"Black holes have a reputation for rapacity. If a black hole is produced under Geneva, might it swallow Switzerland and continue on a ravenous rampage until the earth is devoured? It’s a reasonable question with a definite answer: no."
"...issues that flummoxed Einstein."
Brian Greene, a professor of math and physics at Columbia, is the author, most recently, of “Icarus at the Edge of Time.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12greene.html?em
Chris of Canberra queried, "If the world does end, who will do the Wikipedia entry about it?"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24320776-2,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
I last pondered these things on Sept. 12, 2008 at 11:30 a.m.,
but I posted the draft on Feb. 10, 2018, almost a decade later.
Now I'll have to do research to see what these links are about.
It's a NYT article about the Large Hadron Collider and Higgs Particles.
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