Was just about to post something on this .
This is what people think will happen :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKMAlso this :
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080909-black-hole.htmlLife as we know it just might all come to an end in a few hours. I'm not sure how many of you have been following this, but the Large Hadron Collider will fire up in a few hours. There are a few scientists who believe these experiments might trigger a black hole, which will eventually swallow planet Earth and eventually our entire solar system, erasing any evidence that we were ever here. Here's the scary part: the scientists who are pretty confident that a scenario like this will not happen admit that in theory, there is an outside chance that this could happen. I personally feel that if we're going to attempt something like this all scientists should all be 100% sure that there is a 0% possibility that a black hole can be spawned before trying something like this, but that's just me... lol. On the other hand, the data that comes from these experiments can increase our knowledge of everything exponentially.
Physicists across the globe are on the edges of their seats, but not because they're worried about a Franco-Swiss black hole.
In recreating the conditions present a trillionth of a second after the big bang, the collider could reveal the nature of dark matter, thought to provide structure throughout the universe, scientists say. The machine could also unmask a theoretical but as yet unseen particle, called Higgs boson—or the "God particle"—that is believed to give other particles their mass.
There's also a very, very remote chance that the process will spawn black holes—any one of which could assume an odd orbit within Earth, devouring microscopic chunks of matter until the entire planet is gone, physicists say.
This and other harrowing—and equally unlikely—scenarios prompted a couple of independent scientists to sue this past spring to stop the atom smasher. So far they haven't succeeded, and the vast majority of the world's physicists are on board with the project.
