The Large Hadron Collider will probably be switched on this August.
LSAG reaffirms and extends the conclusions of the 2003 report that LHC collisions present no danger and that there are no reasons for concern. The LSAG report has been reviewed and endorsed by CERN’s Scientific Policy Committee, the group of external scientists that advises CERN’s governing body.
"Although the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can achieve an energy
that no other particle accelerators have ever reached before,
Nature routinely produces higher energies in cosmic-ray collisions"The group therefore conclude that it is impossible for stable microscopic black holes to be produced at the LHC. Although some some speculative theories predict the production of such particles, all the theories predict that these particles would disintegrate immediately.
Black holes, therefore, would have no time to start accreting matter, and cause macroscopic effects.
The Large Hadron Collider Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) go on to rule out the production of:- Strangelets, Vacuum Bubbles, and Proton eating Magnetic Monopoles.....their reasoning is described below.
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html***Thoughts
A thought provoking report, allowing us to sleep easy in the future.
