mtv, jail time, and black holes!

Bennie and I were cited for maintaining a disorderly house on Saturday night/Sunday morning. There were no more than fifteen people there and along with the outrageous number of officers (6) responding to (actually we found out there was no noise complaint), there was a camera crew from MTV filming a show called "Busted." Bennie and I declined to participate in the show. We're going to talk to the City Attorney on Wednesday as we have a variety of issues regarding the incident. Will keep you posted.

This all could be, of course, moot after Wednesday. The Large Hadron Collider (black hole machine) is being turned on for the first time this Wednesday in Switzerland. Although there is basically a consensus regarding the safety risk being non existent among scientists, just the mere fact that there is even a question is exciting. An American filed a lawsuit attempting to stop the machine.

"The more matter a black hole pulls in, the stronger it becomes. And that's what worries Walter Wagner, the American who is suing to temporarily stop the project. He says the creation of these black holes here on Earth, no matter how small, may unleash a chain reaction that could destroy the planet.

Wagner says there's a possibility that black holes could just get bigger and bigger as they pull more and more matter into themselves.

'Eventually, all of Earth would fall into such growing micro-black-holes, converting Earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon, satellites, and the (International Space Station),' according to court papers Wagner, along with a citizen of Spain, filed in Honolulu.

In other words, Wagner asserts the LHC is a machine that will end up causing the Earth to eat itself -- perhaps in less than a century."

I don't know who this Wagner character is, but let's all wait and see. This news really makes me wonder what I'm doing at work right now.