Hadron collider, black holes ...
Some years back I watched a comedian doing a stand-up routine in which he talked about somebody somewhere who had just won the lottery for a second time. He said some mathematicians had worked out the odds against that at something like five trillion to one. (I don't remember the exact number, but it was something big like that.) And then the comedian started talking about some experiments some scientists were running with some large hadron collider which had something like a trillion-in-one chance of generating a mini-black hole that had the potential of starting to swallow things up and eventually consuming the entire planet. And then he made the point that those scientists were doing something that had a five-times-better chance of ending everything, than something that had already happened in actual fact. He was a comedian, and so he presented this in a very humorous way. It was hilarious and I laughed until my side hurt.
So, keeping that in mind, watch this short Dust science fiction film, (if the link works) and consider the events it depicts:
-- Ron
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