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TwitterParticle AcceleratorsPhysicists have long theorized that particle accelerators could destroy the earth. When electric fields are used to accelerate protons they could collide at speed fast enough to create black holes or bits of altered matter. These small black holes would slowly engulf our planet.
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End of the World 10 Disasters that could end it all at any given second
May 10th, 2009 
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No Comments »The Race for Bosons
February 23rd, 2009 admin Fermilab’s Tevatron: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab From Pop Science:Competitor takes advantage of LHC’s accident.Particle accelerator smackdown! Scientists working on Fermilab’s Tevatron have been talking some smack (in the politest of terms), saying they have a good shot at finding the elusive Higgs boson before the currently out-of-commission Large Hadron Collider does.Also in today’s links: a map of emissions, why not to keep chimps as pets (besides the now-obvious), and more.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Accelerator, Bosons, Chimps, Chimps As Pets, Competitor, Emissions, Fermilab, Hahn, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, Particle Accelerator, Politest, Pop Science, Scientists, Tevatron No Comments »Race For ‘God Particle’ Heats Up
February 17th, 2009 admin Lyn Evans says the magnet incident was a real setback for CernFrom The BBC:Europe’s particle physics lab, Cern, is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, or “God particle”, its US rival claims.The particle, whose existence has been predicted by theoreticians, would help to explain why matter has mass.Finding the Higgs is a major goal of Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).But the US Fermilab says the odds of its Tevatron accelerator detecting the famed particle first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best.Both machines hope to see evidence of the Higgs by colliding sub-atomic matter at very high speeds. If it exists, the Higgs should emerge from the debris.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Accelerator, Atomic Matter, Bbc, Cern, Debris, Existence, Fermilab, God Particle, Hadron Collider, Higgs Boson, High Speeds, Large Hadron, Lhc, Losing Ground, Lyn, Magnet, Odds, Particle Physics Lab, Setback, Tevatron Accelerator No Comments »Top 10 Scientific Discoveries For 2008
December 24th, 2008 admin From Time Magazine:1. Large Hadron ColliderJean-Pierre Clatot / AFP / GettyGood news! The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the massive particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border — didn’t destroy the world! The bad news: The contraption didn’t really work either. In September, the 17-mile collider was switched on for the first time, putting to rest the febrile webchatter that the machine would create an artificial black hole capable of swallowing the planet or at least a sizeable piece of Europe — a bad day no matter what.
