On 2008-04-15, Wayne Throop <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ah, I see my error. I thought this was the "collapsing the false
vacuum"
> or other such catastrophe.
Oh, right. Not contemplating scientists destroying the universe here,
just Earth :-)
> Then, this is the chance that black holes can both form contrary to
> expectation, and that they won't eva****ate contrary to expectation?
That, and also consuming matter at a rate vastly exceeding
expectation. And also based on the false premise that the LHC
center-of-mass frame is close to being at rest relative to Earth.
> Presumably, strangelet production or similar exotic threats aren't
> an issue, because they would quickly interact with normal matter?
Well, runaway catalysis of normal matter to strange matter would also
be a suitable disaster. But we've already made strange particles and
they haven't destroyed the Earth, so the media don't care about them.
- Tim
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