LHC - The final countdown?


	LHC - The final countdown?

dewitte

9-7-2008 1:57 PM

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lhc, geneva, black hole

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a5fe2bc6-f17d-421b-aca8-e7422ec4db83/D6F40353-E05C-4B18-9EF0-C2C359123532/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/741DB7C2-7839-4AA2-9C2D-0E8497F8848E" alt="Visitors stand in front of the ATLAS detector during the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Open Day at the European Particle Physics laboratory (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1"><P>Mankind is either at the beginning of a great era of <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/06/1">discovery</A>, or it's the end of the <A href="http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1053091/Meet-Evans-Atom-end-world-Wednesday.html">world</A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1"><P>On Wednesday, after 20 years of work by 10,000 scientists and engineers, researchers start the hunt for the God particle,  or the Higgs boson, which could help <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/07/particlephysics.darkmatter">explain the origin of mass in the universe</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1"><P>Enough energy will be produced to recreate the conditions that existed one trillionth of a second after the big bang. Built at a cost of £5bn, the world's largest test tube should help solve other problems that have been taxing scientists for years such as "dark matter".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1"><P>Sceptics have filed a law suit in courts in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the project fearing that the experiment may create quasars – a mass of energy fuelled by black holes.  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/sep/07/1"><P>One such sceptic, retired professor <A related="" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TjYobXKebM&feature=">Otto Rössler</A>, claims that these quasars could eat the world from within. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D6F40353-E05C-4B18-9EF0-C2C359123532/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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