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| Scientists: Atom-smasher Won't Bring Armageddon |
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TechnologyScientists: Atom-smasher Won't
Bring ArmageddonScientists: Atom-smasher
Won't Bring ArmageddonThe Associated PressThe
most powerful atom-smasher ever built could
make some bizarre discoveries after it is
switched on in August. But some critics fear
the Large Hadron Collider could exceed
physicists' wildest conjectures. (June
28)[Notes:Dateline: MEYRIN, Switzerland]
It's being called the largest scientific
experiment in history ...And some say one
that **could** cause Armageddon.This
five-point-eight billion-dollar machine is
designed to break up atoms ...It's called the
Large Hadron Collider or L-H-C ... An
underground tunnel 17 miles wide ... Attached
to several particle detectors the size of
office buildings. Those detectors will look
for signs of invisible dark matter ... a
so-far undiscovered particle smaller than the
atom....one scientists believe gives matter
mass.But critics say this mammoth machine
**could** destroy the world.That's because
... By the end of the summer ... the Collider
is scheduled to generate energies seven times
higher than any other machine in history.
[Notes:SOUNDBITE Lyn Evans, LHC project
leader, CERN: "I think, obviously, we have no
concerns at all, there is a huge community of
scientists who know what they are talking
about and are sleeping quite soundly
concerning the LHC. But nevertheless, this
creates problems in the general public who
are seriously concerned, and we have to
answer to that."]Concerns that these
scientists don't know exactly **what** will
happen when they flip the switch.Critics say
that smashing atoms at ninety-nine-point-nine
percent the speed of light might cause the
fabric of the universe to fold up on itself
.. But scientists here are brushing off those
concerns.They say cosmic rays have been
bombarding the earth at much higher energies
since the solar system formed four-point-five
billion years ago. [Notes:SOUNDBITE John
Ellis, CERN Theoretical Physicist: "The LHC
is only going to reproduce what nature does
every second, it has been doing for billions
of years, and all of these astronomical
bodies including the earth and the sun, they
are still here. So there really is no
problem, but if people are concerned about
it, we will certainly discuss."] The European
Research center reviewed safety issues of the
Collider in 2003 ... And said there was no
way the device could trigger a catastrophic
event. The center is expected to publish an
updated review later this week. ___ ___,
The Associated Press.
Tags : doomsday collider scientists: atom-smasher won't bring armageddon |
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| Super Collider - The Atom Smasher |
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Super Collider, the 10 billion dollar atom
smasher becomes reality in Geneva,
Switzerland. The super collider is 300 feet
underground and 17 miles long. Super magnets
force atoms to travel the 17 mile loop,
11,000 times a second, to help answer
questions about the universe and planet
earth.
The Super Collider operates at near zero on
the Kelvin Scale, minus 459.67 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Tags : Super Collider Hardon CERN Atom Smasher Big Bang Black Hole Star Wars Geneva Universe |
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