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Monday, August 25, 2008

The Large Hadron Collider



It appears as if the Swiss are building their own little Death Star over there. I wonder when it will be . . . fully operational. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a multi-national endeavor designed to pick apart the birth of the universe, among many other experiments. Scientists and laypersons continue the debate of whether or not we will implode the Earth in the process.

These photos, along with many others, are from the CERN Photo Archive and were featured on The Big Picture.

5 comments:

  1. The LHC is CERN's Death Star... that is clever.

    On August 14th, CERN's Dr. Jonathan Ellis presented safety arguments to CERN scientists in order that they may use this information to defend CERN. The video presentation is 73 minutes long and the mood of the scientists is serious and somber. http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1120625/

    Dr. Ellis tells only half of the story unfortunately.

    All of Dr. Ellis's arguments are disputed, done best in papers by Professor Dr. Otto E. Rössler[2] and Dr. Rainer Plaga[3].

    By far the worst argument is for Hawking Radiation, clearly fundamentally flawed conjecture. Did you see Dr. Ellis's slide with the outlandish reference to reverse time travel? I did not see a reference to negative energy though. LOL (Laugh Out Loud, anti-matter falling into black holes adds energy to the black hole, no matter how clever the counter arguments are to try to correct Dr. Hawking's more than 30 year old blunder). See the following for references to a few compelling papers that argue Hawking Radiation is flawed conjecture, black holes are neutral* and do not radiate: [4][5][6]*).

    Dr. Michael E. Peskin argues that the micro black hole danger scenarios are plausible except that they are excluded by cosmic ray arguments[1], but he does not address compelling counter arguments by Dr. Plaga[2] and Dr. Rossler[3], summarized well by Dr. Plaga "Concluding, G & M have not demonstrated that white dwarfs stop cosmic-ray produced mBHs in general. Their exclusion of dangerous mBHs thus remains not definite."

    (For the record I do not find plausible the arguments that safety is sufficiently proven for micro black holes created at Large Hadron Collider energies, but the safety of micro black holes created by future higher energy colliders still requires confirmation. I was unable to reconcile this line of reasoning other than it may have been creative wording to disguise and minimize minority opposition concerns in the SPC report.)

    The most disturbing statement of all was the stunningly arrogant prediction that safety will be proven when the Large Hadron Collider begins high energy collisions in a few weeks.

    I suspect General Custer said something similar to re-assure his troops that he would defeat the American Indian's at the Little Big Horn. General Custer was arrogant and ignorant, but his mistake had relatively limited consequences.

    Dr. Ellis comments that Hawking Radiation is "just elementary quantum mechanics" and argues only that an extremely implausible CP violation result could allow failure. Learn about Bohmian (Einstein deterministic) Quantum theory[7] Dr. Ellis then decide which passes the Occam's Razor test by an order of magnitude and decide how sure you are about "elementary quantum mechanics" before you arrogantly potentially risk the future of humanity and belittle the genius of Dr. Rössler and others in your rush to prove yourself correct. Reverse Hawking Radiation is a theory you should familiarize your self with, it is predicted by at least one speculative theory that I find compelling[8].

    An open and independent safety conference as Dr. Rössler calls for is desperately needed before micro black hole creation energy thresholds might be exceeded. The response to petition Swiss President Pascal Couchepin not to meet with Dr. Rössler appears to follow the pattern that Dr. Rossler alleges in his blog[9] "I consider it very plausible that the [disinformation] policy of CERN’s has shielded the author from his field of research for the last 18 months"

    Heed the appeal for reasonable confirmation of safety arguments by an open and independent credible decision making process before collisions begin.

    Sincerely, JTankers Founder and co-administrator of LHCFacts.org

    * Dr. Otto E. Rössler's brilliant yet obvious re-interpretation[6] of General Relativity theory concludes that [the horizon of black holes is infinitely far in spacetime from the outside world and never quite finished]. Dr. Rossler calculates that Earth will be destroyed in 50 months to 50 years if micro black holes are created (micro black holes become charged by capturing charged particles outside the event horizon). Dr. Ellis arrogantly and ignorantly belittles "Mr. Rössler". Inappropriate, unbecoming and utterly misguided.

    [0] http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1120625/ The LHC is Safe - Dr. J Ellis

    [1] http://physics.aps.org/articles/v1/14 The end of the world at the Large Hadron Collider? - Michael E. Peskin Paper, 8/18/2008

    [2] http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0808/0808.1415v1.pdf On the potential catastrophic risk from metastable quantum-black holes produced at particle colliders - Rainer Plaga Rebuttal, 8/10/2008

    [3] http://www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/spiritualottoeroessler.pdf A Rational and Moral and Spiritual Dilemma - Otto E. Rōssler Safety Counter Arguments

    [4] http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304042v1 Do black holes radiate? Do black holes radiate? - Adam D. Helfer Paper.

    [5] http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607137 On the existence of black hole evaporation yet again On the existence of black hole evaporation yet again - VA Belinski Paper.

    [6] http://www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/OTTOROESSLERMINIBLACKHOLE.pdf Abraham-Solution to Schwarzschild Metric Implies That CERN Miniblack Holes Pose a Planetary Risk - Otto E. Rōssler Theory a

    [7] http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19726485.700 Quantum randomness may not be random, New Scientist Magazine, March 22, 2008

    [8] http://www.bigcrash.org "The Pre-Big Bang Universe Model", open source physics project

    [9] http://www.achtphasen.net/index.php/plasmaether/2008/08/21/on_the_splendid_article_by_michael_e_pes "On the Splendid Article by Michael E. Peskin" by Otto E. Rossler, August 21, 2008

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  2. whats with all the cut and pastes? i say blow up the earth! heck, maybe itll collapse the 11 dimensions, or turn us all into yogurt...who knows.

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  3. I don't know about yogurt, but we would all be much closer. "A really really really small world after all".

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  4. Come Wednesday we will either be one step closer to understanding the origins of our planet or one step closer to destroying the planet once and for all. Which will it be? Well, we will all just have to wait and see.

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  5. I'm rooting for the former...:)

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