Testing with Due Diligence There is little doubt if the LHC does all that it is supposed to do and strange particles including the Higgs boson are discovered it will be a giant step forward in our understanding of the cosmos. For all that we do know about the universe there is so very much more we do not understand. The test/detector results from the this SUPER-collider will be great and will be extraordinarily exciting. CERN has looked at all of the consequences and most scientists do not expect a catastrophe. But, some do.
Some have suggested that cosmic rays bombard the earth and us constantly and we're still here. Protons traveling around in the LHC 11,000 loops in a second - will be over 99% the speed of light. Nothing gets much faster. When protons smash into each other at that speed - close to the speed limit of matter - what will be the outcome? The consequences of these collisions may be mini black holes. Tiny black holes grow into very large black holes. There is an accretion disk around a black hole just before the event horizon where visible matter is being sucked into the black hole pulled toward the holes center, its singularity. If the Big Bang is a correct theory the universe which some say is infinite began as very tiny (too small to see) microscopic no-width and no-height dense energy and has been expanding ever since. There is a black hole in the middle of every galaxy and some of them are millions of times more massive than our SUN and they continue to grow in size - called (gravitational) accretion. No one has ever seen nor detected one on Earth before but that may change then they crank up the LHC. "One potential method of destruction OF THE PLANET is that the LHC will create tiny black holes that could swallow everything in their path including the planet. In 2002, (physicist) Roberto Casadio at the Universita di Bologna in Italy and a few pals reassured the world that this was not possible because the black holes would decay before they got the chance to do any damage." (lhc-black-holes at physics arXiv blog) The traditional wisdom, an impossible concept in science by the way, HAS BEEN that any black holes created by these proton collisions would decay before they swallow the Earth. Well, now - after thinking about it for several years there are more and more physicists who are having second thoughts about mini-black hole decay. They are saying now, what if the decay does not keep pace with the mBH's (mini-black holes) growth? The point is, they really don't know. Casadio has also changed his mind. He no longer reassure us that black holes will decay faster than they grow. I think we're in deep do do now. "...there is no such thing as "rest" within the center of the Earth: the temperature is 7000 K; the density is 13,000 kg per cubic meter. And, after all, temperature is just an epiphenomenon of moving particles......." (Read this at arXiv.org: "Hole Growth in the Warped Brane-World Scenario at the LHC") "....the effective velocity that an mBH feels while at "rest" within the Earth's core is equivalent to an mBH traveling at just less than the escape velocity of the Earth...." (IBID-arXiv.org) Therefore ACCRETION ALWAYS OUTPACES HAWKING RADIATION (evaporation of the black hole) and thus there is a NET (kilogram scale) growth of the black hole - out-pacing its decay. What would Albert Einstein say? He didn't work on the Atom bomb because he was opposed to war and he was opposed to potential catastrophic devastation from a nuclear fission. He warned of the possibility of a flash-fire of the Earth's atmosphere and a nuclear chain reaction. Here we go again: Nobody knows what will happen when the LHC is turned on and they start smashing particles of protons. One thing is for sure: Testing under these conditions may be fine. But it may not be. Is this due diligence? Let the Good Times Roll! Hank Roth Also see these links: (1) http://www.lhcountdown.com/ (2) http://inyourface.info/ArT/Sci/EnD.shtml (3) http://inyourface.info/ArT/Sci/Doomsday.shtml (4) http://inyourface.info/crypt/ (5) http://thebiglife.wordpress.com/ (6) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ (7) http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2948
