I disagree with the risk.
Gravitational theory makes creation of black holes incredibly unlikely and even if some very tiny ones are created
they will be so unstable as to vanish in under a microsecond. They could not exist long enough to create a problem.
And they could not 'Get into the earth'.
I'll counter the argument about risk in doing by the loss of not
doing. There has never been a scientific discovery that did not pay dividends eventually and there has not been one
without risk far greater than the tiny, almost immeasurable, risk being taken with the new accelerator. Similar
claims were made about other accelerators, as well as other experiments, and nothing ever happened. Accelerators
have resulted in huge potential savings and have saved thousands, if not millions, of lives. The savings and
potential learning involved in this type research could someday resolve energy problems, save millions more lives
and even take us to the stars, to name only a few benefits. To not experiment and learn is to stagnate and
eventually to die as a race. Rather a minor risk now than a certainty tomorrow.
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