Does the Large Hadron Collider worry you ?

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If you were in a ship orbiting a star that became a black hole, the ship would sail on and on in orbit as if nothing happened. Gravity at any given distance from its point mass remains the same as before. It is just bunched together, to perhaps zero volume - a singularity.
Kepler's three Laws of Planetary Motion
Gravity
Inverse Square Law

The singularity of black holes point out faults or limitations with the physics models we now have, mainly infinite density in a zero volume, the yin/yang of zero and infinity. The Riemann Sphere where North is a point at infinity and the south pole is 0 and touches the origin on the complex plain, is one way to equate 0 and infinity and allows us to deal whith 1/0 = infinity and 1/infinity = 0. We are going to need more general theories, such as the quantom theory of gravity to tie it all together. Perhaps one day, black holes won't be looked on as singularties. And hopefully the LHC will answer part of that.
Riemann Sphere

In ancient times it was thought that Q, the rational numbers a/b, b ~= 0 was enouf untill the Pythagorean theorm (a^2 + b^2 = c^2) applied on a simple square whose sides measured 1, s=1, 1^2+1^2 = 2 forced taking the square root of 2, the squares diagonal. The square root of 2 produces 1.414213562, a number that can not be representd by Q. This lead to the discovery of Irrational Numbers, numbers with non-repeating decimals, and the first step up the ladder of infinity. Looks like black holes are doing the same thing again, and forcing us to think outside of the box.

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