Tech | March 30, 2008 | 5 comments

Man ConCERNed with Scientific Construct

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/science/29collider.html?ex=1364529600&en=e0f3790b6598f9ca&...

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Walter Wagner is pressing for a lawsuit to keep CERN from using their 8 billion dollar Large Hadron Collider to create a scenario of what it was like a trillionth of a second after the big bang, for fear of a tiny black hole or conversion of Earth into strange matter. However, scientists have deemed such scruples insignificant. Let's hear from you: Is Wagner a "crackpot," or is this a genuine problem?
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5 comments // Man ConCERNed with Scientific Construct

  • Facedw
  • jhydo
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      jhydo  

    • What if by doing this they crack open the time continuum and fracture time itself. What would become of humanity as we know it, what will we be letting into our dimension.
      I just think this is Pandora's box, we all remember the hell raised in "Hellraiser"?

    • 4 years ago
  • orionray
  • Facedw
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      Facedw  

    • The title to this link is terrible, your going to scare all the half-wits. Besides the fact that the scientists at CERN have already been playing with energies powerful enough to blow Europe off the map and nothing has happened as of yet.

      what I will say as a physics student is that anything is possible but I think the people running CERN have put a lot more thought in to there experiments than the people running terminal 5 at Heathrow.

    • 4 years ago
  • mischabarrett
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      mischabarrett  
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    • An artificial black hole was simulated in a laboratory earlier this month by scientists using lasers at St Andrews University, in Scotland. But... this would seem to be the real deal. As the NY Times article points out, the case touches on an issue that has bothered scholars and scientists in recent years — how do we estimate the risk of groundbreaking new experiments? And who should get to decide whether or not to go ahead?

    • 4 years ago
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