"[A] higher administrative court in Muenster, Germany, [has] rejected [a] German citizen's claims that the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] will destroy the planet. The woman's attempts have also been rejected by a court in Switzerland."
"A popular notion, that the collider would create mini black holes that would suck up the Earth, has been dismissed by experts as impossible. Another theory, that the LHC might produce a strangelet, a theoretical particle that would then convert everything it touched into more strangelets, has been likewise dismissed."
DonDiego had been concerned about the world-ending potential of the LHC, . . .but is happy to learn that "such [end-of-the-world] theories have lost steam in the wake of two years of uneventful research at the LHC."
Ref: LiveScience.com
The reader may now rest assured that if the LHC does produce black holes or strangelets that destroy the Earth and everything on it, the scientists and technicians in charge will have violated court rulings from Switzerland and Germany.
"A popular notion, that the collider would create mini black holes that would suck up the Earth, has been dismissed by experts as impossible. Another theory, that the LHC might produce a strangelet, a theoretical particle that would then convert everything it touched into more strangelets, has been likewise dismissed."
DonDiego had been concerned about the world-ending potential of the LHC, . . .but is happy to learn that "such [end-of-the-world] theories have lost steam in the wake of two years of uneventful research at the LHC."
Ref: LiveScience.com
The reader may now rest assured that if the LHC does produce black holes or strangelets that destroy the Earth and everything on it, the scientists and technicians in charge will have violated court rulings from Switzerland and Germany.
