Ok so seriously, it's just the biggest particle accelerator made evar. Quit worrying. There's a good chance that it'll further benefit our scientific knowledge, and if it doesn't discover anything, then whoo, we still collided some particles at near light speed, yo!
And as stated by other people before, if it did create a blackhole, it would be a little pussy version that ends up doing nothing more than dissipating in a small flash of gamma radiation. Your typical planet-consuming blackholes are usually of exceptional mass, as in solar masses.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Well time keeps slowing down as we get closer to the blackhole . . .
Actually once we pass the event horizon of a black hole in just a few seconds we would be dead when we hit the singularity (if we even last that long)
but to someone outside of the event horizon it would "appear" that we would never hit the singularity because the gravity is so strong that the light we would emit cannot reach escape velocity.
I'm no physicist but I think a black hole would dissipate over time as long as it doesn't get fed any matter to gobble up.
Originally posted by Bigon
Any black hole opening on Earth would instantly destroy the entire solar system.
I lol'd at this.
Look, if it opens a black hole, and that's a large if, it's going to be a microscopic black hole due to the amount of matter they're slamming into each other. The event horizon would be an inch in diameter at most. Objects a meter away or more won't even feel its gravitational effects.
They've written whole papers on the LHC's safety. It's no big deal - and if it works, they might even be able to put together a Grand Unified Theory.
The benefits far outweigh the risks.