Earth 'not at risk' from collider

[Sweetpea]

Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.
The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.
Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.
But the report, issued the European Organization for Nuclear Research, says there is "no conceivable danger".
The organization - known better by its French acronym, Cern - will operate the collider underground in a 27km-long tunnel near Geneva.
This Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a powerful and complicated machine, which will smash together protons at super-fast speeds in a bid to unlock the secrets of the Universe. Six "detectors" - individual experiments - will count, trace and analyse the particles that emerge from the collisions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468966.stm


Now, say what they will, this worries me. Most of our 'science fiction' has been written by extremely bright people.

[poppy]

They said nuclear power was safe and could never go into melt down until it did.
The only reason for attempting this is to make weapons, surely we are already capable of killing enough people without this.
BAD

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by poppy

surely we are already capable of killing enough people without this.

new & cool ways of killings folks is called progress

[Churchill]

Originally Posted by terrywit

new & cool ways of killings folks is called progress

Being sucked into a vortex of anti-matter with the gravitational pull of about 100,000 planets.

I love it when they play hard-ball with physics.