Not With a Whimper, But With a Big Bang?

Is this the way the world ends? Tomorrow the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) goes live just outside of Geneva. Details here: Excitement and Fear Abound Over Super Collider


Some people believe this will mark the end of the world:

The concerns are nothing less than a total doomsday scenario. The anti-LHC hysteria was started by Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho, who filed suit in U.S. and European courts to stop the LHC. Their theory is that the LHC will produce micro black holes and "stranglets" that may not decay as rapidly as mainstream physics predicts.

"Any miniature black hole created at rest in a collider would essentially be trapped in Earth's gravitational field, and over seconds to hours, slowly interact and acquire more mass," Wagner says on his LHCDefense.org Web site.

I kinda doubt that's gonna happen, but if it does, I hope to see you all in Heaven later that day, thus settling my theological theories. If not, to quote Han Solo, "I'll see you in hell."

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Here's a cool video from the dude's site:

The Large Hadron Collider 080805
by stoplhc

and another one: