Just so you all know, it's already been activated and nothing bad has happened.

You must admit, it's very "Asimov".

First thing that popped into my head when I read the article was his positron pump from The Gods Themselves, and the way all the scientists carry on with the experiment, since the potential gains outweight the unlikely losses.

I wonder what he'd think of all this?

if it destroyed the world it would've likely violated several laws of physics.......no scientists would be around to give a shit though

The LHC smashes particles together, creating alot of energy. As this energy expands, there is nothing to fill the space in between, and so anti-matter is made. So yes, they WILL be making black holes, but the black holes will only be on earth for a millionth millionth of a second, and will be the size of other particles. Not exactly the earth-eating sized monstrosity everyone makes it out to be. The only thing that could go wrong is that the particles acccidently split instead, creating a nuke. This would be very bad for the health and safety of the scientists..... and switzerland for that matter. Not to mention that this is a $10 billion science fair experiment..... Remember, they are using Hydrogen, so it could be a hydrogen bomb. But that is very unlikely, as they are only using the protons from hydrogen.... Not an actual hydrogen molecule. I read somewhere that they described it something like this:

"Its like throwing billions of wind-up watches at each other, so that they smash into their many componants, and then observing the broken parts on the ground to try and understand how the watch works"

Another thing that MAY go wrong is that they 'lose' the mini black hole they created. If they make it, and it is unexpectidly stable, it may not just 'dissapear'..... and will be drawn in by earths gravity and sink to the core of the earth...... slowly eating away at the core. But remember, its the size of atoms.... so it wouldnt exactly be eating very much of the earth....

yes, retarded emo monkeys are going to kill us all

Well, they turned it on, but haven't smashed anything yet, so the black hole isn't really possible until next month when the "real" stuff starts. Not that I think anything will happen, but there's still a reason to be scared.

And don't forget 2012 is right down the road. There are plenty of apocalyptic scenarios you have no control over. So relax.

I shall go tell all my friends.

Thank you.

*weeps with joy*

If a black hole does occur, at least we would all be dead before we knew what happened.

You get second prize, the Internet for an hour

THNX! I'll drink to that

I don't remember where I saw it, but Sephen Hawkings, world's greatest physicist, says that it won't make a black hole....

Sorry to spoil the fun.

Plus, a 100 solar-mass sun explodes = black hole.  I'm pretty sure that 2 particles aren't going to do it...