Scientists Sue LHC To Stop Possible DOOMSDAY Sept 10

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

The Large Hadron Collider - LHC at CERN Switzerland - is scheduled to start its engines on September 10, 2008


View of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment Tracker Outer Barrel (TOB) in the cleaning room The CMS is one of two general-purpose LHC experiments designed to explore the physics of the Terascale, the energy region where physicists believe they will find answers to the central questions at the heart of 21st-century particle physics


Assembly and installation of the ATLAS Hadronic endcap Liquid Argon Calorimeter The ATLAS detector contains a series of ever-larger concentric cylinders around the central interaction point where the LHC's proton beams collide

Checks are performed on the alignment of the magnets in the LHC tunnel It is vital that each magnet is placed exactly where it has been designed so that the path of the beam is precisely controlled

The ALICE Inner Tracking System during its transport in the experimental cavern and its insertion into the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment @ CERN) will study the physics of ultrahigh-energy proton-proton and lead-lead collisions and will explore conditions in the first instants of the universe, a few microseconds after the Big Bang

Insertion of the tracker in the heart of the CMS detector

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Coast To Coast George Noory - June 07, 2008 Nuclear Physicist Walter Wagner expresses his concerns and lawsuit to delay the turning on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Earth may be in danger if the LHC proceeds without further investigation "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could allow it to become a black-hole factory with a production rate as high as about one per second" (part 1 of 4)


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Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth
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Fear experiments could create 'vacuum' and consume planet

Net World Daily
September 01, 2008

http://wnd. com/index. php?fa=PAGE. view&pageId=74044

A European court says the idea a new supercollider project could create a "celestial vacuum" and eventually consume the Earth is worth discussing, but the project can move forward on schedule anyway

At dispute is what could happen should planned experiments at the supercollider built near Geneva by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, go awry when the massive atomic particle smasher is fired up about this time next week

Several scientists led by spokesman Otto Rossler, a German chemist, have filed a case in the European Court of Human Rights seeking a delay in the project's opening while the potential problems are studied further

Rossler said in a report in the Telegraph that the sponsoring organization has admitted its work will create black holes – but it doesn't think that will be a risk.
He has another opinion

"My own calculations have shown it is quite plausible that these little black holes survive and will grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside.
I have been calling for CERN to hold a safety conference to prove my conclusions wrong but they have not been willing," he said

WND also reported on an earlier lawsuit over whether the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which is built to slam protons together at an unprecedented peak energy of 14 trillion electron volts, could spark, literally, the end of the world

Critics at that time had filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government and the CERN.
A hearing is scheduled later this week in the case

Co-plaintiffs Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho said the collider could create black holes – or strangelets – that would grow and eventually consume Earth. A black hole is a region of space so dense that light cannot escape its gravitational pull.
Scientists have not proved the existence of strangelets, a hypothetical cosmological object containing an exotic form of matter

Physicists at CERN and similar research facilities dismiss the doomsday claims as nonsense

And a spokeswoman for the European Court of Human Rights told the Telegraph the latest lawsuit, brought by Rossler and others, had been lodged but a petition for an emergency injunction against the project was rejected

"There will therefore be no bar to CERN carrying out these experiments but the applicants can continue with this case here at the ECHR," she said

The goal of the project is to re-create the conditions scientists believe existed in a fraction of a second after the universe was created.
They are looking for evidence of the building blocks of life

The nearly $9 billion project has been funded by more than a dozen nations, and CERN spokesman James Gillies said "extensive safety assessments" have been completed

"The Large Hadron Collider will not be producing anything that does not happen routinely in nature due to cosmic rays," he told the Sunday Telegraph.
"If they were dangerous we would know about it already"

Other colliders already have been operating for years, but the CERN project is raising questions anew because of its size. It is a circular tunnel about 300 feet underground that runs for about 18 miles.
The more than 5,000 magnets inside are expected to accelerate tiny particles almost to the speed of light, dispatching them around the tunnel in one-11,000th of a second, according to the Daily Mail

The particles then will smash headon in collisions that will generate enough heat to melt a small car.
Scientists hope the collisions will produce new scientific information

Rossler said the scientists sought court help because CERN operators are not taking "all the precautions they should be in order to protect human life"