Concern Over Creating Black Holes
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Maria Williams writes to tell us about worry surrounding the impending startup of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Some fear that the device, in creating mini black holes, could jeopardize Life As We Know It. While the tiny black holes should evaporate quickly — throwing off so-called Hawking radiation that can be detected — CERN software developer Ran Livneh reminds us that "Any physicist will tell you that there is no way to prove that generated black holes will decay." The LHC site assures us there's nothing to worry about. The flap is reminiscent of the time the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider went live. The worry then was that "negative strangelets" could gobble up the world.
Concern Over Creating Black Holes
Concern Over Creating Black Holes
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It might be a nice chance to test some theories out though.
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It might be a nice chance to test some theories out though.
that's just great... like we didn't need something else that could wipe us out
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