Apparently not… supposedly…  At least not by creating a black hole here on Earth.

My feeble little mind understands enough to create worry about some silly things. Take black holes for existence. My working layman’s definition of a black hole is some entity that is so incredibly dense, that its gravity is so strong that he can pull matter into itself, and it’s so strong that even light can’t escape it.

My physics major friends are all laughing at me now.

But when I read stories about the Large Hadron Collider and how it might be used to create microscopic black holes, I then envision the LHC getting immediately sucked into the black hole, followed by the rest of the lab at CERN, followed by Switzerland, and then Europe. Then I figure I’ll hear that sound you get when you snap your cheek with your finger as the whole planet collapses into the black hole.

If you are willing to trust the scientists, this isn’t likely to happen.

Phewww!