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A powerful atom-smasher ! particle accelerator !
Today I read that there is a collider that could spell a real doomsday... it might have the power to produce micro black holes, open extra dimensions, produce killer particles known as strangelets, and all this could spell global catastrophe
Scientists said this is a one in 50 million chance... how do you feel about this one in a million chances that is to happen in August of 2008
HI Guys, I'm not sure why I can't post the link here but if you go to CNN and click on TECH and in the Search Box and type Doomsday Collider and click Search...
On the Top of the page WED/CNN News/CNN Videos, click on " CNN News" and click Search, it is the only page on CNN about Doomsday Collider.. the title is "some fear debut of powerful atom-smasher
I say if there is any chance of anything this bad, it should be destroyed. Maybe when we become space farring we can build one of these on a moon or planet, but not here on earth
We go about our lives every day with thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at major cities and ready to fire in minutes, but none of us thinks about that. The chance that the LHC will destroy Earth is so small that it's not even worth thinking about, but people have a way of blowing a 1 in 50 million chance completely out of proportion. This story is hyped by journalists who want to sell newspapers and often exaggerate the dangers to a public that doesn't have the knowledge to know better. And the 1 in 50 million chance was given to the RHIC in New York, not the LHC in Switzerland. In fact, reviews of the safety of the LHC have said that there is no danger at all of a doomsday scenario.
For some perspective, consider that the particle collisions they'll be creating in the LHC are happening all the time in Earth's atmosphere, but the Earth is still here.