Least reassuring reassurance ever
March 31, 2008 at 1:56 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in Not-lantaTwo 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.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Could we get a list of those “other effects”?
March 31st, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Um. Not pleased.