Strangelets

[couchpot123]

Could anyone tell me if the Scientists at the RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory have already done the tests and have doomed the planet?

[jake-the-peg]

I thought this had been dead and buried years ago

It's been running since 2000 and we're all still here.

There is a certain history of concern from non-scientists about this discussed in an article here:

http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/rcrea se/strangelets_rcrease.pdf

If it's not strangelets it's micro black holes, or supernovae or setting fire to the atmosphere all the way back to Mary Shelly.

I seem to recall someone even predicted that our chests would cave in and we'd suffocate if we went above 30mph on one of those locomotive thingies