This was a little too good to pass up. The International Herald Tribune today had an article about a court case in Hawai’i where they are suing the the U.S. Department of Energy, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the National Science Foundation and CERN to put a restraining order on them in hopes of preventing them from starting up the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva.

But Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth.

My favourite quote? “Scientists say that is very unlikely - though they have done some checking just to make sure.” [Tom, I think that means they’re double-checking the Engle Factor]