The LHC must never be allowed to open!
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The LHC must never be allowed to open!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/scien ... lider.html
Two men [are] pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii. ... They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe.
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Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.”
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Scientists say that is very unlikely — though they have done some checking just to make sure.
That doesn't sound like a no!
Two men [are] pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii. ... They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe.
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Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.”
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Scientists say that is very unlikely — though they have done some checking just to make sure.
That doesn't sound like a no!
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Re: The LHC must never be allowed to open!
Jim, weigh in on these whackos.
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Re: The LHC must never be allowed to open!
This should clear the way for that bypass.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet
the "dangers" part of this is awesome. I say full steam ahead.
the "dangers" part of this is awesome. I say full steam ahead.
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Re: The LHC must never be allowed to open!
I'm pretty sure I just saw this in that Deja Vu movie with Denzel Washington. They use it to look back in time and zap pieces of paper into the past.
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Re: The LHC must never be allowed to open!
And what exactly kind of information do we get out of doing this stuff? Is it really worth the 8 billions dollars spent on building the machine and also risking the end of the universe to get this info?
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Re: The LHC must never be allowed to open!
We don't have the power to end the universe, nor this galaxy, nor this corner of the galaxy. All that we could destroy is our own tiny planet.
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Re: The LHC must never be allowed to open!
Well, we're mostly harmless, after all.ghostrunner wrote:This should clear the way for that bypass.
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