Atom smasher

OK, I was watching Fox and Friends, (God forgive me for I have sinned. )

They were talking about the Hadron Collider (Big atom smasher), the guest was Michio Kaku. Anyway they were saying that while the idea there would be a giant black hole that would swallow us was highly unlikely, they had done some recalculations and that there would likely be tiny black holes created, but Michio Kaku said the black holes would only have the equivalent power of a fruit fly and they would pass through the earth and be gone without harm. My question, what would happen if one of them, or several of them were to pass through a human?

Just one of those dumb questions my mind creates.

Nothing. At most it might cause a single atom to decay, but you've got about 1000000000000000000000000 of them, so it doesn't really matter.

Every second of every day you're being bombarded by trillions of particles every second. They pass straight through you, mostly, but occasionally they might hit something and damage it. This could be one of the reasons we have mutations in DNA - if they hit a DNA molecule they could change it slightly.

So if one hits my daughter just right I might have a four headed grandbaby one day? Cooooool!

CarolinaHound wrote:So if one hits my daughter just right I might have a four headed grandbaby one day? Cooooool!

I guess you could move to Switzerland if you want to improve your odds of getting hit.


Actually, I heard about someone putting their hand in front of one of the beams - not at the LHC, but another one. Had such bad radiation damage they needed it amputated.

Kazza wrote:

CarolinaHound wrote:So if one hits my daughter just right I might have a four headed grandbaby one day? Cooooool!

I guess you could move to Switzerland if you want to improve your odds of getting hit.


Actually, I heard about someone putting their hand in front of one of the beams - not at the LHC, but another one. Had such bad radiation damage they needed it amputated.

I could just imagine the conversation before that happened...... I dare you, no I double dare you. Come on you know nothing bad is going to happen.