Quote from: majour ka on September 17, 2008, 17:58:44
Now ive never believed any of this 2012 palaver...but if you have seen the media talking about the experiments that are being carried out in Switzerland. The short storie is scientists in USA have tried to get it stopped as they belive it could create a black hole.., it was all over the british paper last wednesday "Will this be the END OF THE WORLD!!??" the intersting thing is...if it does create a black hole it will be tiny and only for a second and will take until december 2012 to build enough energy to create one...however the guys in Florida are saying that it could expand and swallow the earth....food for thought
Read the story again, you've got it all wrong.
The place the experiment is being done in is called CERN, and it's an international project, there are scientists working on it from various countries, including the USA.
The guy you started all this hysteria doesn't have a degree in physics, just a minor. Scientists don't even know if it's actually possible for the LHC to produce micro-black holes, but if they did form, they would dissipate quickly due to hawking radiation.
Basically, it's the physicists saying it's OK against a guy who's not a physicist yelling out it's not OK.
And by the way, if he did say the supposed black hole would build up until december 2012, he pulled that date out of the deep end of his butt because right now there's no way in hell to predict exactly when such black hole would become fatal.