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German fails to prove atom-smasher will end world
yahoo ^ | Tue Mar 9, 12:12 pm ET

Posted on 03/09/2010 4:59:50 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Religion; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: stringtheory
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To: madamemayhem
#2 does anyone know if there is any correlation to that atom smasher starting up and the recent earthquakes?

No, but I heard they've been tinkering with this:

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21 posted on 03/09/2010 5:51:31 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: Touch Not the Cat

Never lead your life through fear and ignorance; it’ll make you think everyone else is just trying to be a smartypants.


22 posted on 03/09/2010 6:24:02 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

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Don’t worry about me FRiend.


23 posted on 03/09/2010 7:21:52 PM PST by Touch Not the Cat (You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory; it is better to perish than to live a slave)
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To: randog

Man, I miss that photo! thanks for the good memories.


24 posted on 03/10/2010 12:37:35 AM PST by BenKenobi (And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.)
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To: Atom Smasher

Is there something you wanna tell us??


25 posted on 03/10/2010 12:40:07 AM PST by sit-rep
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To: sit-rep

Alas...


26 posted on 03/10/2010 3:21:43 PM PST by Atom Smasher
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