Legal bid to stop CERN from destroying the world

On the Telegraph website, on the 31st of August 2008, there is an article about a legal bid to haut the CERN particle accelerator from starting up because of the possibility of mini black holes destroying the earth. It says,

Critics of the Large Hadron Collider - a £4.4 billion machine due to be switched on in ten days time – have lodged a lawsuit at the European Court for Human
Rights against the 20 countries, including the UK, that fund the project.

Professor Otto Rössler, a German chemist at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen who is one of the most vocal opponents of the LHC and was one of the scientists who submitted the complaint to the court, said: "CERN itself has admitted that mini black holes could be created when the particles collide, but they don't consider this a risk.

"My own calculations have shown that it is quite plausible that these little black holes survive and will grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside. I have been calling for CERN to hold a safety conference to prove my conclusions wrong but they have not been willing.

"We submitted this application to the European Court of Human Rights as we do not believe the scientists at CERN are taking all the precautions they should be in order to protect human life."

Professor Rössler claims that, in the worst case scenario, the earth could be sucked inside out within four years of a mini black hole forming.