So who's ready for the world to end Wednesday!

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Hawkeye said:
You people. Worrying about things like this is a form of OCD (I think? I asked about it in the OCD thread)
May be there is dark matter and black holes and may be there isn't. Same thing for man made global warming; we don't really know. Either way, the accepted theory is that dark matter can pass through normal matter and exist in the same place at the same time. If dark matter and normal matter collide, they turn into nothing, though its not clear how that would happen. THis particle accelerator is TRYING to make dark matter, right? So there is a very TINY chance that some dark matter is made. There is a TINY chance we will be able to capture it and study it if we make it, but most likely it will be like most dark matter and be undetectable. THEORETICALLY, a black hole could somehow spawn and if scientists current theory about black holes are right, the earth would be swallowed up. Boo hoo. Worrying about it does nothing.

Well...while I don't think there's statistically any reason to worry about this experiment...it needs to be considered, by scientists anyway.

There was really nothing humans could do thousands of years ago to destroy the world...all we had was sticks and stones, or perhaps weapons to take down villages and cities...nothing to destroy the earth we stand on.

Today we have nuclear bombs and machines creating energies 100,000 times hotter than the sun...if we haven't gotten to the point where we have the capability to destroy the world, we'll be there in the next century.

We don't need to worry about it, but it's not like there isn't some danger in experimental science like this.  We have the most knowledgable people working on it, so what can we do.