I've seen several alarmist news articles over the past few months pertaining to the evils of the new Large Hadron Collider, schedules to begin operations this summer near Geneva, Switzerland.  Many people are erroneously reporting that the LHC has a very real potential of bringing about “Doomsday” since one of the goals is to create mini black holes.  Of course, since Black Holes have been largely vilified because we simple do not understand their purpose, other than cosmic vacuum cleaners.  However, it is reckless for the media to continually present these conjectures as if they were foregone conclusions. 

The fact of the matter is that the LHC represents a huge achievement for mankind and science, as well as an opportunity to discover key attributes of our universe.  We’ve been laboring under the disjointed Standard Model for many decades now and it is time that we start to look at ways to prove the string theories so that we can gain a clearer understanding of the fabric of our cosmos.

Unfortunately, most people will not understand the theories and hypothesis behind the LHC, nor will the understand the findings.  But everyone understands that black holes = bad.  As I’ve mentioned several times before, the media does not present the entire context of their stories.  I cannot tell you how infuriating it is to see people misled by contrived news stories, meant only to get people to buy the paper, while the aftermath is continued doubt and suspicion towards the scientific community.

I felt that it was important that I blog about this today, whether my opinion gets circulated or not.  There are many scientific papers on this particular subject and it is important the people understand the truth.

If you’d like to contribute to this project, visit the LHC@Home webs ite to devote some of your CPU to the processing of this important data.