On November 27, 2006, the final superconducting main magnet was delivered to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- the most ambitious physics experiment ever created.Due to come online in November 2007, the LHC is the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. The giant underground loop of tunnels, magnets and detectors will be capable of replicating conditions just after the Big Bang, helping to answer questions about the nature of matter and the creation of the universe.
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Walter F. Wagner and his colleague Luis Sancho have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop work on the Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic atom smasher on the Franco-Swiss border that's set to start operations in May.
What Physicists claim:
Physicists hope its incredible energies will form briefly-lived new particles that could shed light on the origins of the universe, among other marvels.
What plaintiffs claim:
The plaintiffs' concerns? That the LHC could accidentally create strange new particles that would instantly transform any matter they touched, engulfing the Earth, or, even worse, make a rapidly expanding black hole that could consume the entire planet.
"The compression of the two atoms colliding together at nearly light speed will cause an irreversible implosion, forming a miniature version of a giant black hole," reads the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Honolulu.
"Any matter coming into contact with it would fall into it and never be able to escape. Eventually, all of earth would fall into such growing micro-black-hole, converting earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon, satellites, the ISS, etc."
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Pics here
Here is one pic of how it looks
To view the rest click on the link up top.
Walter F. Wagner and his colleague Luis Sancho have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop work on the Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic atom smasher on the Franco-Swiss border that's set to start operations in May.
What Physicists claim:
Physicists hope its incredible energies will form briefly-lived new particles that could shed light on the origins of the universe, among other marvels.
What plaintiffs claim:
The plaintiffs' concerns? That the LHC could accidentally create strange new particles that would instantly transform any matter they touched, engulfing the Earth, or, even worse, make a rapidly expanding black hole that could consume the entire planet.
"The compression of the two atoms colliding together at nearly light speed will cause an irreversible implosion, forming a miniature version of a giant black hole," reads the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Honolulu.
"Any matter coming into contact with it would fall into it and never be able to escape. Eventually, all of earth would fall into such growing micro-black-hole, converting earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon, satellites, the ISS, etc."
http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie … lideView=3
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342854,00.html
Modedit: COUNTDOWN TIMER AVAILABLE HERE
Link courtesy of stkhoplite. -DF
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