The large hadron collider will not disprove the big bang, even if it does happen to discover rainbow gravity.
You’ve Doomed Us All!
As the LHC begins running at its highest energy yet, do we need to worry that it will unleash something dangerous like black holes? Not in the slightest.
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When the Large Hadron Collider was frantically searching for the Higgs boson, you could hear murmuring speculation about the possibility of the LHC creating black holes that could destroy the Earth. There was a lawsuit filed against Cern in an effort to prevent such a catastrophe. Part of this was fueled by our love of a good doomsday scenario, but part of it was driven by the idea that the LHC was producing the highest energy collisions ever known. While the LHC is humanity’s highest energy particle collider, it doesn’t produce the highest energy collisions known. Much higher collisions are produced by cosmic rays.
We’ve Got One!
We’ve discovered the Higgs boson. Here’s what we know about it so far.
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Boson
Just what is a boson? And why is the search for the Higgs boson such a big deal?