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If you were worried by the Large Hadron Collider, prepare yourself for a shock, Monster machine, black holes, strangelets, CERN LHC
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A lot has been said on GLP about the dangers of the LHC, people are concerned about possible doomsday scenarios and they are in good company. Before the commissioning of another, less powerful, particle accelerator, the RHIC, Britain's astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees highlighted the small risk of destroying the Earth by turning it into “an inert hyperdense sphere about one hundred metres across." made out of stranglet matter.
[link to www.ibtimes.com]
The possibility of producing stable black holes and other more exotic scenarios lead to the commissioning of a doomsday safety report before RHIC became operational.
RHIC can operate at energies of up to 200 GeV, this is the combined energies of protons or atomic nuclei smashing into each other. When CERN's LHC became operational nine years later the energy levels where raised to 7,000 GeV for protons and up to 500,000 Gev for lead nuclei. Next year the upgraded LHC will reopen with the ability to smash protons together at 14,000 GeV. At each stage people have voiced their concerns but for the most part have been ignored. What most people don't realise is that there is a monster machine, far from public view, in the foothills of the Andes mountains that makes the LHC look like a popgun....
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