Gulp. Scientists make something that will eat the Earth.
If there’s one thing all 6.6 billion of us can relate to, it’s worrying. Even Buddhist monks worry (thanks to
A Spaniard and American Walter Wagner have filed court documents to stop a group of international scientists in Switzerland who are about to turn on the Large Hardron Collider (LHC,) a mean-looking 27-kilometre long particle collider which will smash protons into each other “to recreate conditions that resemble what the universe might have been like in the milliseconds after the Big Bang.” The result? Black holes.
The worry is that by creating a universe, although in miniature, black holes will be born. What does that mean for us? Any-sized black hole will consume all matter (including light) around it, meaning that the Earth could completely consume itself in a century.
"A black hole we could make at the LHC would only consume a tiny fraction of a gram of matter from Earth. There's no possibility of causing any damage to the Earth," said Robert McPherson, a
Although McPherson assures us that any black hole will deteriorate and disappear quickly, he’s still going to make a black hole that will eat as much as it can.
It’s a pretty helpless and stark situation, a mini black hole that slowly swallows Switzerland street-by-street, bank-by-bank. Soon,
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