Do you feel that LHC[large hadron collider] is just a gambling?
@codeofuniverse (558)
India
January 12, 2010 11:03am CST
The large hadron collider[lhc] is housed in atunnel 17 miles in circumference ,more than 500 feet underground ,at the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.It was bulit by CERN,the European organization for nuclear research, to collide oposing beams of protons at near light speed.Lhc was shut down days after its september 2008 launch by a serious fault between two suparconducting bending magnets.Now CERN claims that it has repaired the original defects and resulting the damages ,so that it can safely fire up the LHC again .But this is the largest science experiment in our planet's history and its laboratory is the planet itself.The stakes could not be higher.No Canary in the Quanta illuminates crucial question that must be asked by the people of the world about what coulb be if anything goes wrong ,a true Doomsday machine..i am not writing these words but these words are taken from the book" No Cnary in the Quanta:Who Gets to Decide if the large hadron collider is worth gambling our planet? and auther is Harry V Lehman..
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@bird123 (10643)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Don't worry about this one. Things will be OK! The really dangerous science isn't being worked on yet. Probably won't be in our lifetime. Of course, physics is physics. one could always stubble on the knowledge. It stares us all in the face. Man isn't ready yet.
@Impact009 (11)
• United States
14 Jan 10
Not more science fiction nonsense... Particle accelerators have been around for nearly eight decades. The LHC is located somewhere under the Franco-Swiss border somewhere near Geneva. I mean, sure, it's the largest one ever built, but its purpose is to test the Standard Model and hopefully aid in the discovery of the Higgs boson or disprove the Standard Model altogether.
All of these fears stem from the imaginations of science fiction authors and old bureaucrats who know nothing about even the basics of science. I wonder what people are going to think of after its eventual upgrade to the super LHC.
