Large Hadron Collider Search for Original Particles May Destroy Everything

What created a blog frenzy is now being discussed in mainstream news sources and science periodicals and journals. The question is: Will CERN's hunt for the Higgs Boson, which existed only at the beginning of the creation of the material universe, blow the world into to a parallel universe? Annihilate all matter--and us? Destroy the world?

The Boston Globe science writers, physicists Stephen Reucroft and John Swain of Northeastern University aka Dr. Knowledge, have said that having protons smash together in the particle collider at Switzerland's European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) causes one to wonder if a black hole might be created. They then go on to give three reasons for why this creation of a black hole won't happen. Firstly the theory that a black hole may be created depends on other theories that assume extra dimensions and specify that the energy required for such a black hole is less than that needed for the creation of a cosmic black hole in the known universe.

Second, they say the existence of black holes is still theoretical; no empirical proof of black holes is currently in hand. Acquiring proof of black hole theory is thwarted by the theoretical necessity of time slowing down near densely heavy objects (i.e., black holes), so objects being drawn irresistibly into a black hole pursue their fate of annihilation at infinitely, and therefore unobservably, slow speeds.

Third, ultrahigh energy cosmic rays throughout the universe are colliding at high velocities everywhere all the time, including, apparently, on Earth and the moon. So while there may be great scientific excitement about designing and controlling these collisions for experimental purposes, in the cosmos, they are really a common occurrence.

"A particularly violent game of proton billiards [with] LHC's superpowered seven trillion electron-volt atomic cues." (Lewis Page, The Register)

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