Comments on: Don't panic: Large Hadron Collider won't spawn voracious black holes

Scientists have presented some evidence the Large Hadron Collider, a massive physics experiment, won't produce mini black holes that could gobble up the Earth.

[stf-sgt-middleton]

hahahaha. it's not even .0001%
there's a 1 in 15,000000000000 chance that a black whole will be created.
Come on guys!
It's just not gonna happen.
This is a great pathway for us!
New Equipment can be built.
Stop thinking of the bad stuff and think of the good.
If you're scared of us dying now, Think of Global warming

[Mr-science]

what you on about this has the potential to destroy the world and you think its good people these days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr-science]

anyways if this did destroy the world, at least people like you wouldn't be around to speak bull ****, so suck on that you ******

[Mr-science]

this whole thing is a piece of bull because we really dont need to wate money on something that might be so easy to do in the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Flt-Sgt-O-S]

we are not wasting money and you can not even spell corectly please learn how to spell and get a IQ over 50 thank you

Flt Sgt O.S

[Flt-Sgt-O-S]

oops i mean correctly

[Mr-science]

shut up S.G>.T O.S who do think you are what makes you so clever

[Flt-Sgt-O-S]

ok guys this large hadron collider is not going to kill us all we are not going to experiance doomsday this is just propagander made by the media . the black holes which may be created are gonna be the size of an atom and the weight of an atom and will decay after a split second and do not have the size or time to sustain their self's and hey even if we did die in a horrible way from black hole you wont know it as we will all be compressed into a singuralrity :)
but we will not all die every one just needs to calm down take a chill pill and listen to the evidence instead of spreading around that we are all gonna die ... this is one of the bigest experimants ever their is nothing to fear at all

[Vess_Goldmane]

and i think (and i am probably wrong) that that singularty will be instantaneousy transported to another incomprehensibl place outside our universe. collapse upon itself then expand and create a new universe.
my idea im probably wrong.

[Pirargo]

Possibly Vess. once we attain Interuniversal travel, i gues we'll find out.

[Flt-Sgt-O-S]

to be honest what ever people say its all a great big rumor :D

[Cam31]

To all those people who are **** scared the world is going to imploadand kill us all.

Why are you still sitting there typing boring baseless comments?

Get of your arse get out there and enjoy what life you have left. Go get drunk or steal a Ferrari.

No one will be able to read your crap tomorrow anyway!

[eyes-open]

To go where no one has gone before.
Those scientist watched lots of Sci-Ficitions films.
Please open your eyes, how about to spend your time and money "first" to solve environment issues, deseases, poverty and many many other issues that are not included in the Sci-Fiction films.

[Vess_Goldmane]

because knowledge is more important

[stf-sgt-middleton]

Shows how much you know love.
what the hell have you been reading?!
>.<

[Flt-Sgt-O-S]

play boy what do you think :D

[stf-sgt-middleton]

We aren't gunna die.
Stop becoming corrupt.
If you let this get to you... all the unintelligent people will become even more of a yob and even more annoying!!!

[kc42]

People have to face the truth, there will always be a chance ( probability ) that something will go wrong or maybe even right. Because we simply don't know, we have to experiment. Its like the first atomic bomb. But I can bet you this, we'll be developing bigger weapons as a result. Will it also improve the life of people on this planet? Now that I won't want to bet on.

[jrstephens]

First off, I am no theoretical physicists; but, I agree that attempting to create a subatomic black hole is stupid. By the very nature of creating such a thing - it is not something that can be contained and the earths gravity should eventually act upon it as it does on everything else. This lends itself to the possibility that this super minute black hole will slowly wind its way downward. On its way, it will continue to occasionally meet up with various stray particles or even entire atoms. With each encounter - it will by its very nature ingest them and by doing so - grow in size and gravitational pull. Intuitively, it makes perfect sense that it will eventually devour the earth from the inside out!

[RobertSandwin]

September 11 should be.
Waste of money.
Waste of energy.
Waste of time.

[acobster]

Look, guys. A black hole is NOT just something that eats everything around it. A black hole is simply something that's really really really really dense (kind of like some of the people who have posted here). It doesn't matter what its mass is; therefore, it doesn't matter what its gravitational attraction is to other things around it--it can still be a black hole. Sure, once a light particle gets sucked into an infintesimally small black hole, it will not escape (though the black hole will decay, per the Hawking Radiation theory). But that tiny black hole will have a real hard time sucking in that light particle to begin with.

