Scientists: Atom-smasher Won't Bring Armageddon
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TechnologyScientists: Atom-smasher Won't Bring ArmageddonScientists: Atom-smasher Won't Bring ArmageddonThe Associated PressThe most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures. (June 28)[Notes:Dateline: MEYRIN, Switzerland] It's being called the largest scientific experiment in history ...And some say one that **could** cause Armageddon.This five-point-eight billion-dollar machine is designed to break up atoms ...It's called the Large Hadron Collider or L-H-C ... An underground tunnel 17 miles wide ... Attached to several particle detectors the size of office buildings. Those detectors will look for signs of invisible dark matter ... a so-far undiscovered particle smaller than the atom....one scientists believe gives matter mass.But critics say this mammoth machine **could** destroy the world.That's because ... By the end of the summer ... the Collider is scheduled to generate energies seven times higher than any other machine in history. [Notes:SOUNDBITE Lyn Evans, LHC project leader, CERN: "I think, obviously, we have no concerns at all, there is a huge community of scientists who know what they are talking about and are sleeping quite soundly concerning the LHC. But nevertheless, this creates problems in the general public who are seriously concerned, and we have to answer to that."]Concerns that these scientists don't know exactly **what** will happen when they flip the switch.Critics say that smashing atoms at ninety-nine-point-nine percent the speed of light might cause the fabric of the universe to fold up on itself .. But scientists here are brushing off those concerns.They say cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth at much higher energies since the solar system formed four-point-five billion years ago. [Notes:SOUNDBITE John Ellis, CERN Theoretical Physicist: "The LHC is only going to reproduce what nature does every second, it has been doing for billions of years, and all of these astronomical bodies including the earth and the sun, they are still here. So there really is no problem, but if people are concerned about it, we will certainly discuss."] The European Research center reviewed safety issues of the Collider in 2003 ... And said there was no way the device could trigger a catastrophic event. The center is expected to publish an updated review later this week. ___ ___, The Associated Press.
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| you're joking right? ( 2 weeks ago by Godtron) |
| you're joking right? |
| If a black hole is ... ( 2 weeks ago by GrimTrippin) |
| If a black hole is created there will be no humanity left to save unfortunately |
| yeah the chances ... ( 2 weeks ago by 547212436) |
| yeah the chances are 1 in a google |
| they still use tape ... ( 2 weeks ago by 547212436) |
| they still use tape to record data lol |
| Alright shut up, ... ( 2 weeks ago by thehero00) |
| Alright shut up, they turned the damned thing off, they found a glitch in it last week. |
| this shit is crazy ( 2 weeks ago by Cantjumpwit24) |
| this shit is crazy |
| So. This thing has ... ( 2 weeks ago by glamndring) |
| So. This thing has broke down twice already. Where is the inspectors to assure public safety and who is overseeing it, Canada? Just think, "they"? build this volatile machine and "they"? claim have no clue of the results or why they want such information then cite you for illegal fireworks or speeding. Fuck. |
| they will try again ... ( 2 weeks ago by bubbaUK) |
| they will try again on 21st december 2012 |
| The world was not ... ( 2 weeks ago by RobertsDigital) |
| The world was not created with a big bang and your atom smasher does not prove anything(it only proves what you see--science)....waste of time (i dont mean to sound rude but this is total bullshit) |
| Am I the only sane ... ( 2 weeks ago by massterra) |
| Am I the only sane 1 left? Is everyone completely fucking mad? Look at the size of that mammoth fucking machine and to what? take pictures so we what? KNOW how particles gain substance? Yeah, we deserve death as a species! Let's fuck the dying and starving kids and build a giant big bang pow machine instead. If this isn't proof that we aren't part of a loving God, than i don't know what can be. |
| really how can a ... ( 2 weeks ago by lbj18) |
| really how can a black hole form with out andy energy |
| these niggas is ... ( 1 week ago by diediedie852) |
| these niggas is insane in the membrane |
| we goin die love ... ( 1 week ago by conker139) |
| we goin die love you guys |
| Theoretically this ... ( 1 week ago by wylight) |
| Theoretically this thing can;t create a micro black hole, the energy is not nearly enough, and micro black holes are theoretical anyway. But if they do which I think they estimated it to be a 1 in 50 million shot, the black hole would dissipate in a micro second. The people who are claiming this is going to kill us all claimed the Heavy Ion Collider would do the same thing in the 90's and nothing happened. Most of the critics of this thing arn't even physicists. |
| expensive! ( 1 week ago by DragonToes13) |
| expensive! |
| Yeah everyone is ... ( 1 week ago by seriousRaver) |
| Yeah everyone is getting the wrong Idea, Like you said its been done before, probably the reason is because this is a bigger version of the H.I.C My theroy is that the worst will happen is just a simple explosion nothing major. |
| i agree with you ... ( 1 week ago by LakaiEmericaskater72) |
| i agree with you they should of put the money to the sick, the poor, everyone so they could get this place cleaned up here |
| y would we do ... ( 1 week ago by supurap) |
| y would we do something this dangerous there is some thing in life u dont mess with and this is one of them atoms dont get smaller... |
| still dont get this ... ( 1 week ago by zoonage) |
| still dont get this if the atoms are being smashedup into smaller particles then how would it form a black hole? or are black holes made form sub atomic particales? |
| we got to outlaw ... ( 1 week ago by TheDareDevil7) |
| we got to outlaw this machine it must be never allowed to be turned on |
| black holes form ... ( 6 days ago by MrPrestige310) |
| black holes form from stars or other massive objects if and when they collapse from their own gravity to form an object whose density is infinite. because atoms smashing together at such a high rate can cause the fabric of the universe to fold up on its self and form a black hole which will suck us all in and life as we know it will be gone! |
| i still dont think ... ( 6 days ago by MrPrestige310) |
| i still dont think man can make anything powerful enough to form a black hole |
| Um, sorry but Lyn ... ( 5 days ago by GARETHMOCHAN) |
| Um, sorry but Lyn Evans is a guy, the video is very wrong! lol |
| whered you get ... ( 1 day ago by ssjsongoku03) |
| whered you get these facts from? 50 months? how do you figure. |
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