{"id":2361,"date":"2008-09-09T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2021-03-15T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:41:05","slug":"whats-the-worst-that-can-happen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Worst That Can Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244170737499434034\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SMcJgD4m7DI\/AAAAAAAACFE\/xynZL2RXN5M\/s400\/z090908black_hole.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;What&#8217;s the worst that can happen?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 100%; color: var(--text-color);\">&#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t know, maybe it&#8217;ll create a black hole that will devour our planet.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Does that sound like <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bad science fiction<\/span>? It&#8217;s not.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Scientists<\/span> disagree about what will happen when the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">world&#8217;s largest atom-smasher<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fires up <\/span>for the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">first time<\/span>. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Most<\/span> think that it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">perfectly safe <\/span>and may give an indication of what conditions were present at the time the universe was created. A <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">few men of science<\/span>, however, believe that the process <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">will create tiny black holes<\/span> that will <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">grow increasingly larger<\/span> as they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">consume the Earth<\/span>. These men even tried to get a court order to stop the experiment from going forward!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">A tip of the brainiac covering to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jeff Parker<\/span> for the original link.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the worst that can happen?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t know, maybe it&#8217;ll create a black hole that will devour our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25977,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/25977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}