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Originally Posted by trekkor
Aren't their own words something to the effect of creating the same conditions the split second after the Big Bang?
That doesn't sound 'harmless' at all.
KT
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The Universe survived it once, and seems to be thriving.
They are not recreating the conditions of the big Bang, they are not tearing Higg's particles apart, they are doing the same thing they've done at half a dozen other accelerators for decades now. None of them have rifted time and space, and neither will this one. The LHC is MAGNITUDES too weak to do some of what the naysayers are claiming.
Their ONLY hope of seeing ANYTHING on the scale of the Higgs (well, it's predicted energy) is that quantum fluctuations permit the Higgs to exist at a much small energy level than normal, if it borrows heavily from the space-time around it. The more it borrows, the shorter it can borrow it, and the less likely to catch it at that moment. The LHC is waiting for that one Higgs to take out a $50,000 payday loan with a 5 day payment date...it's gonna take a HUGE borrow and a TINY payback time.