Monday, March 31, 2008

Destroying the universe?

It looks like someone is trying to sue to stop scientists from running something called a Large Hadron Collider. Check out the article here. Basically, some people are worried that this Collider could create a black hole that might swallow the earth. Or the Collider could destroy the universe.

As far as I know, there's no real scientific consensus on whether the universe is infinite or not. But I think this article proves that either the Large Hadron Collider will not destroy the universe, or the universe isn't infinite. If the universe is infinite, then basically everything that could possibly happen in 13 billion years would have happened somewhere. Since we're on a relatively new planet, odds are, aliens would've already developed Large Hadron Colliders, and some of them would've tested it. Obviously, it did not destroy the universe. But we don't know what happened to their planets. On the other hand, if the universe is not infinite, there is a chance we might be the first to develop this technology. Should we be worried?

1 comment:

Jeff said...

bring it on Collider!