Experiments are collecting their first physics data - historic moment here! Watch the webcast, look at the photos - all live! http://twitter.com/CERN
Experiments are collecting their first physics data - historic moment here! Watch the webcast, look at the photos - all live! http://twitter.com/CERN
I'm too much of a geek.
Thus, a black hole created at rest at CERN devouring the earth would never be seen -- it would just fall down and let the pressure of earth push matter into it. Done properly, the webcam feed should show a pretty major earthquake that just keeps getting worse.
That cosmic rays also potentially produce black holes is also not a good argument against their production, but only against the danger they pose. A black hole with the mass of a few grams has a very tiny cross-section, and since momentum is conserved, would probably be moving very close to the speed of light. Should a cosmic ray hit earth and produce one, it would likely pass right trough earth without hitting any significant amount of matter or slowing down. This is of course also true for any black hole created at CERN -- The protons traversing the rings are doing so at roughly 0.99999999c. Should a black hole be created, it would leave the solar system in a rather short time, at least from it's perspective.
See also: http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/