Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The LHC and the END OF THE WORLD

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

If you need further reassurance, here's how one physicist summed up the likelihood of humanity being inadvertently destroyed by a miniature black hole of our own making:
Look, it's a 10^-19 chance, and you've got a 10^-11 chance of suddenly
evaporating while shaving.

(HTs: Free Exchange and Chris Blattman)

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