If only Fox News' world *would* end

As if the wingnuts of the world need more to worry about, Fox News has decided to once again beat the dead horse of the doomsday theories concerning the Large Hadron Collider.

Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.

"We conclude that ... the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible. Nonetheless, it remains true that the expected decay times are much longer (and possibly >> 1 second) than is typically predicted by other models," the three state in a brief paper posted at the scientific discussion Web site ArXiv.org.

FoxNews.com can think of a few other things that didn't seem possible once — the theory of continental drift, the fact that rocks fall from the sky, the notion that the Earth revolves around the sun, the idea that scientists could be horribly wrong.

They forgot one other thing that didn't seem possible once -- that Fox News wouldn't be written by a bunch of fear-mongering idiots who don't seem to understand anything about reality. Oh, wait, that isn't possible.