ShareThisThose who believe the End Times are imminent will be pleased to know that physicists in Switzerland are planning to fire up the Large Hadron Collider this weekend, fortuitously one week after the doomsday movie "2012" opened.
In 2008, when the LHC was first supposed to go online, a lawsuit seeking to block it was filed in federal court in Hawaii. It alleged that the giant particle accelerator could create a tiny black hole whose massive gravitational pull would suck in everything around it until Earth itself became a medium-size black hole.
What the LHC does is accelerate beams of photons in opposite directions until they are flying around a 17-mile circular tunnel 11,000 times a second. The physicists then slam the beams into each other. The resulting collision is expected to produce a mini-aftermath of the big bang, the explosion that created the universe.
Scientists hope the fragments from the photons will answer a number of questions, among them one about the actual existence of something called the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson so far exists only in theory. Finding the Higgs boson is an essential step in advancing the theories of subatomic particles and fields. That done, the physicists can move on to even more abstruse issues like dark matter and anti-matter.
When the LHC was turned on for the first time, in September 2008, what the scientists found, nine days into the experiment, was not the Higgs boson but defective soldering in an electrical splice. Problems quickly multiplied from that short circuit, with the result being that 53 of 1,624 large superconducting magnets had to be replaced and 10,000 splices retested, and the whole complex subject to a thorough cleaning.
The LHC will be started up in phases beginning this weekend, and we should know very shortly whether it works or Earth has become a black hole. Assuming it works, the next likeliest date for the End Times may be Dec. 21, 2012, when the myth of the Mayan Long Calendar has it that Earth will end.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
photons vs. protons
Most articles about this experiment are using the term proton as the matter being collided. Protons are different matter than photons listed in your article. Will you check your source for clarification please?
The Large Hadron Collider is
The Large Hadron Collider is a quark factory that will deconfine millions of quarks, the strongest, most attractive particles of the Universe. They carry the Atom’s mass, caged inside their nuclei. 99% of LHC’s production will consist on superfluid Quark condensates, a new state of matter, defined by Einstein, in which Quarks fusion together, creating hyper-dense, attractive tornado-like vortices with properties similar to black holes. Astro-physicists fear that if enough quarks are pegged together in one of those condensates, they can trigger a mass-reaction that would attract all the other quarks of the Earth, transforming our planet into a dense pulsar or black hole. The European Nuclear Company that will manufacture them, called CERN, affirms they won’t pose any danger, because according to a theory proposed by Mr. Hawking, small Black holes will evaporate in a burst of energy, before they can attract the mass of this planet. Yet Mr. Hawking’s theory has never been proved and it contradicts Einstein’s Relativity. So to prove Mr. Hawking’s right, 2 experiments were devised last year: a satellite called Fermi was launched to detect radiating black holes in the cosmos, but it failed to find any. A second test was done, manufacturing superfluid condensates, similar to those CERN will make with quarks; but formed with lighter, inoffensive ‘electro-weak’ Atoms. Those ‘atomic holes’ rotate 1 million times slower, absorbing sound ‘phonons’ instead of light ‘photons’ - reason why they are called dumb holes, instead of black holes. So, this June in an experiment at Haifa, Atomic Condensates rotating at supersonic speed became Dumb holes and absorbed sounds. Problem is they didn’t evaporate, proving that Quark Condensates, made at CERN, will absorb light & matter without evaporation. Because in Nature all what is possible happens (Totalitarian principle), Quark Holes should happen at LHC, making prohibitive for Public Policy the risks for Earth of a quark factory in this planet. CERN affirms LHC carries no risk, but critics contest neither Haifa or Fermi showed evaporation and the Company’s safety report doesn’t study Quark Condensates, which were little known when the factory was designed.
We are talking f a serious issue of national security, industrial corruption and the first potential genocide of the human race, for the sake of an obsolete industry relic of the cold war. As science stands today, there is a big chance this can happen, making it the biggest potential genocide of history. That this is allowed by mankind is a ‘monstrosity’ that can only be explained in the present age in which human values are irrelevant to what Eric Fromm called technological values:
‘Technological civilization is programmed by the principle that something ought to be done because it is technologically possible. If it is possible to build nuclear weapons, they must be built, even If they might destroy us all. Once this principle is accepted, humanist Values (something has to be done because it is needed by man) are Dethroned and technological development becomes the foundation of ethics’.
Eric Fromm, father of political psychology
The LHC is an industrial con-cern with little use for the advancement of science. Today those of us who are at the edge of research in science consider this machine obsolete. We are studying, after Hubble proved the fractal structure of the Universe and Nottale explained it unifying quantum and relativity (in what concerns the fractal structure of spacetime) the fractal paradigm in a Universe of infinite hierarchical scales in which big-bangs don’t happen. Which means the background radiation can only be created in real time by micro-black holes as those CERN will create, which according to Einstein will produce by gravitational lensing this exact 2.7k radiation, when their mass is that of a moon. This means the Universe is full of dark matter black holes, which have eaten the commonest planetoid on the galaxy, a moon. And so the collisions at CERN will have a big chance to do so with the Earth. Cern affirms this is impossible, but it does so because it sticks to the probabilistic/quantum paradigm previous to the topological/Non-Euclidean/Fractal Einsteinian paradigm, in which black holes are fractals of quarks, the substance CERN will deconfine. Thus, black holes will be frozen stars as Einstein called them. In those models the Universe is a deterministic topology and reality is created with energy and mass, which is physical information, ‘form’ - hence there is not quantum entropy and information paradoxes, black holes do NOT evaporate but as Einstein explains, transform energy into quarks, mass/information that balances the Universe. In those models the probability of extinction is huge… CERN should be halted for a decade till the theoretical issues prove it is safe or prove the fractal paradigm and put the risk close to 100%
What cern and the press ha done is follow the usual systems of industrial corruption that allow all industrial crimes to happen a priori. Latter we realize that ‘experts’ are often corrupted, that ‘latin jargons’ are the High priests’ secret talk to hide that corruption, that ‘AAA-derivatives’ turn out to be toxic financial scams, ad black hole factories do make real black holes that do blow up planets but in this issue there won’t be turn back. It is easy to follow trend and voice out the Company’s ‘ad hominem’ campaigns against those of us who denounced the crime, to voice out false statements (cern portrays the quark factory as a cosmic ray factory, when we never found quarks in cosmic rays), marketing campaigns (the god’ s particle, the big-bang hype), to print paid-by articles. It is easy for clueless politicians to take the money of high-tech corporations and the Nuclear Industry behind this con-cern. So now that all is set mankind will live with a damocles sword for years to come. If you want to see a real documentary on the facts of this concern, visit http://www.lhcdefence.org. Many lives are at risk, real lives of real people, as never before. Today mankind has no defense because the judiciary, politicians and the press who should check and denounce the excesses of companies and governments are not doing their job of warning the population and so private, ethic individuals have to step forward in a far less effective way, as our faillure to make judges ‘judge’ in this issue has shown.