black hole 2

i was talking to one of my CERN friends the other day, and he killed the little theory that i was talking about a few weeks back.

first, if the LHC did create a black hole, it would be tiny. really tiny. and these things grow very slowly when they're small, apparently. so slowly that everyone on Earth would not, in fact, die at the same time. it would take weeks, maybe months.

and then, it turns out that dying in a black hole is not so painless after all. what apparently happens is that your body gets stretched, really stretched. so quite painful, in fact. although admittedly, this would be relatively quick. relatively. the really painful part, my friend said, would be for the people seeing your body being stretched so much, knowing that in some time, it'd be their turn. great.

so maybe this isn't the solution to all our problems after all... typical.