Re: [silk] black hole eats earth: frivolous lawsuit? or infinitely serious?

2008-04-08 Thread Dave Long
or maybe this is a clever scheme to raise public awareness of the higgs boson :-) maybe it worked. Apparently 60'000 people came to visit the LHC while it was open to the public last weekend. http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/multimedia/picture_of_the_day.html?

[silk] black hole eats earth: frivolous lawsuit? or infinitely serious?

2008-03-29 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/29/europe/physics.php Walter 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

Re: [silk] black hole eats earth: frivolous lawsuit? or infinitely serious?

2008-03-29 Thread Ashok Krish
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. After which the 2 lucky survivors of this er..meal get to listen to Vogon Poetry, I presume? -- Krish Ashok