[extropy-chat] Existential risks and CERN

[scerir]

From: "Olie Lamb" 
> Just came across an actual figure for the existential risk posed by
> experiments at the Large Hadron Collider: [...]
> Question is: are these the real chances, or are they skewed by cognitive
> biases?

They are (very unlikely) disaster scenarios (production of: 
black holes, killer strange quark matters, etc.) inspired by 
hypothetical fundamental processes that might occur in high energy 
relativistic heavy ion collisions.

(Note that such hypothetical processes would be interesting
from some general energy supply perspective). 

The continued existence of the Moon, and Earth, after
so many years of cosmic ray exposure, seems to provide 
evidence against the possibility of dangers.

More here below ...
 
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512204
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0009204
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9910333