In order to overcome the forces that keep a particle from "falling" into another particle and collapsing, an object's gravitational force needs to be enormous--billions of times bigger than anything the LHC can produce--bigger than the LHC itself, in fact. This is because electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces are all a great deal stronger than gravity.

Even if the LHC does produce black holes, they will be too small to do ANYTHING destructive. They won't even have enough force to eat up a single atom.

In other news, the Tunguska event was in 1908 and the common concensus is that it was a comet or a meteor. The trees were not still standing, and many of them had caught fire. Bottom line, something exploded. Black holes don't explode.

[Vess_Goldmane]

we need to right a newspaper together or something to tell people about how we are not gonna all die

[lepracon]

ya know sometimes its better to ask questions, So heres mine.... Since when did we all just know how black holes get formed in the first place? Now this is just my opinion but I think sometimes things happen in scientific experiments that scientists cant really explain so they just say oh well that must be this, Thus giving rise to all sorts of thoughts like creating blackholes that feed and grow off the energy of the things that its sucks in (apparently) A huge black hole would have to be formed out of something equally huge not atomic particles flying around underground. But heres the beauty in all this.... If the world does end tommorow none of us will be around to say i told you so. Sounds good to me.

[dudestatus]

What if the scientists are undercover aliens sent to destroy our planet? ..kidding

We are putting a whole lot of trust into a small group of people though. this is the kind of thing that needs to be done elsewhere. I wish space travel was better so we could give scientists a whole planet to experiment on that isn't ours.

However, this whole science deal has somewhat inspired me to savor life, and hold onto those I'm close to, cause there's really no telling when we all kick the bucket.

[Vess_Goldmane]

you know once this works what we learn will probably help with spae travel

[jameswhelan]

u ******* ***** - if u swiss bastards kils us- u swiss wankas are dead !!!!

im gna get my mum on u u lil priks

thomas palmer - says there is a black hole in between alex sewards legs

[super_ape]

Irrespective of the will it kill us-won't it kill us debate, and the fact that (if it doesn't kill us all) it could reveal a lot of stuff about the origins of the Universe, I still think there would have been better ways to spend that much money. I'm in favour of the advancement of science, but I'm also in favour of trying to solve some of the huge problems which already exist in our societies.

[lonce382]

IDIOTS! why would sensible men create an experiment which could result in the destruction of earth? if there was even a SLIGHT chance they wouldnt do it, why take such risks?

[spookychief]

oh well its fired up now. hey maybe this is how our universe was created some other race made a Gigantic Hadron Collider ( which is naturally larger than ours ) which formed a universe inside there small world which in turn laid the ground work for our world to be formed among millions of others and now we have the chance to do the same for another universe ahahhahahahaha - just some food for thought. oh and there is no god only scientists with the power to kill us all after all least they wouldnt have to pay anyone back :)

[aJanuary]

To those decrying that their assurances are based upon theory, let's take a look at some observable evidence.
To quote Hawkins, "Collisions at these and greater energies occur millions of times a day in the Earth's atmosphere, and nothing terrible happens." So our best observances would tell us that it should be okay.
But there isn't any observed evidence of these collisions creating black holes, it is based on a theory which tries to explain the weakness of gravity relative to the other forces.
Even if black holes were to be created, of which I have read one of the scientists working it giving a 1% chance to, the chances of it having catastrophic consequences are even smaller.

[NJSILVA]

LOL nuts 101, i can see the aliens from simpsons too, looking to earth with that evil laught heheehe.

so,
my opinion is divided so, whatever appends.. our death comes one day.. if its today or +/-26 Oct( most higher charge) let it be.
So, about the $$$ i think thats not the target for them, but as some say, when Phisics discover something new, humanity normaly benifits from that. I hope so.
Cientists are anxious of discovery and some nobels, they must go forward but with ease and care.

[shadowland8]

Why does this kind of crap have to happen right now when I'm only 13 and turning 14 in a month or so. Seriously, I just want to live my life but by the looks of things even if we survive this, there's going to be more and more things that could cause our death. We got global warming, the wars, apparently going to start storing carbon dioxide underground in pipes, strip mining the moon and the Mayan's calender ending at 2012, December the 21st. I mean sure, we could survive all that but what if we don't? Well I guess I better go outside and enjoy every moment of it. Bye.

[stf-sgt-middleton]

Get over it.
You're gonna live your life.
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