conspiracy wackos sue against LHCs artificial black hole

[bryce]

Let's all have sex.

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

check the pics

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

 

[Jeri]

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1260

The Swiss are famously neutral on nearly every major public issue of the day, except one: They really don’t want the world to collapse into an artificial black hole or convert into an uninhabitable mass of exotic matter.

That’s why the Swiss government is suing to halt the operation of the largest, most complex scientific instrument ever built: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was paid for and housed in part by the Swiss.

The first time I heard about this a while back, it made me wonder if I should have been feeling jittery, living next to Fermilab blissfully unaware all these years.

There already is a movie based on the subject; I came across it once, channel surfing.

 

[Messianni]

About the Large Hadron Collider, there's also the belief that it will create strange matter, and the strange matter will turn everything it touches into strange matter. The thing is, there's no proof that strange matter even exists.

Not to mention that higher energy collisions then what will happen in LHC occur in Earth's upper atmosphere all the time.

Granted, in those collisions, any resulting stuff is going to have a huge momentum and likely get flung way out into space... but even so, the point is that these sorts of interactions do occur in nature. The only difference at LHC is that it's in a contained environment where it can be studied, as opposed to cosmic rays striking the atmosphere.

Exactly. This has been studied multiple times, as stated above, and the reactions already occur in nature. Not only that but if these physicists really thought there would be something to concerned about they wouldn't do it. They do, after all, want to live.

There was a physist who was discussing this along with the law suit that he either started or is a part of on Coast To Coast Am, talk about coiencdence I was going to post a thread on this topic this morning after listening to the show and was pleased to see that there is already one. I'm sort of divided about the whole issue. On the one hand I can understand the scientists at CERN wanting to go through with this experiment but I can see why there would be opposistion as well and wanting to make sure this was absolutely safe before they brought the collider online. Its a scary situation to contemplate the possibities that COULD go wrong should something happen even in a controlled situation.

Anything you hear on Coast to Coast AM is about as accurate and reliable as The X-Files. It is not to actually be taken seriously, unless you wear your tinfoil hat while you sit by the radio.

Probably isn't a bad idea for all the eggheads to take a 2nd look at this. Just because you can do something thanks to tech breakthroughs doesn't mean it 's always a good idea.

Yep. There's more to this than the armchair physicists want to believe...

So are you saying we should leave it to the experts then who say there is nothing to worry about?

Um, yes, actually. They are, after all, experts. Unless you have some startling revelation about the LHC you would care to share with us?

Let's all have sex.

That's less likely for many here than the black hole.

 

[M'Sharak]

check the pics

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

Niiiiice!





But was that kladis I saw in one of those photos?

 

[flux_29]

When's it supposed to start working?

 

[Arrqh]

When's it supposed to start working?

September 10th. Press release here.

 

[Meredith]

When's it supposed to start working?

September 10th. Press release here.

Well if it does blow up the world, it will be one heck of a way for sept. 10th to one up, sept 11th.

 

[Lindley]

Yeah, whoever chose that date was either mocking the worriers or tempting fate, not sure which. Oh well, at least they're not turning it on in 2012....

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ Agreed, specifically December 21.

 

[Arrqh]

Yeah, whoever chose that date was either mocking the worriers or tempting fate, not sure which.

Or, you know, neither

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

Large Hadron Collider Rap Is a Hit
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/27/large-hadron-collider-rap-is-a-hit/