After more than a few setbacks and predictions of disaster, it's finally happened. Not surprisingly, FOX News helped whip up hysteria, talking to experts and then misrepresenting what those experts told them. No, I'm not talking about healthcare reform, I'm talking about the large hadron collider, which went online at 6:00 AM CDT today in Geneva, Switzerland. Here's FOX's reporting on the collider in January of 2009, before the last setback:
The story goes on to cite Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama, who calculated that a mini black hole might be able to exist in the collider for more than a second. In a paper the trio published, they then went on to explain that this wasn't a problem since, regardless of their expanded calculations, the black holes would still dissolve... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
Still worried that the Large Hadron Collider will create a black hole that will destroy the Earth when it's finally switched on this summer?
Um, well, you may have a point.
Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.
The story goes on to cite Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama, who calculated that a mini black hole might be able to exist in the collider for more than a second. In a paper the trio published, they then went on to explain that this wasn't a problem since, regardless of their expanded calculations, the black holes would still dissolve... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
