Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

"The Translucent Amoebae" <transamoebae@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:c55500c7-27f1-4643-b1c7-If there's a million Quadrillionth chance of
a
miniblack hole
cascading  into another miniblack hole and persisting for a whole
trillionth of a second and devouring the Earth, or ripping a seam in
spacetime, or tearing the skin off an electron, or snapping the wires
holding quarks together, or denting a backwards spinning neutron, or
pulling the sweater off a coed lepton-- causing the universe to
implode...

vs- the tiny amount of useless knowledge that may or may not be
gained...

Is it really worth it?

no knowledge is ever useless.