Doomsday fears spark lawsuit over collider
Critics worry about mini-black holes, strangelets; experts reject claims
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23844529/
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A hardhat worker is dwarfed by the inner workings of the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector, deep beneath the French-Swiss border.
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. It's expected to tackle some of the deepest questions in science: Is the foundation of modern physics right or wrong? What existed during the very first moment of the universe's existence?
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Another one of man's creations that may destroy the world. Does anyone remember the Doomsday Bombs of the 1960s?
Think of all the money this thing has burned through..., and then about all of the starving children in the world. Doesn't make sense, does it?
I'm sure there is no intentional desire to destroy the world, but, when even their own health and safety report mentions the possibilities of the project causing Black Holes, one has to to have some concerns...