O RLY?

[nenena]

Via neocloud9: Blah blah blah Large Hadron Collider.

[S]ome skeptics fear the proton collisions could unleash microscopic black holes that would eventually doom the Earth.

Now, I may not be a fancy-pants scientist with any sort of hoitie-toitie pee aych dee in physics, but I do know for certain that anything featured as a plot point in an episode of Sailor Moon - i.e., tiny handheld black holes - is extremely unlikely to happen in real life.

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[neocloud9.livejournal.com]

[...] anything featured as a plot point in an episode of Sailor Moon - i.e., tiny handheld black holes - is extremely unlikely to happen in real life.

You doubt Prophet Takeuchi? *A*

SHUN THE NONBELIEVER!! SHHHUUUNNN~

[hauntedreality.livejournal.com]

lol, yeah, I was kind of thinking the same thing. Besides, with everything else dooming us, it will have to take a number.

[kawaiikid.livejournal.com]

Micro black holes are theoretically possible, but they'd disappear instantly.

Apparently though, people are really freaking out about this, they think it's going to make a black hole that will swallow the Earth, and are taking it upon themselves to inform the scientists at CERN of this. Because it weren't for the Average Joe, scientists would just destroy the Earth in their reckless abandon, of course.

[xhoshichan.livejournal.com]

People get up in arms over the STRANGEST things sometimes. And yes, if it was in an episode of Sailor Moon, generally I doubt it'll happen. ;)

[evil-authoress.livejournal.com]

As long as Sailor Moon is our new basis of science, I'd like someone to get me a Disguise Pen and a Star Yell, plz.

[xhoshichan.livejournal.com]

Yes, while you're at it, a Cosmic Moon Compact plz?

[miss-breeziness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember that episode. And distinctly remember thinking of all the scientific impossibilities in it. I mean, even if you assume that black holes can be captured in some kind of container chamber by some technology or magic unknown to mankind, once out, it should have instantly begun sucking up everything in sight - including buildings, trees, and all the Sailor Senshi.
Then again, anime is all about "let's bend the laws of physics for our own super-cool effects". Such blatant disrespect makes my blood boil...:D Not really.

[orthoflame.livejournal.com]

Hey, most science is possible on paper (can anyone say paper universe destruction party?).

Skeptics seem to fear everything. I'm rather surprised they haven't gotten down to handshakes, or the .01% bacteria antibacterial soap can't kill. :\

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have an lj so I shall remain anonymous.

I can tell you that tiny black holes are possible. My physics teacher today was talking about this in class and he said it is. The thing about black holes though is that it takes a REALLY dense material to make a black hole (denser than most stars including the sun) and even if the black hole happened, it would likely diminish after just a second (or even less) since it needs a lot of energy to remain being a black hole. Without the continuous energy, then the black hole will just disappear.