The End Of The World As We Know It?
tracy — Mon, 09/11/2006 - 14:49
Lifeboat Foundation ParticleAcceleratorShield: Particle Accelerator Shield Some people are worrying about the world's next-generation particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to open for business next year at CERN's facility on the Franco-Swiss border. For instance, Ran Livneh who works on improving the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer's software and performance said:
"The LHC will soon be activated, creating physical environment very similar to that which prevailed soon after the Big Bang. This physical realm is unknown, and dangerous phenomena might arise. From the LHC site:
'According to some theoretical models, tiny black holes could be produced in collisions at the LHC. They would then very quickly decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates) which would be detected by experiments.'
"This is but one example
