Particle Accelerator Will Destroy Earth, Claims Lawsuit

Posted by Chris Jensen | Mar. 28, 2008 09:40AM PST | 2708 views | 2 comments

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A lawsuit has been brought forth in Hawaii federal court by former nuclear safety officer Walter Wagner, demanding that the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN revisit safety standards at the soon-to-be-activated Large Hadron Collider.

Why? Something about it possibly destroying the planet.

From MSNBC:

"We're going to need a minimum of four months to review whatever they're putting out," Wagner told me on Monday. The suit seeks a temporary restraining order that would put the LHC on hold, pending the release and review of an updated CERN safety assessment. It also calls on the U.S. government to do a full environmental review addressing the LHC project, including the debate over the doomsday scenario.

Doomsday scenarios?

Runaway black holes: Some physicists say the LHC could create microscopic black holes that would hang around for just a tiny fraction of a second and then decay. Sancho and Wagner worry that millions of black holes might somehow persist and coalesce into acompact gravitational mass that would draw in other matter and grow bigger. That's pure science fiction, said Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York. "These black holes don't live very long, and they have microscopic energy, and so they are harmless," he told me.

 

Strangelets: Smashing protons together at high enough energies could create new combinations of quarks, the particles that protons are made of. Sancho and Wagner worry that a nasty combination known as a stable, negatively charged strangelet could theoretically turn everything it touches into strangelets as well. Kaku compared this to the ancient myth of the Midas Touch."We see no evidence of this bizarre theory," he said. "Once in a while,we trot it out to scare the pants off people. But it's not serious."

 

Magnetic monopoles: One theory suggests that high-energy particle collisions might give rise to massive particles that have only one magnetic pole - only north, or only south, but not the north-south magnetism that dominates nature. Sancho and Wagner worry that such particles could be created in the LHC and start a runaway reaction that converts atoms into other forms of matter. But physicists have seen no evidence of such reactions, which should have occurred already as the result of more energetic cosmic-ray collisionsin Earth's upper atmosphere.

Tags collider, lawsuit, cern, doomsday

Comments (2)

juan said

Mar 29, 2008 11:28 AM | Hide Comment | Collapse Thread

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The Earth will end one day, why not swallowed by a black hole?

cp said

Aug 24, 2008 06:05 PM | Hide Comment | Collapse Thread

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You recived some attention on this issue! See Attached For An Idea From Who. It will not be allowed. If it ever crossed your small brain. Trust me when I say such an event will not be contained to your planet.

This is an interesting question?

Why has the Bible been distributed through out this world?

Why has the Word of the Lord been translated in every language on the planet?

What is a parable?

Because!

In order to send a letter, a message, a communication through time and space and have it reach its intended recipient, the person it was intended! Always keeping in mind forever is a long time and no one knows who that person is, and when the message will be received! “No One Knows the Time When There Master Will Return

The place they live, the language they speak and where they are on this rock!

Well you get the message, do the math!!

Well Guess What?

What happens to the Bible once its purpose is fulfilled?

CP

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