Physicists ignore black hole theory

ITN - Tuesday, September 9 06:12 pmLeading physicists are set to go ahead with a Big Bang experiment despite warnings it could destroy the universe.

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Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) plan to smash particle beams together at close to the speed of light to create mini-versions of the explosion believed to have triggered the birth of the cosmos.

Cosmologists think an explosion of an object the size of a small coin occurred about 13.7 billion years ago and led to the formation of all matter.

A key aim of the experiment is to find the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle" that some theorists believe give matter its mass.

But the experiment, which will take place inside a 17-mile tunnel deep underneath the Swiss-French border called a Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could shed light on other mysteries like the existence of supersymmetry, dark matter and dark energy.

News of the controlled explosion has led to warnings of potential disaster.

Some critics say the experiment will create "black holes" of intense gravity that could implode the Earth, or that it will open the way for beings from another universe to invade through a "worm hole" in space-time.

A safety review by scientists at CERN and in the US and Russia rejected the prospect of such outcomes.

Robert Aymar, the French physicist who heads the research centre, said: "The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction."

Professor Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, said: "Collisions at these and greater energies occur millions of times a day in the Earth’s atmosphere, and nothing terrible happens."

The experiment is set to begin soon after 8am on Wednesday.

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It'll be okay, tomorrow's only step one.

i know! the hadron super collider

morningsong said:

Step one!

How many steps are there

XxAxX said:

You do?

..What's it like... is it friendly?

I was just reading about this a few minutes ago!

Steadwood said:

i've been following this baby since its inception.... been in the works for many years now. it should be quite cool to see what they discover, but i've seen enough sci fi movies to know soemthing always goes wrong. a rift in the space-time continuum.... wormholes into the living room, that sort of thing.

It'll be OK because if any such thing were to happen these guys would save us...

XxAxX said:

Should we party like it's 1999 tonight?

RenHoek said:

The Red x Cavalry

Steadwood said:

you know, it's where missing car keys and socks and coats go.

littlemissG said:

we probably should

XxAxX said:

Oh geez.

XxAxX said:

Oh them

I've got plenty of them... now I know what to blame it on

morningsong said:

laugh while you can but watchout! 8:00 a.m. tomorrow baby!

littlemissG said:

You mean time travel?

Steadwood said:

the thing to do ius to leave a wormhole of your own lying around so that it gets sucked into the other wormhole, instead of your car keys. THAT way they cancel each other out and you still have your keys

hope this helps.

explode stuff good

maybe the world will end so i can be with prince

i read they have already done this and things didnt go quite as planned.

And what they are saying they fear could happen, has happened.

Its like they are telling us what has already happened by acting like they haven't done the damage yet.

XxAxX said:

I think I just entered a wormhole trying to work that out

Steadwood said:

a bazillon probably, but tomorrow's just flippin the switch and putting the first ingredient. They're excite, though.

morningsong said:

Flour or Marg?

What does "doing hair" have to do with black holes.....

All I ask is that they solve the mystery of where all my left socks went... is that too much to ask?

Steadwood said:

well, today is the Big Day. what if a wormhole really WAS created overnight, and it inverted the known universe so that we don't know it but we are now living in a parallel dimension??

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

That's not a black hole, it's just Sharonda's weave in the trashcan