Turns out that the Earth is not in danger of being swallowed up by a precision engineered, man-made black hole that stinks of exotic cheese and Gauloise cigarettes.
That's right, the BBC says that the Large Hadron Collider opening soon on the Swiss-French border won't kill us all.
"Critics have previously raised concerns that the production of weird hypothetical particles called strangelets in the LHC could trigger the mass conversion of nuclei in ordinary atoms into more strange matter - transforming the Earth into a hot, dead lump."
At least it'll probably be a dry heat, right? But it's okay, because the reality is that there's no conceivable danger that it'll happen. In the words of the report:
"Over the past billions of years, nature has already generated on Earth as many collisions as about a million LHC experiments - and the planet still exists."
So there.
I love this stuff.
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2 comments:
You seem to be preoccupied, or dare I say, occupied, with the world coming to an end.
I'm just wondering, would you still get a swim in the day before it happened?
well . . . there's still global warming . . .
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