“In any case, the collider won’t be in a position to create any type of black hole for months. The scheduled Sept. 10 turn-on would circulate only one beam of protons around the LHC’s 17-mile-round ring at low energy. The first low-energy collisions won’t occur until at least a month from now, and the device won’t achieve its top collision energy until next year. That’s why the courts are not rushing to rule on the critics’ claims.”
