awesome

is it awsome?
you think it's a clever idea that all that what was it..... 6billion has gone on creating the end of our world? i think yeah it would be ace to find out what could possibly be found but at the planets expense? think they've gone abit to far and they need to spend some of that money on finding a relevent more effective and quicker way to feed clean water to places in poverty. i'm all for the science belief in the creation of the world. but i'm not for only giving £2 a month to a charity.

I agree with danny slott

you forget dany that the LHC will answer questions about so many things that it cold prove to be the most beniefical invention ever created. It could advance the scientific community to such a degree that poverty will be non-existent. There is no proof as to the rumours of creating a black whole, only hypotheses and guesses. your argu,ent is invalid.

its ALMOST impossible that these black holes can devour the experiment, or Genva, or the Earth...

correct me if Im wrong but Almost impossible in other words means - Possible...

I dont think that doing experiments like this one is moraly correct, even if theres a 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of destroing the world,the chance is still there.
one day science will destroy the mankind, and it will be thanks to curious bunch of scientists like these, that want to help everybody, but are willing to take that tiny chance of killing everybody in the process....

is a .0000000000000000000000000001% of instant death no worth the ultimate answer to everything? The supreme and total knowledge of god and his tools?

I think so

actually the LHC would not solve poverty because in order to produce 1 gram of antimatter, CERN (the company) would need to spend 100 quadrillion dollars and run the antimatter factory for 100 billion years. (quote off wikipedia). using all the antimatter they have ever collected they have been able to light a lightbulb for 30 seconds... it is worth doing as there are so many things it can do as well as the anti matter and energys (big bang stuff), it would also prove many theorys thus giving us usable answers and ideas to problems we face now. end of the world my bumhole, The probability of the creation of strangelets decreases at higher energies. As the LHC operates at higher energies than the RHIC or the heavy ion programs of the 1980s and 1990s, NO ONE WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD THEN!!

noxxx,

You are afraid of these minute chances of something going wrong and condemn science based solely on that. Congratulations, you've stripped our world of any medical and technological advancements we've made: no means of hunting/gathering, no cures for illnesses, no means of self-defence... Have you any knowledge of Physics? Are you in a better position to say that all of the more than capable minds collaborating on this project to say that it is wrong and that they should stop? Or are you merely jumping on another "doomsday" media scheme?

...Think about it.

Actually, according to documents found in Area 51, the Hadron Collider was first used in secret during the mid 80's in San Fransisco. The results were recorded and became the 1984 phenomenon "Ride The Lightning" by Metallica...

There is no chance of these experiments creating a black hole which will destroy the universe or even the world. None at all. Check Hawking's work on the evaporation of micro black holes.

just saw this link. thought would pop some info on. its impossible that a black hole will be created and devour the earth. the last guy is right. these collisions occur all the time around us. the collider is a laboratory version. it wont create a black hole

i find it ridiculous that you can use the scientific theory that anything is possible, such as a black hole being created and then ignore the scientific theory that if such a black hole was created it would collapse in upon itself. If you dont believe the knowledge behind the experiment why would you believe in any possible result?? if you believe the theory that a black hole could be created by their mathematics how can you not be believe when the same mathematics tells you that it is of no danger?

No one knows what the probability of this working actually is.For all we know it could be 50/50 chance or if you want to expand your mind it could be 5000000000/5000000000 chance. Curiousity killed the cat.

50/50 is a percentage so 5000000000/5000000000 makes no sense because the max is 100/0.

the information given about current antimatter production is correct, that it would take 100 billion years to produce 1 gram, but these technologies are improving exponentially, so by researching these things we could eventually make cheap energy, and then there would be no poverty - this is a long term solution.

"The current rate of production of antimatter is
between one-billionth to ten-billionths of a gram per year. The yield
might increase by a factor of three by the year 2020"

- from the book "Physics Of The Impossible" by Dr. Micio Kaku