A clip from a BBC documentary explaining Hawking radiation around black holes. {source: stevebd1}

Proton vs. Proton (Wikipedia)

I recently published two articles discussing Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In both those articles, I reported concerns that the Collider may pose serious safety threats. Included in the second article entitle “Will Black Holes swallow Switzerland” was a definition of a black hole and the potential consequences should a “mini black hole” be created in under the Swiss countryside.

In this article I will address another of the several concerns raised by plaintiffs in alawsuit aimed to delay the start of the LHC based on claims that the Collider was a disaster waiting to happen. This other concern involves theoretically lumps of matter commonly know by the peculiar name “Strangelets”.

Read complete article here. {via The Examiner}