Do you trust the LHC to be a safe or will it rip the fabric of time space and kill us all
After all they're not just tweaking a motherboard here they are shooting protons trying to create black holes, anti matter and looking for the God Particle ect...
GENEVA (AP) -- The world's biggest particle collider will start up next May, six months behind schedule. The Large Hadron Collider, eagerly awaited by scientists hoping it will reveal new secrets about the makeup of matter, will be inaugurated without the low-energy run that had been planned for November, said officials. ''We'll be starting up for physics in May 2008, as always foreseen, and will commission the machine to full energy in one go,'' said project leader Lyn Evans.
According to one scenario tiny black holes could be produced which hopefully would decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates). If these black holes fail to decay, however, the consequences could be disastrous. CERN software developer Ran Livneh has expressed some concerns about the project:
This physical realm is unknown, and dangerous phenomena might arise?Any physicist will tell you that there is no way to prove that generated black holes will decay. The consequences of being mistaken are unfathomable. This subject deserves serious unbiased discussion.
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this is exactly what happened on Praxis which caused damage to Kronos. Where's Gordon Freeman when you need him.
After all they're not just tweaking a motherboard here they are shooting protons trying to create black holes, anti matter and looking for the God Particle ect...
GENEVA (AP) -- The world's biggest particle collider will start up next May, six months behind schedule. The Large Hadron Collider, eagerly awaited by scientists hoping it will reveal new secrets about the makeup of matter, will be inaugurated without the low-energy run that had been planned for November, said officials. ''We'll be starting up for physics in May 2008, as always foreseen, and will commission the machine to full energy in one go,'' said project leader Lyn Evans.
According to one scenario tiny black holes could be produced which hopefully would decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates). If these black holes fail to decay, however, the consequences could be disastrous. CERN software developer Ran Livneh has expressed some concerns about the project:
This physical realm is unknown, and dangerous phenomena might arise?Any physicist will tell you that there is no way to prove that generated black holes will decay. The consequences of being mistaken are unfathomable. This subject deserves serious unbiased discussion.
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this is exactly what happened on Praxis which caused damage to Kronos. Where's Gordon Freeman when you need him.