How long have we got left?

A fair few people are a bit worried about the experiments that are being planned for the LHC*. One of the more talked about possibilities is that of creating a black hole that would devour the Earth and everything on it.

Can it happen? What would we experience if it did? I answered a question along these lines that was posted over at my general stuff blog. Read my response here: How long have we got left?




* Large Hadron Collider