[Sethomas]

Creating a black hole in Geneva, if it were powerful enough to collect an excess of matter despite the tremendous void of space at the quantum level where it develops, would give everyone the quick and painless death they want. You'd just go from ordering McDonald's or wanking to being a femto-nugget instantaneously, more or less. But, if one takes Hawking radiation as a given then the chance of a black hole getting larger than the composite parts that created it is pretty damn slim.

Dark matter and dark energy aren't solid physical concepts right now, they're just buffering to explain why the visible universe exhibits more gravity than its visible mass can account for. Saying that there's "some matter we can't see, and some energy we can't see" is actually much more cogent of an explanation than saying "Fuck, Newton was wrong, Einstein was wrong, and a 500 gram apple on earth would have an altered mass of 50 kg in space because space is weird."

Kahl, they've been talking about making baby black holes for quite some time, but most every time I've heard it, it was talking about optimism for the accelerator at CERN. I don't think anyone in the real world appreciates the possibilities CERN presents. Stephen Hawking predicted that physics would be totally dead by 2003, and CERN shows how wrong he was.

CERN is just another particle accelerator like the ones we've had for decades, but it's just HUUUUUUGE and EXPEEEEEEEENSIVE. Which means it's gonna be awesome.