March 28, 200817 yr The end is near! http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061229/061229_lhc_hmed_6p.hlarge.jpg The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet. Representatives at Fermilab in Illinois and at Europe's CERN laboratory, two of the defendants in the case, say there's no chance that the Large Hadron Collider would cause such cosmic catastrophes. Nevertheless, they're bracing to defend themselves in the courtroom as well as the court of public opinion. The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is due for startup later this year at CERN's headquarters on the French-Swiss border! Stop the scientists before they destroy us all! That's what a Hawaii man with a background in nuclear physics is asking a court to do. The plaintiffs' concerns? That the LHC could accidentally create strange new particles that would instantly transform any matter they touched, engulfing the Earth, or, even worse, make a rapidly expanding black hole that could consume the entire planet. "[T]he compression of the two atoms colliding together at nearly light speed will cause an irreversible implosion, forming a miniature version of a giant black hole," reads the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Honolulu. [A]ny matter coming into contact with it would fall into it and never be able to escape. Eventually, all of earth would fall into such growing micro-black-hole, converting earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon, satellites, the ISS, etc."
March 28, 200817 yr It's not gonna end the world. lolz. The fear of this thing comes from lack of education on the matter.
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