---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Last October, over 400 top physicists signed a petition warning that the Higgs potential might become unstable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV) and asking governments to keep experiments under these levels. Can you find a link to back this statement up Buck? The only mention it pops up in is the article from popey that Carde posted. All I can find is Stephen Hawking saying that the Higgs could become unstable and destroy the universe. He wasn't talking about particle accelerator experiments though, but was speculating about the nature of reality itself. We aren't going to destroy the universe by looking at it. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Safety of high-energy particle collision experiments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_high-energy_particle_collision_experiments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_high-energy_particle_collision_experiments Safety of high-energy particle collision experiments - W... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_high-energy_particle_collision_experiments The safety of high energy particle collisions was a topic of widespread discussion and topical interest during the time when the Relativistic Heavy I... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_high-energy_particle_collision_experiments Preview by Yahoo Yes, just say “no” to energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV) for now, without adequate safeguard for our world in place. Yes, Scientists should not be allowed to fool out in the World with Mother Nature without adequate spiritual oversight. -Buck, an ever evolving old and practicing conservative transcendentalist meditator in the spiritual community of meditating Fairfield, Iowa. "There is more to the world than what we see or think.." jr_esq writes: My first reaction is that the Pope appears to be an ignoramus when it comes to scientific research. But it doesn't hurt to be concerned about significant experiments that may have negative consequences. The reference to "opening the gates of hell" may have been used as hyperbole to catch media attention. salyavin808 writes: It might surprise some people but anyone who wants to do a major physics experiment like the LHC, first has to apply for permission to the countries involved and provide a breakdown of costs, expectations and dangers. The worst case scenario with the LHC is that it might catch fire and damage any buildings nearby. This is why it's underground and it has a major fire safety system that floods the entire thing with foam if anything goes wrong. As for black holes destroying the Earth, the LHC doesn't create any more energy than cosmic rays do when they strike the upper atmosphere, it's just rather difficult to study those due to not knowing where they are going to happen next so they do it in laboratory conditions underground instead. The bottom line is, they wouldn't be allowed to do something that might destroy the Earth. But maybe the pope is right and there is some level beyond which god doesn't want us to know. cardemaister writes---In [email protected], hepa7@... : Pope Francis Warns Large Hadron Collider Could 'Open Gates of Hell' http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/pope-francis-warns-large-hadron-collider-could-open-gates-of-hell/ http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/pope-francis-warns-large-hadron-collider-could-open-gates-of-hell/ Pope Francis Warns Large Hadron Collider Could 'Open... http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/pope-francis-warns-large-hadron-collider-could-open-gates-of-hell/ Pope Francis pleaded the scientific community to halt operations on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this morning in an official Vatican release as scientists at t... View on worldnewsdailyreport... http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/pope-francis-warns-large-hadron-collider-could-open-gates-of-hell/ Preview by Yahoo
