The Sky Is Falling!

Here we go again:

Scientists sue to stop a 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

They fear experiments could create 'vacuum' and consume the planet.

A European court(a batch of non-scientists) says the idea a new supercollider project could create a "celestial vacuum" and eventually consume the Earth is worth discussing, but the project can move forward on schedule anyway.

At dispute is what could happen should planned experiments at the supercollider built near Geneva by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, go awry when the massive atomic particle smasher is fired up about this time next week.

A few details:

-1) A black hole is created when a sun, much larger than ours -after having consumed up its fuel - collapses in on itself due the gravitational forces involved. We're talking about gravitational forces thousands of times more powerful than anything on Earth, or even possible to create on Earth.

-2)The Earth, our solar system, including our sun, does not have enough mass to generate the gravitational forces required to create even a small, self-sustainable black hole.

And there's the rub: Self-sustainable. The Hadron collider may indeed create a black hole for a micro-instant of time, but it will be far, far too small to sustain itself. It will not have the necessary mass required to generate a gravitational field strong enough to stay viable and to start sucking in the Earth.

If these "scientists" who have sued to stop the Hadron collider are a part of the development team, they should be fired yesterday.