This article is laughable. First of all, all of this controversy has to do with the Large Hadron Collider (Black Holes) and the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (ant

This article is laughable. First of all, all of this controversy has to do with the Large Hadron Collider (Black Holes) and the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (antimatter). Much else goes on at CERN. Secondly, they are going to be making extremely tiny amounts of antimatter (just enough to study it's effects). Not enough to blow up anything significant. Antimatter is really, really hard to keep around and control. See: http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/Research/Antimatter-en.html http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/Research/Antimatter-en.h... Third, the "mini black holes" they are making are nothing like what a layman would consider a black hole. They will be only the mass of a few thousand protons and if our current understanding of particle physics is even close to correct they will evaporate almost instantaneously. The funniest part of this whole thing is extremely high energy cosmic rays have been making much higher energy collisions on earth for it's entire existence. This is all about laymen getting up in arms about things they don't understand. The scientists shouldn't have called them black holes in the first place as it incites ignorant people to speak out when they know very little. With all the science fiction surrounding black holes anyone could have predicted this kind of outrage. See: http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html