-Caveat Lector-
I've been away for a bit and just returned. Don't know whether the following has
already
been discussed regarding the downing of John Jr.'s plane
http://www.trufax.org/hotmail/montauk.html
and then, on another list, someone posted this, saying--and I certainly can't verify
this--
that it was tested last Friday....
Big Bang machine could
destroy Earth
by Jonathan Leake
Science Editor
A NUCLEAR accelerator designed to replicate the Big Bang
is under investigation by international physicists because of
fears that it might cause "perturbations of the universe" that
could destroy the Earth. One theory even suggests that it
could create a black hole.
Brookhaven National Laboratories (BNL), one of the
American government's foremost research bodies, has spent
eight years building its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
on Long Island in New York state. A successful test-firing
was held on Friday and the first nuclear collisions will take
place in the autumn, building up to full power around the time
of the millennium.
Last week, however, John Marburger, Brookhaven's
director, set up a committee of physicists to investigate
whether the project could go disastrously wrong. It followed
warnings by other physicists that there was a tiny but real risk
that the machine, the most powerful of its kind in the world,
had the power to create "strangelets" - a new type of matter
made up of sub-atomic particles called "strange quarks".
The committee is to examine the possibility that, once formed,
strangelets might start an uncontrollable chain reaction that
could convert anything they touched into more strange matter.
The committee will also consider an alternative, although less
likely, possibility that the colliding particles could achieve such
a high density that they would form a mini black hole. In
space, black holes are believed to generate intense
gravitational fields that suck in all surrounding matter. The
creation of one on Earth could be disastrous.
Professor Bob Jaffe, director of the Centre for Theoretical
Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is
on the committee, said he believed the risk was tiny but could
not be ruled out. "There have been fears that strange matter
could alter the structure of anything nearby. The risk is
exceedingly small but the probability of something unusual
happening is not zero."
Construction of the £350m RHIC machine started eight years
ago and is almost complete. On Friday scientists sent the first
beam of particles around the machine - but without
attempting any collisions.
Inside the collider, atoms of gold will be stripped of their
outer electrons and pumped into one of two 2.4-mile circular
tubes where powerful magnets will accelerate them to 99.9%
of the speed of light.
The ions in the two tubes will travel in opposite directions to
increase the power of the collisions. When they smash into
each other, at one of several intersections between the tubes,
they will generate minuscule fireballs of superdense matter
with temperatures of about a trillion degrees - 10,000 times
hotter than the sun. Such conditions are thought not to have
existed - except possibly in the heart of some dense stars -
since the Big Bang that formed the universe between 12
billion and 15 billion years ago.
Under such conditions atomic nuclei "evaporate" into a
plasma of even smaller particles called quarks and gluons.
Theoretical and experimental evidence predicts that such a
plasma would then emit a shower of other, different particles
as it cooled down.
Among the particles predicted to appear during this cooling
are strange quarks. These have been detected in other
accelerators but always attached to other particles. RHIC,
the most powerful such machine yet built, has the ability to
create solitary strange quarks for the first time since the
universe began.
BNL confirmed that there had been discussion over the
possibility of "perturbations in the universe". Thomas Ludlam,
associate project director of RHIC, said that the committee
would hold its first meeting shortly.
John Nelson, professor of nuclear physics at Birmingham
University who is leading the British scientific team at RHIC,
said the chances of an accident were infinitesimally small - but
Brookhaven had a duty to assess them. "The big question is
whether the planet will disappear in the twinkling of an eye. It
is astonishingly unlikely that there is any risk - but I could not
prove it," he said.
sno0wl
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