Ok I know this blog isnt exactly relatated to PC tech stuff but its still none the less interesing.
LHC is short for Large Hadron Collider . The LHC is the worlds largest particle accelerator and is located at Geneva in Sweden, When the LHC is first put into use, it is theorized that the collider will hopefully produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and what the scietists really hope to find are some "missing links" in the standard model of physics and could explain how other elementary Particles acquire properties such as mass .The conformation of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force & the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitational force is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized particles that could be produced, and for which searches are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes ,magnetic monopoles and super symmetric particles. Another pretty interesting thing they hope to find out is Are there extra dimensions? Or can extra dimensions been seen just like it is described by string theory, and would we be able to interact with them at all.
When I was reading up on this I came across a section about how the creation of micro black holes and strangelets could spell a possible doomsday situation. When I read that bit I thought to myself "oh yeah black holes are good , so why do we want to risk making them anyway" , but then further down in the section one scientist had already challenged the "doomsday" theory by saying that over the million or so years of earths existence that there could have already been countless interactions between the particles needed to make these black holes and strangelets and so far we are still here so the the event of causing one is a small as the chance of it happening in nature. I think the chance was something like 1 in 50,000,000
Still all this mucking around with technology and things that we don't really know much about seems kind of reminiscent of a certain FPS.
Resonance Cascade anyone?
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The actual risks are probably closer to 0% or closer to 100%. CERN is betting closer to 0%, the lawsuit calculates possibly 75% with a very high degree of uncertianty.
Did you know that CERN predicts creation of up to 1 micro black hole per second at the Large Hadron Collider, due to begin collissions later this year? But CERN believes this is safe because they believe that micro black holes will evaporate before they grow.
But don't tell that to the following physicists who published peer reviewed papers that strongly question claims that micro black hole might evaporate before they grow:
Dr. Adam D. Helfer: xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0304042
Dr. William G. Unruh and Prof. Ralf Schützhold: arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/
0408/0408009v2.pdf
Prof. V.A. Belinski: ingentaconnect.com/content/els/
03759601/1995/00000209/00000001/
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Dr. Adam D. Helfer: arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0503/0503052v1.pdf
But CERN also claims that [if] micro black holes are created, and if they do not evaporate, surely they will grow so slowly as to not pose any concievable threat to Earth during its expected 5 billion year life expectancy. (They promise work to prove this soon).
But don't tell that to Dr. Otto E. Rossler, he predicts possible destruction in a little as 50 months: wissensnavigator.com/documents/
OTTOROESSLERMINIBLACKHOLE.pdf
Am I concerned? You bet!
JTankers
LHCConcerns.com
Deja Vu... I heard that when the first A bomb was being created physicists were debating whether there would be a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere and perhaps even the oceans.
Obviously it didn't so they were correct to deduce that the risk to our planet was "acceptable".
I wonder if there are planets somewhere where a weapon test went wrong? I wonder what caused the asteroid belt in our solar system? :-)
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