They're already here.
Sounds like a global warmingdoom and gloom scenario that gives way to much credit to humans to me.
We’ve already seen worse than this thing could create.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-energy_cosmic_ray
Uberhype. The scientists are mainly concerned that their hugh and expensive magnets do not self-destruct.
Yay! The world’s going to end! Now I can tell National City where they can stick their mortgage payments!
Black holes?
Sit down Bill Clinton, it ain’t what you’re thinking.
“Smashing atoms together with this much energy may just cause a bigger bang than they or we are ready for.”
Not to worry — all they’ll hear is a snap, crackle and pop.
To paraphrase Neil Peart, “All the brightest boys, Play with the biggest toys, More than they bargained for...”
See post #13 ....I don’t think the energy of any particles to be generated approaches what has been observed in the WILD!
‘The resulting collisions are expected to release matter similar to that present at the “Big Bang” that created the universe.’
Bad assumption. They don’t know if there was an event like the “big bang” or what matter was like at the supposed event.
Well, can you tell me if this sort of collision (at this energy level of the LHC but with greater magnetic confinements) is occurring in nature, perhaps inside stars, which would seem to indicate something, if such stars do not implode due to the collisions. And then there’s the question of ‘at what confinement can the collisions be kept from “growing”’ a black hole?’
They're already here.
I have a pet theory about why we have not detected/encountered any extraterrestial beings:
All intelligent/sentient species go through roughly the same process of scientific discovery, eventually getting to a point amounting to “what happens if I press this button...” and the entire planet evaporates, happening before the species achieves self-propogating interplanetary/stellar travel.
Recall the bets taken on whether the first H-bomb detonation would set the Earth on fire.
If it’s the only way to stop the Islamo-fascists once and for all then it will be simply the ultimate “suicide bomb”..... /s
I’m sorry but just how does a court in Hawaii have any jurisdiction in a science experiment in Geneva Switzerland? When did lawyers and the courts become all encompassing?
Weird article. It started off talking about CERN, black holes and strangelets. Then it inexplicably degenerated into a discussion of hi-tech auctions and other tech industry news. Did a strangelet eat the author’s brain?
This is the same argument that was made before nuclear tests were done in 1945.
The earth is already being bombarded by cosmic rays that are too powerful for us to measure. If Wagner's arguments are correct, the earth could never have formed. Nor any other object in our solar system.