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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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Comments OffRace 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 Comments OffBig Particle Collider To Restart In September
February 11th, 2009 admin CERN Large Hadron Collider: Photo from Curious CatFrom Yahoo News/AP:GENEVA – Additional safety features being added to the world’s largest atom smasher will postpone its startup until the end of September, a year after the $10 billion machine was sidelined by a simple electrical fault, the operator said Tuesday.The cost of the repairs and added safety features has yet to be determined, but it will be covered by the regular budget of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, spokeswoman Christine Sutton said.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Atom Smasher, Budget, Cern, Christine Sutton, Curious Cat, Electrical Fault, European Organization, Geneva, Hadron Collider, Large Hadron, Nuclear Research, Particle, Photo, Spokeswoman, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments OffScientists Not So Sure ‘Doomsday Machine’ Won’t Destroy World
January 29th, 2009 admin Photo: March 22, 2007: Magnet core of the largest superconducting solenoid magnet at European Organization for Nuclear Research’s Large Hadron Collider. APFrom FOX News:Still worried that the Large Hadron Collider will create a black hole that will destroy the Earth when it’s finally switched on this summer?Um, well, you may have a point.Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world’s largest particle collider, and determined that they won’t simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer — perhaps even more than a second, a relative eternity in particle colliders, where most objects decay much faster.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Black Hole, Doomsday Machine, Eternity, European Organization, Fox News, Hadron Collider, Large Hadron, Magnet Core, Microscopic Black Holes, Millisecond, Nuclear Research, Particle Collider, Physicists, Sergio Fabi, Solenoid, Solenoid Magnet, Superconducting Solenoid, University Of Alabama, University Of Bologna, World Photo Comments OffNibipedia – Wikipedia Meets YouTube
December 3rd, 2008 admin If you have ever searched Wikipedia and thought, “there should be a video about this,” you’re not alone. Troy Peterson and his colleagues had the same idea and acted on it by creating Nibipedia. Nibipedia is the result of matching Wikipedia entries to YouTube videos.
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