, what if?
One headline trumpeted, ‘they turned it on and the world didn’t end, yet’.
The Large Hadron Collider was created to either prove or disprove The Big Bang theory and while they’re doing it we will be messing with the unknown. Let’s hope for a pleasant surprise instead of waking up one future morning to find we’re all dead and don’t know why.
Update: Hadron Shut Down
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basically this is dumb. the idea that particle collision can yield the mass of a star collapsing is insane. To create a black hole takes a total inversion of mass from decay to absorbtion, which requires massive amounts of energy, not available in a tiny particle collider. The real purpose of the CERN research is to identify particle gravity which is a breakthrough.