[iThinkBig]

the globe comes down to money center power forces, specifically 10 Central Banks located throughout the world. If you could ask who now runs this globe, you could safely say it is these men.

The real concern is that these are the same men whom have created a business model of excess debt and the business cycle ALWAYS end result is depressions, provide little true value for manufacturing money at will for governments and have in the centuries past, funded each other's host nations adversaries for massive debt/war profiteering. The Central Bank of France for example creates money for the Bank of England in the Napolean Wars while the English Central Bank funded Napolean himself. The consolidation of this horrible model has reached a head. These Central Banks now more or less control this globe and are responsible for the current depression. Unfortunately, the last two global crisis' (1907 and 1929) spawned the last two global wars. What would such men do with the ability to weaponize this technology and create mini-black holes? Interesting parallels to the Manhatten Project.

[allmost]

The mini black hole speculation is just that, speculation. The energies reached in the search for the theoretical Higgs boson ,for instance, have already been surpassed in places like Fermilab (US). Testing the ‘top end’ so to speak and narrow down the search parameters. No one really knows what happens if they find it. As of right now the weaponization of such particles, which aren’t even known to exist, is science fiction.

[GonzoGOP]

The LHC is a perfect example of something that should be built on the Moon. If you sucked the moon into a mini black hole it would screw up the night sky, but Earth would still be OK. Its not that I'm against science turning this thing on. I jsut want to be a safe distance away.

You have heard on NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) well this is NOYOP (Not On Your Own Planet). Were are all the envirowacko’s when we need them.

[theDentist]

The Chicken Littles still worrying about this?

[Phlyer]

Who should have the final say in issues on a global scale such as this?

On a "global scale such as this?" That's easy. The ones doing the experiment.

Because the only issue 'on a global scale' is the science that will be learned. The 'risk' of a non-evaporating black hole, or some other form of strange matter, is zero - to a lot of decimal places. The fact the evaporation of black holes is a theory is at least as solid as the theory that something bad will come of it.

If you choose to establish some global governance authority - whether it's the top ten banks or you sitting in your den - then that authority would be better off worrying about Wiccan circles chanting in the woods asking for some weird spiritual/magical effects. Those would also require an inversion of known science, and are more likely to occur than globally bad effects from the LHC.

[Texan Tory]

I have to confess that I’m a bit nervous about the Large Hadron Collider. Although I’m not a physicist, even the physicists themselves are not entirely sure what happens at the higher energy levels...if they knew that, then they wouldn’t need to run the experiments. If a non-evaporating black hole ever did get created, I’m thinking that it would be very self-reinforcing, and would quickly propagate so that the entire earth, almost instantaneously, would be compressed into a near-singularity.

[piytar]

Oh geez, NTSA. Higher energy level collisions happen in the Sun constantly. It has only lasted several billion years without being chewed up by a black hole or strange matter. This is just a case of scientifically illiterate people confusing science fiction for science and panicking...

[MrEdd]

Launching a rocket into space could pierce the atmosphere, causing all our air to leak out and destroy the planet...

What is this, 1920s redux?

[Diggity]

I saw a deal on TV the other night about it. They expect Black Holes but they are microscopic in size and exist for nanoseconds because of their evaporation rates.