Large Hadron Collider = The End For Earth???

[Kärnfysikern]

There is one argument that kills the entire idea. Cosmic rays of far higher energy hits the eart contionously and have been doing so for earths entire existance, we have still not been consumed by a black hole So Id say we have nothing to worry about.

This is a nice article about the highest energy cosmic ray we have so far picked up
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/
Its just unbelivably silly how much of a punch that little ****er packed.

[Flagg]

I can't wait until they find out if Dark Matter exists or not. If it does, the implications could be phemonal. It would tell us more about the Universe, and just think of what could be done with Dark Matter...maybe a new energy source?

What I find quite amusing is how when the Haddon Collider is turned on, how time travel windows will open up from the future!

[Flagg]

September 10th is when LHC is being turned on!!

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archi...aspx?GT1=43001

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If the schedule holds, the collider on the French-Swiss border will make a splash at 9 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) Sept. 10, a week after a federal judge in Hawaii begins hearing a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit claiming that the device could destroy the world. Over the past few months, scientists at CERN (and the federal government) have laid out their case that a globe-gobbling catastrophe could never happen. Nevertheless, the court proceedings could provide a sideshow for the main event. Or they could be finished up by that time.

"The LHC is the world's most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010. Housed in a 27-kilometer tunnel, it relies on technologies that would not have been possible 30 years ago. The LHC is, in a sense, its own prototype.

[JTankers]

There is one argument that kills the entire idea. Cosmic rays of far higher energy hits the eart contionously and have been doing so for earths entire existance, we have still not been consumed by a black hole So Id say we have nothing to worry about.

Several prominent physicists who do not appear to display a competent understanding of LHC Safety issues proclaim that more powerful cosmic rays harmlessly strike Earth regularly proving safety. This argument is nonsense.

Stable micro black holes created by cosmic ray collisions with Earth would travel through Earth at nearly the speed of light, leaving the Earth unharmed. CERN’s LHC Safety Assessment Group acknowledged this in a March 2008 email.

[Kärnfysikern]

Several prominent physicists who do not appear to display a competent understanding of LHC Safety issues proclaim that more powerful cosmic rays harmlessly strike Earth regularly proving safety. This argument is nonsense.

Stable micro black holes created by cosmic ray collisions with Earth would travel through Earth at nearly the speed of light, leaving the Earth unharmed. CERN’s LHC Safety Assessment Group acknowledged this in a March 2008 email.

Seriously did you just sign up on a bodybuilding forum just to bash LHC

Rössler is not taken serious by (m)any particle physicists as far as I know. If he cant even raise a objection scientificly rigorus enough to be cause for concern for experts in the field I se no reason to worry.

Now the point of building these things are to find unkown things, if we know what we where going to find there is no point in building it. That means no one can promise that nothing will happen since its impossible to promise things about whats not known. But if the danger according to Rössler is all due to his own work on the schwarzschild metric http://www.achtphasen.net/index.php/...rsity_of__2008 then I wont stay awake at night.