The Hawking Institute in no way claims to have influence over the activities of CERN, and as for the responsibility for the disappearance of Geneva and a part of France and Switzerland, we claim to have been no party to any theoretical lacunae in the experiments. Actually, one must admit the spectacle of Lake Geneva emptying like bathwater down a plughole is spectacular and worth a visit.
As for complaints from the mountaineering fraternity that the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc are in danger of being swallowed by an alleged black hole under the location of the Geneva Airport, we would suggest they get busy and plan their next season in the Himalayas, before those mountains disappear as well. Onward! To the Stars!
(Note: Synthetic securities consist of – Special Purpose Vehicles [SPV]; Collaterated Debt Obligations [CDO]; Asset Backed Securities (ABS); and Collaterised Loan Obligations [CLO])
(Note 2: Hadrons are either Baryons, which decay into protons and are believed to consist of three quarks, or Mesons which decay into Leptons and photons or into proton pairs and are believed to consist of a quark and an antiquark.) (See why we needed to experiment?)
Article comments
1 - JTankers
Clever article.
A number of PHD level theoretical scientists have questions about LHC Safety and are concern about more than just a few "theories" being destroyed.
The most notable is Professor Dr. Otto E. Rossler, founder of Endophysics and most famous for his contributions to Chaos theory.
Dr. Rossler refutes CERN's safety arguments and proposes that if micro black holes are created (some say the odds are 1 in 1000, others say the odds are closer to 1 in 2) they would grow large enough to threaten Earth in 50 months to 50 years.
Got LHCFacts.org?
2 - c hoare
Thanks for your contribution to this JTankers. I followed to your blog and you have certainly amassed more argument that the whitewash on CERN's site.
Afraid I'm not likely to go deeper into the discussion -- I'm a novelist who's main concern is the increasing tendency for all these specialized controversies to exclude the general public who should be party to the concerns of their home planet.
A fool with a PhD is, unfortunately, still a fool.
3 - duane
Kinda makes you wish that human space travel and off-world colonization was a bit more advanced than it is now. The only solution will be to use the black hole, once it's big enough, to go back in time and cancel the entire LHC project. That should be straightforward.