Hadron Collider Ready for December 2012
Archie
laboratory in the Jura mountains near Geneva on the border of France
and Switzerland. The largest collider to date will allow scientists to
re-create conditions that existed a trillionth of a second after the
big bang. Scientists involved in the project intend to prove the
existence of the spooky "Higgs boson" entity (the God Particle) which
give matter, mass. The ambitious and somewhat controversial project
also aims solve the mystery of dark matter.
In 2008 the project was scrubbed due to a small piece of electrical
cable providing power to the huge magnets broke loose. Temperatures in
one of the tunnels increased dramatically and this was followed by the
release of helium cooled to -271 degrees. The unexpected events caused
over $60 million damage to the equipment. The collider itself has run
up a cost of over $9 billion. Within the next few weeks, bunches of
protons should be loaded into the device, and it's expected to be
operational near the end of December 2009.
Some scientists fear the experiment could cause black holes to form
which could grow exponentially very rapidly. If this unlikely event
were to happen, the planet would quickly disappear. Other scientists
like Dr. Holger Bech Neilson of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen
believe that the manufacture of Higgs bosons may be so "abhorrent" to
nature, that ripples have traversed backward through time to stop the
collider before it could alter the nature of time and space.
A top scientist working at the project has suggested that the
collision could create a rift to new, unknown dimensions upon
activation. “Out of this door might come something, or we might send
something to it,” Sergio Bertolucci told reporters. Other top
scientists back his view and suggest that the event could tap into
several dimensions theorized in string theory. One source stated, "We
live in a four dimensional universe, three of which a space dimensions
and one time dimension. It is quite possible that after the big bang
we have been locked within our familiar four dimensions. The effect of
the collider may reopen our universe to other dimensions and the
dimension of time may give way to a parallel universe effectively
ending the dimension of time for our own universe and starting time in
another."
A leak from the project suggests that the experiments scheduled date
for operation is actually December 21, 2012, the date that the Myan
calendar ends and the time that has been predicted by Nostradamus to
be the end of time. The reason for the secrecy around the actual date
of the experiment is because "there is far too much superstitious
speculation around that date" a source is reported to have said. "The
opposition to the experiment is bad enough as it is." The source also
stated that the timing of the experiment isn't anything but a
coincidence. "And a weird one at that."
Wolf K
> LONDON - An 18-mile circular tunnel is housed in the gigantic CERN
> laboratory in the Jura mountains near Geneva on the border of France
A nice example of how journalists look for the bizarre and weird - it
makes better story.
And the "top scientists" quoted are as ignorant as the hacks that report
their drivel. (Eg, "Other top scientists back his view and suggest that
the event could tap into several dimensions theorized in string theory.
One source stated, "We live in a four dimensional universe, three of
which a space dimensions and one time dimension." -- String theory
posits 11 dimensions at last count IIRC.)
Bah!
wolf k.
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Cor Blimey!