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Last post: 5 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Apr 10, 08, 3:23 p.m.
- Spookyhome
Hench, thats it. 2009 is rumoured to be 1PC... potentially, which either shows how far we've come scientifically (ie we can now command things of this universe which are of equal, or greater significance than God's own son walking the earth), or how far removed we are from a religious mindset (ie that we can dare to liken a giant scalectrix under a mountain as somehow being of equal, if not greater significance to God's son walking the earth).
The story got 404'd within minutes. See you in 1PC, maybe.
- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 3:27 p.m. – Permalink
- ukit
A giant particle accelerator that mimicks the effects of the "Big Bang" could destroy all life on Earth by sucking it into a black hole, a lawsuit claims.
Walter Wagner, who runs a botanical garden on Hawaii's Big Island, and Luis Sancho, a Spaniard, have asked for an injunction to prevent the European Centre for Nuclear Research, or Cern, starting up the Large Hadron Collider.
A scientist works at the Cern's Large Hadron Collider
Physicists hope that the £4 billion device will provide clues to the universe's originsThe accelerator, which will be the world's most powerful particle smasher, is due to begin hurling protons at each other at its base outside Geneva this summer.
Physicists hope that the device, which has taken 14 years and £4 billion to build, will provide clues to the universe's origins by mimicking its condition a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
Although Cern scientists have already ruled out the possibility in a safety review, Mr Wagner and Mr Sancho say there is at least a small chance of total annihilation of the planet and maybe the universe.
They claim Cern has under-played the chances that the collider could produce a tiny black hole or a particle called a "killer strangelet" that would turn the Earth into a shrunken lump of "strange matter".
Their lawsuit, filed in the Federal District Court in Honolulu, seeks a temporary restraining order banning Cern from finishing the accelerator until it has produced a safety report and an environmental assessment.
Defendants named in the suit are Cern, the US Department of Energy, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the National Science Foundation. The US Justice Department said it would represent the Energy Department at a meeting over the lawsuit in Hawaii in June.
Cern is not bound by an American court's jurisdiction, but Mr Wagner said a restraining order on Fermilab and the Energy Department, which helped to supply the accelerator's crucial super-conduction magnets, would be enough to stop the programme.
A spokesman for Cern said the lawsuit's claims were "complete nonsense". "Much higher energy collisions than those at the LHC occur in nature, because cosmic ray particles zip around our galaxy at close to the speed of light," he said.
"The moon has undergone such collisions for five billion years without being devoured by a ravenous black hole or killer strangelet."
- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 3:28 p.m. – Permalink
- Spookyhome
"Walter Wagner, who runs a botanical garden on Hawaii's Big Island, and Luis Sancho, a Spaniard..."
And what do you do, Walter...
"I run a botancial garden"
and you Luis, what do you do...
"I'm a spaniard"- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 3:30 p.m. – Permalink
- set
I think either they are completely crazy in proceeding with a random experiment that could potentially cause any number of unimaginable consequences.
Or that some power some where knows exactly what it will achieve and it is the deliberate first step towards a paradigm shift in global consciousness eg. time travel/manipulation, dimensional travel/communication, faster than light travel, space warping etc etc
Fascinating but scary if its all genuinely a gamble
- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 3:32 p.m. – Permalink
- Spookyhome
Its okay though, becuase some guy, who's a spaniard by trade, is tackling them on our behalf, that right Luis?
"Trust me, I've been a spaniard for twevle years now. I'll stop this crazy thing"
Thank you Luis.
- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 3:33 p.m. – Permalink
- Spookyhome
I'm thinking of shutting my studio down and going to live in the hils of Toledo to train with a master Spaniard in the ancient ways of, being, a Spaniard and stuff.
GASPATCHIO!!!!!! HOO! HOO! HOOHAHA!
Just some moves there, don't be alarmed by my heat. My Sexy Calor.- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 3:39 p.m. – Permalink
- skelly_b
This stuff is far from a random. Fermilab, the current largest particle accelerator, has been doing this kind of work since the 1960s. The kinds of things they are unearthing with these experiments are significant to physicists and those who interested in the workings of sub-atomic particles, most folks could care less.
I just went on a tour of Fermi a few weeks ago. What is going on down there is beyond me. But I support what they are doing, while I try to grasp the ideas they are researching.
- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 3:41 p.m. – Permalink
- Corvo
They want you to donate, starting at 10000 bucks:
http://www.lhcdefense.org/Home_P…- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 4:33 p.m. – Permalink
- mikotondria3
...the new physics discovered by these experiments will allow all of us to upload into the new dimensions previously seen and known as heaven, the afterlife, the psychic realms..The dead shall indeed be raised as we pass through McKenna's Omega point, and I for one can't wait to get out of this UniverseLite, with its puny 4d, limited colorspace and linear causality. Shit, all that acid I did was just a teaser - anyone who's serisously accidently (and you can only do it by accident), ingested FAR FAR FAR FAR TOO MUCH psychedlic substance at any particular time, and been thrown 1000 years into the future can understand where we're headed and vaguely how we can describe it.
Bitches just be playin' til the big PC...- Dog-earApr 10, 08, 4:39 p.m. – Permalink
