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Lawsuit stirs fear of 'strangelets' destroying the Earth
Market Watch ^ | June 12, 2008 | John Letzing

Posted on 07/01/2008 9:35:45 AM PDT by glymers

If all goes according to plan, a massive underground facility in Switzerland will begin smashing particles together later this summer in an effort to provide a clearer understanding of the physical universe than has ever before been possible. Known as the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, the project is composed of a 17-mile circular tunnel beneath Geneva, containing thousands of magnets meant to send beams of subatomic particles hurtling toward each other. The resulting collisions are expected to release matter similar to that present at the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

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KEYWORDS: callingartbell; cernsgiantmagnet; chickenlittle; hadroncollider; stringtheory; weredoomed
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To: glymers

I have a pet theory about why we have not detected/encountered any extraterrestial beings:
All intelligent/sentient species go through roughly the same process of scientific discovery, eventually getting to a point amounting to “what happens if I press this button...” and the entire planet evaporates, happening before the species achieves self-propogating interplanetary/stellar travel.

Recall the bets taken on whether the first H-bomb detonation would set the Earth on fire.


21 posted on 07/01/2008 11:32:03 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: ctdonath2

You just might be onto something there ... but if there have been more than our intelligence, arise on another planet, somewhere, then there probably have been so many such events that eventually one planet’s smarties would have anticipated the dangers and avoided them ... so why are we still not in touch with them? And why wouldn’t they go around the unioverse trying to prevent such planetary suicides?


22 posted on 07/01/2008 11:39:01 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
eventually one planet’s smarties would have anticipated the dangers and avoided them

Unfortunately, the planet's dummies eventually went ahead and tried the same experiment anyway.

why wouldn’t they go around the unioverse trying to prevent such planetary suicides?

Any species dumb enough to try a planet-evaporating experiment gets what it deserves, eh?

23 posted on 07/01/2008 11:52:01 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; ...
Thanks Ernest.

24 posted on 07/01/2008 11:52:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: glymers

If it’s the only way to stop the Islamo-fascists once and for all then it will be simply the ultimate “suicide bomb”..... /s


25 posted on 07/01/2008 11:56:36 AM PDT by Enchante (OBAMA: "That's not the Wesley Clark I knew!")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hit the red button Fritz. Nooooooo! Not that one....


26 posted on 07/01/2008 12:20:07 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Duncan Hunter was our best choice...Now we are left with a bunch of idiots.)
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To: glymers

I’m sorry but just how does a court in Hawaii have any jurisdiction in a science experiment in Geneva Switzerland? When did lawyers and the courts become all encompassing?


27 posted on 07/01/2008 12:24:07 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: glymers

Weird article. It started off talking about CERN, black holes and strangelets. Then it inexplicably degenerated into a discussion of hi-tech auctions and other tech industry news. Did a strangelet eat the author’s brain?


28 posted on 07/01/2008 12:26:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: glymers
Filed in Hawaii by physicist Walter Wagner, the lawsuit warns that the LHC could conceivably destroy the planet by engineering a lethal combination of black holes and so-called "strangelets."

This is the same argument that was made before nuclear tests were done in 1945.

The earth is already being bombarded by cosmic rays that are too powerful for us to measure. If Wagner's arguments are correct, the earth could never have formed. Nor any other object in our solar system.

29 posted on 07/01/2008 12:34:08 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Marine_Uncle

Hold my beer and watch this...


30 posted on 07/01/2008 12:54:20 PM PDT by listenhillary (There's more people in the wagon, than there is pushin')
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Well,...there have been measurements...see post #13 ...on the

The Oh-My-God Particle


31 posted on 07/01/2008 1:25:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Kozak

From what I understand from the article it is a violation of the EPA saftey hazards and public notification. This article was leaked to the press. We the people are not supposed to know about it. Many Countries are involved in this experiment.
Guess all the leaders will be in the doomsday vault in August.(SARC)


33 posted on 07/01/2008 2:47:34 PM PDT by glymers
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I don’t think the energy of any particles to be generated approaches what has been observed in the WILD!

LGE IMAGE.

Agreed...the ocean floors tell a story.

34 posted on 07/01/2008 3:36:31 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: listenhillary

Enjoy your beer. About time I popped a Coors Extra Gold Lager.


35 posted on 07/01/2008 3:49:58 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Duncan Hunter was our best choice...Now we are left with a bunch of idiots.)
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To: glymers
While the source of some decent Sci Fi TV passed off as reality (NatGeo), this isn't going to do much.
36 posted on 07/01/2008 4:26:13 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Oh my God. There goes Indochina!


37 posted on 07/01/2008 6:14:13 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug; SunkenCiv
Oh my God. There goes Indochina!

I'm more fascinated by the East coast of South America...

DEBUNKING PIRI REIS MAP(?)

Thereafter, the Piri Reis Map drifts into the Twilight Zone. It shows South America swinging far to the east. Given that the map so far has done fairly well in latitude, we can be sure the coastline is not Antarctica. Also, if the map draws on ancient knowledge to show things no 16th century explorer would have known, why is the coastline continuous? So why isn't there open water between South America and "Antarctica?" You can't seize on an accidental resemblance to a couple of bumps on the coast of Antarctica and blithely ignore the failure to show the Drake Passage! ...

Now, have a another look at that graphic I posted.

38 posted on 07/01/2008 7:23:26 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: glymers

Only a link and title of any material originating from USA Today can be posted.


39 posted on 07/01/2008 7:35:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Those are not the highest energy particles.

Each new generation of detectors so far have detected particles right to the high energy limit of their detection range.


40 posted on 07/02/2008 10:03:52 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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