# Should we be scared?

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**Created:** [April 13, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731 "2008-04-13T12:07:57Z")
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### Author: ![JDMSIR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdmsir/32/7376_2.png) [@JDMSIR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMSIR)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/4 "2008-04-13T12:36:18Z")

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I like this part

> Then there’s the matter of black holes.
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> Harvey Newman, a Caltech physicist who was one of the discoverers of the gluon and is leader of the U.S. contingent on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, said the collider could theoretically produce a mini-black hole by packing a tremendous amount of energy into a tiny space.
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> But he said the black hole would pose no threat because it would last only 10 to the minus-27th power seconds before decaying – hardly enough time to start gobbling up the French countryside.
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> Critics are not convinced. Just last month, Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho filed suit in U.S. District Court in Honolulu to block the start-up of the new collider until CERN produces a comprehensive safety report.
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> Speaking from Hawaii, Wagner said that despite assurances from scientists at CERN and around the world, there was no proof a mini-black hole would disappear. No one has ever seen it happen, said Wagner, who studied cosmic ray physics at UC Berkeley as a young man.
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> It’s just as possible that the tiny black hole would be stable and start chewing up normal matter, he said.
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> It could take years for it to become large enough to gobble up the Earth, but there’s no evidence that can’t happen, he said.

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