Consider the source:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,483477,00.html

 

Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.

 

Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer — perhaps even more than a second, a relative eternity in particle colliders, where most objects decay much faster.

 

Which of course Fox News Channel digests to mean the following:

 

If the worst comes to pass, and there's now a slightly greater chance that it might, at least it might explain why we've never heard from extraterrestrial civilizations: Maybe they built Large Hadron Colliders of their own.

 

(sigh)

 

 

Edited January 29, 200917 yr by Pangloss

It appeared in New Scientist also. Here we go again:mad:

Scientist of good looking

I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has tried to blow the thing up to "save the world" yet. I mean, aren't there any angry, FOX News-equivalent watching mobs near the Franco-Swiss border?

I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has tried to blow the thing up to "save the world" yet. I mean, aren't there any angry, FOX News-equivalent watching mobs near the Franco-Swiss border?

 

ssshhh! The world ending is not a bad thing. It's part of the plan.

Woo-hoo, now we don't have to wait around for the degradation of our biosphere to gradually kill us, we can do it all in one fell swoop.

 

Isn't doomerism great?

I can't follow how Fox news came to mean that... o_O

You mean this massive leap in reasoning...

 

If the worst comes to pass, and there's now a slightly greater chance that it might, at least it might explain why we've never heard from extraterrestrial civilizations: Maybe they built Large Hadron Colliders of their own.

 

Either, the journalist is not being entirely serious with that statement, or they're an idiot.

How many times is the public gonna freak out before they realize they're ignorant?

How many times is the public gonna freak out before they realize they're ignorant?

 

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.

the biggest fear around the LHC is that the darn thing won't work at all, and might turn out to be a white elephant - anyone got any other ways of finding Higgs?

Isn't Fox News something like diet beer or Kosher ham?

It was kinda funny the first time, but I work in a very specific industry, and it's getting kind of annoying to pick up science publications to see "DOOM HAXORS" all over the place.

 

If they manage to create a stable black hole that'll suck in the world, I at least wanna lick it first.

It was kinda funny the first time, but I work in a very specific industry, and it's getting kind of annoying to pick up science publications to see "DOOM HAXORS" all over the place.

 

 

If they manage to create a stable black hole that'll suck in the world, I at least wanna lick it first.

the frighting thing is that creating a stable black hole might earn them a Nobel prize

I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has tried to blow the thing up to "save the world" yet. I mean, aren't there any angry, FOX News-equivalent watching mobs near the Franco-Swiss border?

Well... the LHC was built in an underground lair for a reason.

They're not trying to make black holes on Saturday, are they?