It is 8:30 a.m, NST. I assume if you're reading this that Sun rose and life is carrying on as normal in the post Large Hadron Collider world. Skeptics have been proven wrong, a black hole did not envelope the world. My speech at Toastmasters last night was not my last.
Protons were fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe. Of course the real test comes when they start firing protons in the opposite direction so they collide.
Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them -- including the whole Earth. Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, alleging safety concerns regarding black holes and other phenomena that could theoretically emerge. A legal bid to halt the project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, failed.
Now political scientists can focus on the Williams-Harper Collider! Now there is the potential for a black hole.
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