Black Holes at the LHC
I am presently writing on a post on ‘The Illusion of Knowledge’, and I can’t but find it ironic that while doing so I am distracted by those suffering from it. Peter Steinberg over from Entropy Bound (is this a black hole hanging on his blog, or do I start having halluzinations?) sent me a link to an overexposed YouTube video “The LHC– the end of the world again?” showing a teenage girl in a garden babbling about how the LHC will cause the end of the world. Starting with the disclaimer “I don’t have a very technical brain,” the main statement is “So, we’re creating a very unnatural situation.”
Read more here.
‘The Illusion of Knowledge’, and is is possible that we all suffer from this to some degree?
Is it possible that you have the illusion of safety, that it is not rational to fear silly harmless things like micro black holes?
I know that CERN has announced that they have completed a new safety theory that will be released soon which theoretically proves what they have always said, “no risk” from this experiment.
Why would anyone even think that creating micro black holes on Earth might be dangerous?
In order to be dangerous BOTH of the following would have to be incorrect!
A. Evaporation (The theory that black holes might evaporate was invented more than 30 years ago, never verified though… Actually several recent studies determined that there was no compelling reason to believe that micro black holes really would evaporate. So maybe, maybe not.)
B. Grow linearly, slowly (CERN believes this is the case, that is their theory. But then Dr. Otto E. Rossler could be correct that they might grow exponentially. He published some apparently compelling math to back up the theory. So again an open question…).
But CERN has assure the public that there is no risk, and they will release the report that has been completed soon that will support “no risk”. Of course they have been saying that the report would be imminently released for quite a few months actually. So perhaps that is an open question too.
Learn more at LHCFacts.org
(you just might help save a planet)