It’s the end of the world as we know it
I, for one, feel fine, but a whole lot of anti-LHC cranks are suddenly trickling out of the woodwork. Some people get really worked up over that whole precautionary principle thing — well, you can’t prove that the LHC won’t destroy the world, so it’s best to assume that it will. And it will probably do it by some means combining the best features of quantum physics, voodoo, and silver-age comic book science.
Bob Park hit the nail pretty much on the head here when he wrote: "In 1999 Wagner warned that RHIC, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, must be slain lest it create a black hole (WN 23 Jul 99) . The then BNL director, Jack Marburger, named a distinguished panel of physicists to investigate. Their report noted that nature has been conducting the relevant safety test for billions of years by colliding heavy-ion cosmic rays with the moon. It concluded that creation of a black hole is ‘effectively ruled out by the persistence of the Moon.’"
