This will calm your mind, then rile it up again, then calm it again.
1. If the LHC could create a black hole, it would "evaporate" almost immediately thanks to Hawking Radiation. Some numbers I read once suggested a black hole would have to be at least 1 cm in diameter before it could suck in matter faster than it would evaporate. This requires god only knows how many millions of full cargo ships of matter to create. A few protons' worth of mass won't do much.
Whew! But...
2. The LHC might also, however, create some kind of "strange matter". This matter would have to have two properties: A. It would have to be of lower energy than normal matter, i.e. a process to convert normal matter to it would have to release energy, like a fire or atom bomb, and B. It would have to act as a sort of catalyst such that by merely touching, or getting near, normal matter induces normal matter to convert to it.
Thus creating even a tiny amount would have horrific consequences, converting the planet to this state in a matter of seconds to days, depending on the rate. There'd probably also have to be a property, C, now that I think about it such that the reaction isn't so violent it blows apart the catalyzing strange matter, thus ending the runaway reaction before it gets anywhere.
Oh no! But...
3. The argument such a thing probably won't happen is that the upper atmosphere is struck with far more energetic particles than the LHC or any other conceivable machine could produce, all the time. Yet we're still here. So the physical possibility of such matter existing, or being creatable via such a process, is very small. I.e. it's been tested uncountable times over billions of years.
The response is, of course, the hyperbole that the LHC will create more energetic particles than at any time except 10 to the minus eight billionths of a second after the Big Bang. If true, then no such particles have actually hit the atmosphere.
However, the above is an exaggeration.
"Oh My God" particles are hitting the atmosphere all the time -- These are protons moving so fast they carry the energy of a 60 MPH baseball!
They are so close to the speed of light, in one year (to an observer), they would travel only "47 nanometers (5×10−24 light-years) less than a light-year in one year".
How they come about is still just theory, but nevertheless uncounted numbers have hit the Earth and Sun and other planets and we're all still here after billions of years.
. The Vatican operates as any government agencies do. You could guarantee that they have nasty little secrets hidden away from view. You can only speculate on what they are, though.I'm not following the logic here. Why wouldn't the Vatican Secret Archives hold secret matters pertaining to the Vatican? And again, while trying to avoid a Dan Brown hat - these are only the archives that they admit to have. A number of governments have been caught out in that potential lie.
