Legal bid to stop CERN atom smasher from 'destroying the world'

Legal bid to stop CERN atom smasher from 'destroying the world'

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Critics of the Large Hadron Collider - a £4.4 billion machine due to be switched on in ten days time - have lodged a lawsuit at the European Court for Human Rights against the 20 countries, including the UK, that fund the project.

The device is designed to replicate conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and its creators hope it will unlock the secrets of how the universe began.

However, opponents fear the machine, which will smash pieces of atoms together at high speed and generate temperatures of more than a trillion degrees centigrade, may create a mini-black hole that could tear the earth apart.

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What's inside this Pandora's Box?
Black Saturn?
Nothing but hype?
???
*Going to go check what I have on my To-Do list for September 10th*

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[edit on 31-8-2008 by silo13]

This world is in so much trouble anyways, I'm begging them to turn on the LHC soon so we can get this over with (if anything even happens). There's a lot of speculation going both ways. We won't know the truth until September 10th. Maybe if we do create a rift in time, I can go back and stop myself from getting in to so much trouble with the law.

There is at least one more thread about this posted today.

It even has the same title, the only difference is the capital letters on same words.

You should look before you create a new thread.

As ArMap has pointed out, there is a pre-existing thread on this topic.

Please contribute all further comments and questions to this thread.

Thank you.

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