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| Great! We Are All Gonna Die :)) Gud Job! by Sammy107d(m): 11:26am On Sep 10, 2008 |
Large Hadron Collider is activated By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 9:01am BST 10/09/2008 Scientists have switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the device they hope will unravel some of the remaining mysteries of the universe. At 9.30 am local time (8.30 am British Summer Time), 300 feet below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, the most powerful particle accelerator ever built became fully operational. Full coverage of the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher Large Hadron Collider facts | How it works Legal bid to stop CERN atom smasher from 'destroying the world' The team was holding its breath in the countdown to the switch-on after a series of technical hitches, including problems with the cooling system. Will the Large Hadron Collider cause the end of the world? The £5 billion machine has been described as a 17-mile racetrack around which two streams of protons - building blocks of matter - run in opposite directions before smashing into one another. Reaching 99.99 per cent of the speed of light, each beam will pack as much energy as a Eurostar train travelling at 90 mph. The flashes from the collisions may help scientists reproduce the conditions that existed during the first moments after the Big Bang at the birth of the universe. Physicists hope to learn more about the origins of mass, gravity and mysterious dark matter. But concerns have been voiced - in particular by the German chemist Professor Otto Rossler - that black holes created by the LHC will grow uncontrollably and “eat the planet from the inside”. These claims have been dismissed by leading scientists, including Prof Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University who said that the LHC is “feeble compared with what goes on in the universe. If a disaster was going to happen, it would have happened already.” The switch-on saw the first stream of subatomic particles - known as Hadrons - circulating in the tunnel. The first collisions are expected in around 30 days. The LHC will produce beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches its design performance, probably by 2010. Faith that the collision will not have dire consequenses on earth has been based on unsubstantial deductions. Actual simulations of the effects has not been arranged for a collision of this magnitude. Scientists say that chances of the black hole destroying Geneva or earth is very slim. No matter how slim the chances, is it worth the risk? What do you think people? or should we just trust the scientists-they make our world better. Why was the project revealed to the world when it neared completion? the investment on 5billion dollars is egregious for the purpose of just answering the question about where we came from. Do you think politics is involved here?.  and i think im in the wrong forum. ignore |
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