Comment Re:Why the tone in the summary? (Score 1) 293
That argument is a bit deceptive.
The LHC will create conditions not created by nature on Earth.
In the LHC protons (or lead on lead nucleon and possibly protons to anti-protons in the future?) collide head on, like a head on car crash, some resulting particles will travel too slowly to escape Earth's gravity.
When a cosmic ray strikes Earth's atmosphere (moving hitting stationary) results all have extremely high speed. If any stable neutral micro black holes were created by Nature they would all travel through Earth and into space.
CERN's LHC Safety Assessment Group acknowledged this in a 16 March 2008 email before they modified their theories a bit.[1]
"While it is true that a BH produced by cosmic rays would not be stopped by the Earth, there are many other "things" in the universe that could trap such CR-produced BH's, thus leading to visible consequences."[1] (that arguments is also refuted)
[1] http://www.lhcconcerns.com/LHCConcerns/Forums/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=10 LHC Safety Assessment Group, 16 Mar 2008