on the possibility of getting sucked into a black hole

Something that fascinates me: the current discussion about the opening of the CERN large hadron collider. From the NYTimes:

The world’s physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers will sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature.

But Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.” Their suit also says CERN has failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required under the National Environmental Policy Act.

I am obviously not qualified to even begin to understand the physics involved here. Maybe that’s why the idea of getting sucked into a black hole doesn’t bother me. But I think part of it is also that, well, it would just be such an absurd — and quick, right? — way to go that I almost don’t think I could be angry even if it were to happen. I mean, part of me might be like, OW, that’s a lot of gravity. But then the other part of me would be like, but isn’t this interesting? And I’d have to agree that yeah, it actually kind of is.