Re: CERN Atom Smasher May End the World

In rec.arts.sf.science Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-04-13, Batroc Z  Leaper <hotfrog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> This is just idiot junk science.  Ultra high energy cosmic rays far
more 
>> energetic than anything any human collider can produce have been
hitting 
>> the earth for billions of years.  We're still here.  
> 
> Ultra high energy cosmic rays far more energetic than anything any
> human collider can produce couldn't possibly have less than Earth's
> escape velocity, either.  Any black hole produced in such a collision
> would have a velocity within a whisker of c and would go straight
> through the Earth without noticeably slowing.
> 
> A micro black hole created in a collision from particles moving in
> opposite directions theoretically could be created moving slow enough
> to remain within Earth's vicinity.  So I don't think that particular
> argument is valid.

In the five billion year history of our planet there have never been two 
cosmic rays pointing toward each other which collided with roughly 
similar energies??

-- 
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software