The Large Hadron Collider: The End Of The Universe?
May 4th, 2008 by Giles SmithThis summer is looking to see one of the biggest forward jumps in science and technology since our early ancestors discovered that using a rock to smash something could be effective.
Scientists from all over the world are combining state-of-the-art science and engineering in one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted. Essentially, they are going back to basics, this time on a monumental scale. So what am I talking about?
We know that the universe started with a phoenomenal explosion and that all the material in our universe appears to have originated from a single point, but we still have a very poor understanding of what happened at the moment the Universe exploded into existance. The Large Hadron Collider will allow us to see what happened in the Universe moments after it’s creation. I should explain at this point that when I meant the scientists were going back to basics, they are actually just going to be smashing things together, primative in concept but definately not in practice.
The Large Hadron Collider is a large ring 27km in diameter, 100m underground at the CERN Laboratory near Geneva.
By smashing together Hadron Particles (Any particle that reacts to the strong nuclear force) the collider will be able to take ‘photographs’ of the resulting formation of hundreds of new particles. The aim is to find the elusive Higgs Boson which in turn will take scientists a step closer to unifiying the 3 fundamental forces of Strong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear and Electromagnetic (The Grand Unified Theory) and maybe even towards Einstein’s elusive goal of ‘The Theory of Everything‘.
The collider will not only be able to simulate the universe moments after the Big Bang, but can also be used to create very small Black Holes, allowing the scientists to further understand what happens at the Event Horizon of a Black Hole
There are many naysayers to this project, least of all religeous groups, who claim scientists are playing God; In my opinion, if there were a God and something like this would offend that God, then they shouldn’t have made us clever enough to work out what they were thinking. God’s own fault really…
Objections with a little more grounding include people who beleive that there is a posibility that a new Big Bang could be triggered thus wiping out our own Universe in an instant, or we could create a black hole that was big enough to start gobbling up everything around it. Both of which we wouldn’t even notice as the whole world would either cease to exist or be reduced to a singularity in an instant. Anyway the Large Hadron Collider doesn’t create anywhere near enough energy for either of those to be a posibility. (Oooo have you played Half Life?)
This video might explain things a little better than I have. It does however come with a warning, ‘All Creationists will be offended by this material’ - And so they should, idiots…
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May 4th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
The following summarizes my concerns…
CERN predicts the creation of up to 1 micro black hole per second in the Large Hadron Collider and references the 1999 RHIC safety study as proof of safety.
(Rebuttal: But the 1999 RHIC safety study only ruled out any possibility of colliders creating micro black holes based on knowledge at that time.)
CERN’ predicts that micro black holes will evaporate.
(Rebuttal: But Hawking Radiation has been disputed by no less than 3 peer reviewed studies that found no basis in science for such conclusions.)
CERN’ and Steven Hawking state that much greater energy cosmic ray impacts with Earth prove safety.
(Rebuttal: But higher energy cosmic ray impacts with stationary particles have net collision speeds less than the speed of light and send all particles created safely into space, while head-on collider collisions have net collision impact speeds at almost twice the speed of light and are designed to focus all the energy to a single point in space and particles created may be captured by Earth’s gravity.)
CERN promised to create and release an new safety report before the end of 2007.
(Rebuttal: CERN’s LHC Safety Assessment Group has concluded that particles created by cosmic ray impacts with Earth’s atmosphere are safely ejected into space and that micro black holes will evaporate, but CERN never released any safety reports created by their LHC Safety Assessment Group.)
CERN asserts that there is no risk to the planet, even though the Large Hadron Collider will create conditions not seen in nature since the first fraction of a second after the big bang.
(Rebuttal: But the legal action contends a 75% probability of risk with very high degree of uncertainty calculated by a scientist with a masters degree in statistics, and alleges that Chief Scientific Officer Mr. Engelen passed an internal memorandum to workers at CERN asking them regardless of personal opinion to affirm in all interviews that there were no risks involved in the experiments, changing CERN’s previous assertion of minimal risk.)
Professor Otto Rossler calculates that a single micro black hole could accrete the Earth is as few as 50 months and Dr. Rossler is world recognized as one of the most prestigious, most eminent, award winning scientists alive.
(Rebuttal?: But CERN has not scientifically refuted his calculations that I am aware of, CERN only promised Dr. Rossler that if they create stable micro black holes that they will stop the experiment. Will that be too late?)
The World might prevent a catastrophy if we delay the experiment until the promised safety studies are completed and peer reviewed.
(Rebuttal?: But then some scientists may not be the first to discover new science and some Nobel prizes may be lost.)
JTankers
LHCConcerns.com
May 4th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Correction…
CERN promised to create and release an new safety report before the end of 2007.
(Rebuttal: CERN’s LHC Safety Assessment Group [LSAG] has concluded that particles created by cosmic ray impacts with Earth’s atmosphere are safely ejected into space and [LSAG stated that they do not assume] that micro black holes will evaporate, but CERN never released any safety reports created by their LHC Safety Assessment Group.)
May 10th, 2008 at 4:21 am
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