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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
I was just wondering how others feel about the LHC or any other particle accelerator for that matter. I think it's quite dangerous what they're doing. It's playing with the basic elements of nature. For instance, they could produce anti matter by accident and thereby annihilate all the matter as we know it! I really think we should not experiment too much with elements on that scale. It's messing around with the balance that nature built and is still obtaining. I know I'm not a scientist and I don't know that much about what they're doing but it scares me a bit. Humans can be an intelligent species but we know far from everything and should be very careful with nature. We can read about it all we want but experiments on a level like that are very dangerous IMHO. rOZZ Music Pictures |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
How long has it been running already, and the world's still here ... ? |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Note that we see far greater extreme 'atom smashing' every day as cosmic rays hit our atmosphere. There's a few experiments that watch out for the resulting 'air showers' of particles. The LHC is still a long way off such everyday natural energy extremes. However, the LHC events are created in an exact position that can be carefully studied. A more realistic question is whether we might be burning out a small spot in spacetime in repeating the same experiment so many times each second at the exact same spot! Kinda like wearing out your carpet at a doorway... (Joke! :-) ) And then also there are the sprites and elves from lightning strikes that also far exceed the LHC for power... And we're still here... Keep search in' Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
my understanding is that antimatter reacts with equal amounts of matter. If that is true the actual damage is quite small. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
I agree with Julie. Cern, also stands for Nuclear Research. The instruments used at CERN are purpose-built particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before the beams are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions. If anything goes wrong they could blow up Meyrin, Switzerland. You never know. "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". Muphry's law. The universe wastes nothing, it's simply transferred. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
... I just hope that, even on such a small level, they know what they're doing... 'course they don't... That's why we're experimenting! Keep search in' Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
... If anything goes wrong they could blow up Meyrin, Switzerland. You never know. ... It already has and a section has blown up. Spectacular electromagnetic torque that tore apart substantial concrete mounts. We also lost most of the world's supply of helium in a few minutes... Then, that is merely just one of the hazards of the world's largest superconducting electromagnet... Spectacular world leading engineering and science and who knows what else! Keep search in' Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
... If anything goes wrong they could blow up Meyrin, Switzerland. You never know. ... Thank You, Martin! |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Now that would be science 'fiction' if you will. He is very much into fiction. ;) |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
There was an interesting documentary regarding the continuing work at Cern on one of the Discovery channels this week and they touched on the subject of potential disasters that could be triggered by the most energetic experiments. Safety is a big concern with the scientists and engineers at Cern and they do acknowledge the possibility of certain kinds of explosions mostly triggered by the loss of coolant that provides the conditions that allow the superconducting magnetic fields to contain the particle stream. That is what happened with the explosion that shut down the project a few years ago. Not much chance of annihilation of the planet or even the region but a failure could destroy the collider and kill several hard to replace scientists. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
They are checking all the electrical connections in the 27 km long cavity before restarting LHC in 2015 and bringing its energy to the maximum of 14 GeV from the 7 GeV it was running. Meanwhile we at Test4Theory@home are still running simulations at 7 GeV, with no danger to anyone. Tullio PS We just simulated one trillion events. Look at the T4T home page. We were congratulated by CERN. |
aka_Sam Send message Joined: 1 Aug 07 Posts: 471 Credit: 1,637,878 RAC: 0 |
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/57093/Existentialist_Cat_The_LHC__amp__Strangelets_Explained/ ;o) I'm no scientist but from what I understand of the thing, people off-site are many orders of magnitude more likely to be killed in a car accident than they are from some incident at CERN. Yet, I know of no one who sits up worrying at night about getting in a car crash. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/57093/Existentialist_Cat_The_LHC__amp__Strangelets_Explained/ ;o) I'm sure those people over there know what they're doing but one 'incident' there would have a much bigger effect than just an 'ordinary' car crash, that's for sure! rOZZ Music Pictures |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
My thesis adviser,a brilliant young scientist, died in a car crash in 1972. Even a serious accident in a tunnel underground like that of the LHC would have no dire consequences for people on the surface. There are no nuclear materials in the LHC. About 100 km from where I live there are ten or 20 nuclear warheads in an Italian air base but they are American. Any accident there could have much worse consequences. Tullio |
aka_Sam Send message Joined: 1 Aug 07 Posts: 471 Credit: 1,637,878 RAC: 0 |
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/57093/Existentialist_Cat_The_LHC__amp__Strangelets_Explained/ ;o) I am just trying to understand exactly what it is that you're afraid of. Earth is exposed to far more energetic particles every day than can ever be produced by CERN. The only danger is to the taxpayer's pocketbook. (Fundamental physics is an expensive obsession.) |
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