Most are familiar with the large hadron collider built by CERN (French acronym for European Organization for Nuclear Research). If you are one who is not very familiar with it I suggest that you might want to read my article # 314746 "Super Collider Extraordinary, Doomsday Machine?" before you read this one. It will give you the history of colliders and the reason for a lawsuit which was filed against them.
But after encountering several small problems in the construction of the huge one in France, near the border with Switzerland, they finally became able to fire it up on September 10, 2008 and continued to send experimental beams around the tunnel but with restrained speeds. Then on September 19, they experienced problems with two giant super conducting bending magnets. Severe damage was done and it has been shut down for repairing, expected to be completed by June this year. This damage repair is said to have been costly at $21 million. Their present prognosis is that the repairs will be completed by June of this year. For those interested in the details of the incident and the damage done may read their press release at:
Problems still exist as to the safety of this experimental machine. After having satisfied a lawsuit against them in early 2008, they have gone ahead this far but with others beginning to take issue with their experiments. And even if they are correct in saying the possibility of strangelets and black holes being produced from their experiments which will do massive to catastrophic damage, there are questions. My own primary question is, if this 6.4 billion dollar machine is so fragile that it cannot complete the testing of sending beams around the tunnel at less than maximum speeds, how on earth do they expect it to withstand sending them in both directions at the speed of light and collide? Even if nothing so bizarre as black holes or strangelets occur, it will probably self destruct if not worse. Of course, my question is of no value.
However, there are now three notable physicists, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama who have questioned the accuracy of those who say that microscopic black holes would evaporate in a millisecond. Rather, read this statement:
"We conclude that ... the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible. Nonetheless, it remains true that the expected decay times are much longer (and possibly >> 1 second) than is typically predicted by other models," the three state in a brief paper posted at the scientific discussion Web site ArXiv.org.
To risk such possible catastrophic results, I strongly dislike terms as "does not seem possible", "Nonetheless...". One would expect more definite assurances when the existence of the entire world is being considered. Who has the authority to make such decisions? Isn't this the same people who think that the entire universe is a result of an explosion of NOTHING? Good grief!
If you have much curiosity about this gigantic structure and it's working I strongly recommend that you visit this website where you will find numerous large, high quality and beautiful photographs of it. Now, the entire page is slow loading because of so much photography, so don't get discouraged. Just examine each photo as the next one loads.
Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born September 20, 1930 near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace in 1997, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He formerly produced a bi-weekly ezine. Archives are accessible at: http://piedmontcoc.com/hofarchives.htmlHe is also the author of Final Stronghold, published in 2003, available from Amazon.
Wow Joel, interesting article, I will go to the web site to read about this, this is incredible. I wonder if the people who are making decisions on this, are the same people that are saying "There is no such thing as global warming"? The statement you made, and I quote "Isn't this the same people who think that the entire universe is a result of an explosion of NOTHING? Good grief"! If it is the same people, we need to get involved in this. This is downright scary to say the least......Great informative article, man o man, you learn something new everyday.......Your friend in pen, Gary
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