There's been a lot of talk recently about CERN's Large Hadron Collider and whether or not it's going to end the world. My company provided a lot of hardware and software that they are using to control it, so from a PR standpoint, I'm really hoping the world doesn't end, 'cause we'll look really bad.
Here's what my engineering mind thinks about it:
Juice box anyone?
9.03.2008
Will CERN Make a Black Hole?
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i am sipping my juice box as we speak.
I enjoyed your milk squeezingly entertaining rant.
The standard model is clearly incomplete, and at least a few "accepted" theories are clearly flawed: Hawking Radiation... the memo was a few decades late but fairly clearly wrong[7][8][9], uncertainty and quantum entanglement... I don't know for certain, but Einstein determinism wins Occam's Razor test on this one by a wide margine[6], Big Bang inflation... Again, don't know but Occam's razor suggests something a bit less outrageous[10])
Are you aware of the history of the safety controversy?
Former Nuclear Safety Officer Walter L. Wagner discovered flaws with CERN's safety arguments. He believes that the Large Hadron Collider could create dangerous particles that might destroy Earth, so he filed a law suit to require proof of safety. [1]
In response, CERN scientists created a safety report in 2008 that argues no real chance of danger. [2]
After review, German Astrophysicist Dr. Rainer Plaga argues that CERN's new report does not prove safety. Dr. Plaga proposes that CERN follow additional safety procedures to help reduce the danger, including proceeding slowly. [3]
On August 14th, CERN's Dr. Jonathan Ellis stated that there is no real danger and they will not proceed slowly, collisions will begin in a few weeks. [4]
Another German scientist famous for contributions to Chaos theory and visiting professor of physics Dr. Otto E. Rössler theorizes that if micro black holes are created in the Large Hadron Collider, they could grow large enough to destroy Earth in just years or decades.[5]
Dr. Rössler requests that an emergency safety conference be held before collisions begin. He is due to meet Swiss President Pascal Couchepin to discuss safety concerns.
[1] http://www.lhcdefense.org/lhc_legal.php US Federal Lawsuit Filings - Walter L. Wagner
[2] http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/Safety-en.html The safety of the LHC, Web Site - CERN
[3] http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0808/0808.1415v1.pdf On the potential catastrophic risk from metastable quantum-black holes produced at particle colliders - Rainer Plaga Rebuttal
[4] http://www.lhcfacts.org/?p=72 CERN?s Dr. Ellis tells only half of the story - JTankers
[5] http://www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/spiritualottoeroessler.pdf A Rational and Moral and Spiritual Dilemma - Otto E. Rössler Safety Counter Arguments
[6] http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19726485.700 Quantum randomness may not be random, New Scientist Magazine, 22 March 2008
[7] http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304042v1 Do black holes radiate? Do black holes radiate? - Adam D. Helfer Paper.
[8] http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607137 On the existence of black hole evaporation yet again On the existence of black hole evaporation yet again - VA Belinski Paper.
[9] http://www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/OTTOROESSLERMINIBLACKHOLE.pdf Abraham-Solution to Schwarzschild Metric Implies That CERN Miniblack Holes Pose a Planetary Risk - Otto E. Rōssler Theory a
[10] http://www.bigcrash.org Open Source Speculative Physics Project: The Pre-Big Bang Universe Model
I have no clue what that last guy was talking about.
A really funny video. Velcro shoes.
Todd your videos are even funnier near the equator. Singaporeans love your stuff.
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