Posted on 04/03/2008 12:48:33 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Contrary to the somewhat feverish claims laid out in an recent lawsuit, when our favorite particle-smashing, Force-finding Large Hadron Collider is switched on soon it will not result in the destruction of life as we know it. Such claims are "complete nonsense" say the scientists at CERN (and everywhere else,) in response to the suit. They should know: it's their machine, they designed it and they've been telling everyone for a while that their research shows it's safe.
The lawsuit filed by a group of Hawaii residents is alleging that not enough safety checks have been made by CERN to prevent disaster when the LHC goes live in the coming weeks. It may "create unsafe conditions of physics" which may have disastrous effects. How? Well, you may imagine a micro black hole gobbling up everything unstoppably, while a strangelet (a hypothetical clump of particles including strange quarks) may run amok converting all nearby matter into strange matter, also wrecking the Earth.
James Gillies, a CERN spokesman, suggests this is rubbish in this response to the New Scientist: "The LHC will start up this year, and it will produce all sorts of exciting new physics and knowledge about the universe." It's no threat at all, he says: "A year from now, the world will still be here." The LHC is actually designed to probe the boundaries of physics, and while a 2003 safety study did conceed that micro black holes or magnetic monopoles may be formed, they would be short-lived and offer no threat.
CERN physicists will be talking about safety in an open house discussion on April 6. [New Scientist]
“A year from now, the world will still be here.”
Of course!
But what he conveniently fails to mention is that it would take a micro black hole slightly OVER a year to swallow enough mass to become a threat to the planet.
;)
Petronius,
After a post like that, we must report...
Morons: 1
CERN: 0
This is stupid. Everyone knows that the Universe ends as a result of new fuel tested by the Tralfamadorians, not humans. Duh!
Best description of the 2008 election yet!
Wait a second!
How are you posting to me with my own screen name?!?!?!?!
“How are you posting to me with my own screen name?!?!?!?!”
Simple!
Time travel.
I’m pretty sure this is what causes duplicate posts, too.
Sorry. Should have pinged both of you...
I just hope they do not fire this off on Dec 21,2012.
Hm, isn’t that the end of the Mayan Long Count?
But my pet rock can be very dangerous, if mishandled.
Time travel ?
I travel through time every time I post. One moment, I’m in Pacific. Another, I’m back in Central.
FR is a space-time wormhole continuum all unto itself.
CERN said it will pay damages if the earth is swallowed up by a black hole.
Of course it will be a disaster!
Factor in the aliens of the demonic deception arrayed outside our multiverse just awaiting to land and institute the anti-Christ.
The Illuminati and Bilderbergs along with the Club of Rome and the CFR got the technology from the great high Alien OverLord in area 54 (or 40) and now, just when we use it, they will take over. /s
(just kidding)
heh heh...
Strange quarks running amok is a definitely possibility. Since no party affiliation was mentioned, they are sure to be Democrats.
Time travel.
Actually this is a bit troubling.
Either:
A) Time travel is impossible because no one has come back to tell us it isn't.
-or-
B) CERN really does blow up the world in a few weeks.
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