German fails to prove atom-smasher will end world

yahoo ^ | Tue Mar 9, 12:12 pm ET

[Touch Not the Cat]

BERLIN (AFP) – A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher.

The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's appeal because she was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about."

"The overwhelming scientific opinion is that the experiments carried out at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) present no dangers," the court added.

CERN scientists are looking to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to mimic the conditions that followed the Big Bang and help explain the origins of the universe.

Housed inside a 27-kilometre (16.8-mile) tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border, the collider was started with great fanfare in September 2008, only to break down after nine days for the next 14 months.

It was shut down again in December, this time to ready it for collisions at unfathomed energy levels which began last month.

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The woman, who has not been named and who lives outside Germany, failed with an injunction with a Cologne court seeking to oblige the German government to stop the project.

Other opponents have also sought to stop the collider, fearing either a black hole whose super-gravity would swallow the Earth or a theoretical particle called a strangelet that would turn the planet to goo.

[Touch Not the Cat]

The woman has not been named and lives outside Germany...

Someone famous perhaps?

[max americana]

Silly woman..didn’t she know that the world will explode due to global warming?

[madamemayhem]

two things:
#1 your screen name is the title of one of my all time favorite books.
#2 does anyone know if there is any correlation to that atom smasher starting up and the recent earthquakes?

[robomatik]

lhc rap song

. yeah, yeah, yeah. i've posted it before. but... it's got a ring to it.

[samtheman]

What’s the propagation speed through the earth? To the other side of the world. If it does happen.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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The court has ruled that CERN is okay.

But for some reason that doesn’t make me feel any better about all this.

But then — I’m certainly no rocket scientist.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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If it’s the one I’m thinking of — shes’ cute.

[MaxMax]

It should be painless.

[chopperman]

She’s going against a ‘consensus’. Where have I heard that before?

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Gee....thanks....

[SunkenCiv]

An update. Thanks Touch Not the Cat.

A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher. The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's appeal because she was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about."

What, court cases have to be coherent now?

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[Brilliant]

It is true that they are doing what no one has ever done before with particle accelerators. However, they’ve been doing that for at least 60 years.

[robomatik]

they’re all cute. ;)

[CodeToad]

Ignorance is annoying.

[onedoug]

It happens all the time with cosmic ray/particle collisions in the upper atmosphere. It would just be nice to analyze what’s going on therein.

We could have built a competetive machine in Texas some years ago, but Congress killed it.

[Arthur McGowan]

If it happens, it will happen so fast that we’ll never know.

Or, perhaps it’s already happened, and we simply can’t tell from inside the Black Hole.

[Birdsbane]

She failed in her rendering of the events and or circumstances necessary to produce an Earth eating black hole, but the scientists haven’t proven that it will not happen, and the judge sits on the fence.

[onedoug]

Thanks as always for the ping.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. :’)

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Even more annoying than hubris, I guess.