{"id":2055,"date":"2008-09-11T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2008-09-11T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T18:53:14","slug":"the-looming-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/09\/11\/the-looming-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Looming Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physics blogosphere is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/09\/09\/live-blogging-the-lhc-startup\/\">abuzz<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=886\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dorigo.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/10\/event-pictures\/\">start<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/end-of-world-at-large-hadron-collider.html\">up<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.web.cern.ch\/topics\/large-hadron-collider\">large hadron collider<\/a>.  There is a hole in Texas which is very jealous.  And of course, everyone is happy that the Earth was not destroyed or a bubble universe wasn&#8217;t created.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut if I remember my science fiction correctly, I don&#8217;t believe that one can conclude from our continued existence that the LHC isn&#8217;t making black holes.  Indeed if the plot is followed, which is the prophecy equivalent of the derivation being sound, then we will discover that the LHC has produced a trillion mini black holes at the center of the Earth.  And of course these will have evolved into an intelligent agent which will soon destroy the Earth.  Be worried, earth citizens, be very worried.<br \/>\nOh NoZ!  Black HOLZ Hve gon Gotten demselvs BrainZ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physics blogosphere is abuzz about the start up of the large hadron collider. There is a hole in Texas which is very jealous. And of course, everyone is happy that the Earth was not destroyed or a bubble universe wasn&#8217;t created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}