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slightly worrying? 3434 Responses
Last post: 2 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Sep 5, 08, 1:46 a.m.
- GiZounds
Large Hadron Collider could spell doomsday for Earth!
Monday, 01 September , 2008, 15:27
Last Updated: Monday, 01 September , 2008, 15:36Hadron_Collider
Washington: Some scientists are trying to stop the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from going into operation in nine days, saying that it might create black holes which could destroy the world.
The LHC, located 300 ft underground near the French-Swiss border, is a machine that is 17 miles long and cost 4.4 billion pounds to create.
When its switch is pulled on September 10, this atom-smasher will become a virtual time machine, revealing what happened when the universe came into existence 14 billion years ago.
New particles of matter are expected to be discovered, new dimensions found beyond the four known, as scientists re-create conditions in the first billionths of a second after the Big Bang.
But, some scientists fear that the massive machine will destroy our planet.
Experts even predict that millions of tiny black holes will be produced — baby brothers of the monsters gobbling up dust and stars at the heart of the galaxies.
That is why some scientists are now trying to stop the project with a last-ditch challenge in the courts.
- Sep 5, 08, 1:46 a.m. – Permalink
- hans_glib
Plus ça change...
When George Stephenson showed the world his new fangled steam engine the papers worried that people would pass out whwn travelling at speeds of 25mph
When Edward Teller proposed the H-bomb there was hysteria that the atmosphere would catch fire.
arsehole uninformed press love stirring up a panic
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 1:54 a.m. – Permalink
- GiZounds
yeah, I agree. There are a lot of articles i have found since that are a lot less sensationalist and explain it in more detail. They still do admit it could create 100's of mini black holes that will dissappear as quickly as they are made. I don't like the idea of temperatures that much hotter than the centre of the sun on this planet though.
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 1:58 a.m. – Permalink
- TheChewbacca
yeah well FUCK.
FUCK SALT.
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 2:06 a.m. – Permalink
- airey
luckily when the courts look to experts in the field they'll look no further than this bunch of half-arsed, semi-literate fools who somehow think a small article from a science website is going to let the understand the full complexity of such science huh…
worry more about a meteor hitting the planet. half the world has no early warning system as the australian government ended funding several years ago to this satellite / radar checkup. pretty good reason, without steve buschemi riding a nuke we have absolutely no defense against it. if it comes then light 'em up, you wont ever get a chance to worry about cancer. sleep tight.
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 2:11 a.m. – Permalink
- roundabout
Did anyone see the last Documentary to be made inside the Hadron Collider on BBC 4 last night. According to one of the presenters who worked on the Hadron Collider, management are going to go for a Full Power Run straight out of the box because it would take 4 months to heat up, and then cool down to the correct temperature before they can start shooting atoms at the speed of light.
Now I do not get me wrong, but having the most powerful devise on the face of the earth and not doing some low power run first just to check out the machine is maybe a bad idea, no. Even the scientist say they are not to sure what might happen. No shit.
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:02 a.m. – Permalink
- TheBlueOne
"In case you're still worried that the universe will wink out of existence in 5 days when they turn on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, rest easy: a new report from the LHC Safety Assessment Group says it ain't gonna happen. Or, as one physicist told me when I asked about this last month while researching my Petacentres article for Nature, "Look, it's a 10^-19 chance, and you've got a 10^-11 chance of suddenly evaporating while shaving."
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:06 a.m. – Permalink
- WeLoveNoise
when does it actually get turned on ?
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:10 a.m. – Permalink
- roundabout
The Big Bang Machine
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:16 a.m. – Permalink
- eatbreathdrive
Why is everyone here and everyone else out there worry about everything coming to an end anyway oneday? If you just understood that you are not going to live forever and whatever you own or however you know, whoever you are, will end up in peace. The idea is living a full and happy life and when you are gone, all they should say is, 'He was a good man'
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:26 a.m. – Permalink
- eatbreathdrive
Nairn, thumbs up man. I mean I survived the Air Forces, fuck the lunar insanity anyway. Those scientists have too much bloody time on their hands and very less financial support these days!
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:38 a.m. – Permalink
- WeLoveNoise
Nairn/eat i agree with u both but..............
"A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. visible light), can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon"
if i blackhole is created then what measures are there to destroy it.
answer = nothin because there is no way- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:40 a.m. – Permalink
- kezza_2
I'm not scared of it, but I do wonder why? I mean why spend billions if not trillions on something that will tell how the universe came into being? What happens when they find out, and they find out it wasn't that big a deal. Long after our civilization has gone someone will come across CERN and wonder what the fuck was that for? It's our Stonehenge.
Far to much of science seems to be about whether you can rather than whether you should.
Also I wonder who said, yep go ahead here's a fuck load of money, go build you partical thingy in the middle of Europe.
These scientists have shifty eyes if you ask me. BTW interesting program.
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:44 a.m. – Permalink
- WeLoveNoise
the real question that will bother people when they find out that big bang theory is correct is who put the original atoms there that create the original big bang
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:46 a.m. – Permalink
- eatbreathdrive
Yesterday's a history, Tomorrow's a mystery.. And Today, is just a gift. Cherish it people!
- Dog-earSep 5, 08, 3:47 a.m. – Permalink
