Real-Life Supervillainy Taken To Court
Just last week, we had a story on real-life superheroes out to make the world a better place. Now, thanks to physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, Earth could be subject to man-made destruction more befitting the plans of Lex Luthor or Doctor Doom.
According to the New York Times,
The world's physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers will sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature.But Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a "strangelet" that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called "strange matter."
Sure, the physicists at CERN certainly aren't threatening to consume the Earth with a black hole unless they're given the head of Captain Marvel or anything, but the fact remains that this invention could seriously consume the Earth with a black hole ... and let's not forget this machine could even turn the entire planet into something actually called "strange matter". And that sounds pretty supervillainous to me.
Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More [NY TImes]
kid_ampersand
Posted to Other on 30 March 2008
· Comments (6)
Other stuff like this: news, science, supervillainy
Boy Meets Hero by Chayne Avery and Russell Garcia
Hey come on if we're all going to go, black hole is the way I want it to go down.
Astroids are for losers.
So yeah. Sorry for everyone else, but my way to die is totally going to have to impose on the rest of you- so get use to it.
Ooh... or maybe the strangelet will give somebody superpowers.
That sort of thing happens, right?
Yes... everything according to plan... all we need now is the- uh... *kaff* I mean... hm... You smell something burning? *bolt*
The current "storyline" on Overcompensating has been about the characters' pets (a zombie cat, a machine elf, and a bald lemur) teaming up to stop the Large Hadron Collector.
I read this story earlier today (you really should link it in the post), and the quote at the very end is even better.
"There is some minuscule probability... that the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”
Basically, it sounds like these guys are either out to be sensationalists or are really crackpots. This isn't the first time one of them has done this, and the other does research on 'time theory'.
i read about this months ago on wiki (while lost in the wiki read one article then another loop) It also said that the tiny blackholes (which are believed to already exist[Bermuda Triangle phenom]) can become stable and just stay there but that they can drift through the world or whatever but it isnt a big deal. OH LOL that convert entire universe to strangelet matter stuff was weird