The Day the World Didn't End
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 13:49
in Physics & Chemistry
Here's what didn't happen on Sept. 10th:The world did not end. Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic black hole. And that black hole did not start rapidly sucking in surrounding matter faster and faster until it devoured the Earth, as sensationalist news reports had suggested it might.