The black hole is around the fourth or fifth in the list of possible problems. The most worrisome possibility is that the energy necessary to get it working at full power might be too much for the already strained european power grid to handle, since they shut down a lot of power plants around the entire continent, and all fuel reserves are at their lowest. For a continent so reliant on gas, oil and nuclear power like them, that's really not good at all.
Second. I happen to have checked their methodology and discussed it online on hard science forums (yeah, I should be getting laid, I know). Our conclusion was that, even if a singularity ended up being formed, it would be billions of times smaller than an atom, and would decay almost instantly due to a phenomenom called Hawking radiation . The resulting implosion would barely register as a blip in the radar.
My suggestion, stop worrying about that and pushing fear porn. There's already enough of that to go around at the moment.
I agree with your assessment, but a reminder that only recently was Einstein's theory of black holes actually confirmed, and it's not like we have had the ability to actively study one so... If a micro black hole formed, we can only surmise what would happen.
The black hole is around the fourth or fifth in the list of possible problems. The most worrisome possibility is that the energy necessary to get it working at full power might be too much for the already strained european power grid to handle, since they shut down a lot of power plants around the entire continent, and all fuel reserves are at their lowest. For a continent so reliant on gas, oil and nuclear power like them, that's really not good at all.
Second. I happen to have checked their methodology and discussed it online on hard science forums (yeah, I should be getting laid, I know). Our conclusion was that, even if a singularity ended up being formed, it would be billions of times smaller than an atom, and would decay almost instantly due to a phenomenom called Hawking radiation . The resulting implosion would barely register as a blip in the radar.
My suggestion, stop worrying about that and pushing fear porn. There's already enough of that to go around at the moment.
I agree with your assessment, but a reminder that only recently was Einstein's theory of black holes actually confirmed, and it's not like we have had the ability to actively study one so... If a micro black hole formed, we can only surmise what would happen.
But it's realistically just fear porn.