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Sameer Kumar

Sameer Kumar — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

LHC at CERN is trying to do something that is awesome and amazing. If a Black Hole is formed, then there is no doubt we will all vanish in less than a second and we will not even know hat hit us. But the particle collider holds immense opportunity for us to understand the basic constituents of matter and primitive conditions of the universe. It will litrally be a jouney back in time, if it works right. Maybe it will even open a few worm holes for that millionth of a second... the possible first step towards time travel!

Anyway, very nice write up indeed.

Yash

Yash — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It too over $8bn and a decade and half to build the LHC. The objective of the LHC is to create conditions and energies last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and then scientists would sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature. This may sound exciting for some but Greek for the majority of people who couldn’t care less about what is the latest from research in boring physics.

I tend to agree with Wagner and Sancho, the guys who filed the doomsday lawsuit that the scientists at CERN have not come out with all the possibilities following such experiments. If the earth is at the minutest risk of being destroyed it must be stopped unless methods to make it 100% safe.

Else, no experiment no matter however groundbreaking it is, is not worth the risk.

Royston

Royston — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Seems you have already jumped into a conclusion that the LHC is going to eat up the earth. On what basis do you say so? There are substantial doubts on whether the blackholes created won’t evaporate or the earth’s gravity won’t have any effect on them.

Such experiments are inevitable should we seek the survival of the human race when the Earth starts becoming inhabitable for life as the Sun ages. We would need to travel to distant galaxies to find a home for ourselves.

Though I might add that waiting could mean a possible future visit on Earth by an aliens willing to share time-travel technology with us. :P

Meital

Meital — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Scientists are inherently eccentric and are obsessively goal oriented. Thus the world generalizes them as madmen. They are perfectly able to hide or downplay any possible hazard than an experiment might result in. This is so ambitious a project where billions of dollars have been pumped in, it is impossible to expect that the scientists will come out with the whole truth.

The lawsuit is necessary to get full information about the possible hazards the LHC poses that includes the earth turning into a ’strangelet’. Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho have my full support. The earth faces a clear and present danger - much higher than the magnitude that we could ever imagine resulting out of a thermo-nuclear war between USA and Russia in the form of this physics research lab.

Ezana

Ezana — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If the end comes in a flash I won’t mind much. In any case we are moving towards slow painful deaths either by disease or by war or by old age. If this ends the world before anyone can even feel it I think it will be a boon for us.

Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Statements like; “LHC being designed to probe the boundaries of physics, and while a 2003 safety study did concede that micro black holes or magnetic monopoles may be formed, they would be short-lived and offer no threat”, are highly dangerous.

But if it has to end the way it is destined to, it would be. Everything is written.

One more thing. I can bet my arse off that this lawsuit is doomed to fail. No lawsuit of this nature can ever be successful especially when it comes to stalling pioneering research in foreign lands.

If America threatens to bomb the facility then the scientists there can threaten complete annihilation but setting it off without controls on.

LOL!