Monday, March 31, 2008
Not-lanta Least reassuring reassurance ever
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Two men have filed suit in federal court in Hawaii to stop a giant particle accelerator in Switzerland from starting up this summer. They're concerned the accelerator might create a black hole that will swallow up Earth.
The science discussed in the story is beyond my grasp, but I do know that the following sentence doesn't reassure me at all:
Lisa Randall, a Harvard physicist whose work helped fuel the speculation about black holes at the collider, pointed out in a paper last year that black holes would probably not be produced at the collider after all, although other effects of so-called quantum gravity might appear.
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