One loose end (for me) is the absence of information about computational power. Are they really going to collect data from billions of collisions per second, and from what looks like many thousands (millions?) of detection components? If so, I’d love to see a diagram of the data flow…

A Rail Line? A Bridge Girder? The Bridge?

Ivan.

“CERN asserts that there is no risk to the planet, even though the Large Hadron Collider will create conditions not seen in nature since the first fraction of a second after the big bang.”
(# JTanekrson (LHCConcerns.com) 04 May 2008 at 8:37 pm)

Though there is a rebuttal from CERN, I think they should have been honest and claimed that, if successful, it would be not so much a “Mini Big Bang” as really a “Big Wimper”. I don’t like our chances if it is even a Significant Bang!

Harking back in History, was there any documentation before the first test of the Atom Bomb, of a real appreciation that they could have annihilated the Earth. Or was that all “Top Secret”?

Ivan.

1/. ATLAS – Episode 1 -A New Hope
2/. ATLAS – Episode 2 -The Particles Strike Back (Part 1)
3/. ATLAS – Episode 2 – The Particles Strike Back (Part 2)

Apart from the music, I am amazed that notoriously protective Lucasarts gave permission to use the Star Wars Theme, both visually and musically. Good “Ol George must be an LHC fan…

And I believe that this evidence is becoming clear…

CERN predicts the creation of up to 1 micro black hole per second in the Large Hadron Collider and references the 1999 RHIC safety study as proof of safety.
(Rebuttal: But the 1999 RHIC safety study only ruled out any possibility of colliders creating micro black holes based on knowledge at that time.)

CERN’ predicts that micro black holes will evaporate.
(Rebuttal: But Hawking Radiation has been disputed by no less than 3 peer reviewed studies that found no basis in science for such conclusions.)

CERN’ and Steven Hawking state that much greater energy cosmic ray impacts with Earth prove safety.
(Rebuttal: But higher energy cosmic ray impacts with stationary particles have net collision speeds less than the speed of light and send all particles created safely into space, while head-on collider collisions have net collision impact speeds at almost twice the speed of light and are designed to focus all the energy to a single point in space and particles created may be captured by Earth’s gravity.)

CERN promised to create and release an new safety report before the end of 2007.
(Rebuttal: CERN’s LHC Safety Assessment Group has concluded that particles created by cosmic ray impacts with Earth’s atmosphere are safely ejected into space and LSAG stated that they do not assume that micro black holes will evaporate, but CERN never released any safety reports created by their LHC Safety Assessment Group.)

CERN asserts that there is no risk to the planet, even though the Large Hadron Collider will create conditions not seen in nature since the first fraction of a second after the big bang.
(Rebuttal: But the legal action contends a 75% probability of risk with very high degree of uncertainty calculated by a scientist with a masters degree in statistics, and alleges that Chief Scientific Officer Mr. Engelen passed an internal memorandum to workers at CERN asking them regardless of personal opinion to affirm in all interviews that there were no risks involved in the experiments, changing CERN’s previous assertion of minimal risk.)

Professor Otto Rossler calculates that a single micro black hole could accrete the Earth is as few as 50 months and Dr. Rossler is world recognized as one of the most prestigious, most eminent, award winning scientists alive. Others including Dr. Raj Baldev, director of the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, are also warning of a very real, very possible, very present danger to the planet from the Large Hadron Collider.
(Rebuttal?: But CERN has not scientifically refuted his calculations that I am aware of, CERN only promised Dr. Rossler that if they create stable micro black holes that they will stop the experiment immediately. But could that be too late?)

The World might prevent a catastrophy if we delay the experiment until the promised safety studies are completed and peer reviewed.
(Rebuttal?: But then some scientists may not be the first to discover new science and some Nobel prizes may be lost?)

JTankers
LHCConcerns.com

Now I’m just waiting for ‘funny LHC pranks’.

Just FYI

They switched on the machine and the entire Krell civilization disappeared in a single night!

- Jack

Cool video though. Either that thing is infested with leprechauns, or it’s a bit on the large side…

As an audio production cat, the mish-mash of music perplexed me. I’d have scored it a lot differently. But then, they didn’t ask me.

Can anyone recommend a book (for an educated layman) about the goings on at CERN and the Large Hadron Collider?

LOL! My grandma was barely 5 feet tall and 90 lbs. in combat boots, and she spent quite a few years working as an aircraft mechanic on an air force base. When she drove one of the trucks on the base, she had to put 3″ blocks on the pedals. The guys had a lot of respect for her because she was absolutely fearless about stuff like hanging upside down by her knees to get at some parts of the aircraft.

I sometimes wonder if they had to hire a civilian because the military height and weight standards for recruits automatically eliminated anyone small enough to get into those nooks and crannies.