![]() We all now know better.Ģ) Many "scientists" said nuclear winter was baloney. To answer your first question, I'll give a small list, even though I think my point should be self-evident:ġ) Many "scientists" said global warming was baloney. Yes, I think that article is excellent and I think that is the type of point-by-point analysis that should be employed to determine beyond all doubt that there are no safety concerns. Secondly, if you read through this thread you may have noticed that Zapperd referenced an article by Peskin discussing the risk posed by the LHC and future particle colliders it's well worth a read because I think it answers most of your questions. What if tomorrow it's 1 in 1,000,000? 10 Years from now - 1 in 100,000? How risky is too risky? And who decides? These are not frivolous questions.įirst off I'd like to know what mistakes has science made that caused disasterous consequences? Either way science, unlike history, doesn't repeat itself. I just like to have all the facts possible.Īnd, I do fear that one day we'll have the capability to make something destructive. I'm not trying to be alarmist, but I don't think it's ever unfair to question whether we know what we're doing when we start playing with big bangs.Īnyway, I posted a very long report in non-physics forum about why LHC couldn't produce black holes, mainly relying on the argument that the Schwartzchild radius would be smaller than the Planck Length, or, if the radius didn't matter, the fact that Hawking Radiation would deplete the BH before it acquired any mass. But I think you can appreciate my basic point. I shout "utter nonsense" at myself several times a day. This is your interpretation of what I mean when I say "utter non-sense". You are capable to understand, if you are not afraid of cosmic rays, then dont be afraid of LHC. Like I said, a little bit of humility is definitely in order for this community, especially when playing god. And, you all should remember the cataclysmic mistakes science has made in the past, and the countless lives that have been lost due to people's concerns being dismissed as "baloney." You can understand why someone would ask you to back up your words with answers. Instead, I find comments like that, from you and others, rather condescending, as though the rest of us are not capable of understanding therefore we should not even ask the question. Forgive me if I don't accept subjective characterizations like "baloney" and "utter non-sense" as gospel just because they come out of the mouths of PhDs. I have, ratherly, merely asked people in the know to explain why no cataclysmic event is possible. Whether we find anything or not, we will still build a larger one-VLHC-very large hadrom collider( but maybe in 50 years)Īlso I don't believe I ever said I was concerned about collisions or actually thought something bad would happen. Just read through this thread and it will really help ha haaa I must look up all the medical stuff and other thousands of things that have been of benefit to us! my immediate response was actually Velcro as well. I can't wait to find out what happens! :-) One of my colleagues said to me today what a waste. Do we need to go bigger/faster? Will it prove/show anything we don't already know or understand. If the particles (sorry can't remember the name) are not seen on this experiment. If the streams are being smashed into each other could this then create a universe? I ask this as I'm thinking the collisions the cern guys are doing under controlled conditions to look for new particles etc must already happen out there in space or here on earth/both.but are the speeds important ? Do individual natural collisions happen at lower speeds an therefore not set off a "birth" ![]() As I have been thinking about this, which is weird for me (I train people in management and customer service etc) no science back ground. I'm just writing as I have a query about the LHC.
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