Can the LHC create a destructive black hole or some other doomsday phenomenon?
The Large Hadron Collider has received a lot of media attention speculating that it could produce micro black holes that would supposedly grow and swallow up everything around them, including you, me and our beloved planet Earth, or destroy us in some other way. It is easy to see how such rumors are able to spread like wildfire by feeding upon people’s fears and lack of information, but two reports commissioned by CERN to assess these concerns have concluded that the Large Hadron Collider is perfectly safe. These findings have been backed by the American Physical Society, the second largest association of physicists in the world. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who was the one who predicted these micro black holes in the first place thinks the LHC does not have the energy required to produce these black holes and told the BBC, “If the collisions in the LHC produced a micro black hole, and this is unlikely, it would just evaporate away again, producing a characteristic pattern of pa
