Space Forum / Astronomy / July 2008

Maybe Art Deco will get his strangelet transformed world yet!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/30/hadron_collider_judgement/

Feds urge court to dismiss lawsuit protecting life on Earth
'We'll take our chances with the strangelets'
By Burke Hansen → More by this author
Published Monday 30th June 2008 22:22 GMT
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The US government has asked a court to throw out a lawsuit that seeks
to stop the world from ending.
Late last week, federal lawyers along with other defendants asked for
summary judgment in a lawsuit designed to halt the start-up of the
most powerful particle accelerator yet built. The lawsuit, which was
filed in Hawaii last March by Luis Sancho, a Spanish science writer,
and Walter Wagner, a retired radiation expert, against the European
Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, and its American quislings, the
Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory, claims that the Large Hadron Collider
could create microscopic black holes, strangelets and the ominous-
sounding "magnetic monopoles."

The collider will smash subatomic particles together at close to the
speed of light in search of ever more fundamental principles of
physics, but Sancho and his cohorts contend that the collider runs the
risk of creating new and dangerous particles with the potential to
devour the earth.
The so-called "strangelets" would in theory be created when the quarks
that form the basis of the atom recombine to form novel, more stable
quarks that would then fuse with normal matter. As the complaint
warns, "repeated fusions would result in a runaway fusion reaction,
eventually converting Earth to a strangelet of huge size."
The lawsuit also contends that there is a very real possibility that
the collision of matter at near light speed will result in an
implosion and the creation of a miniaturized black hole, and
"eventually all of Earth would fall into such growing micro-black
hole, converting Earth to a medium size black hole, around which would
orbit the moon, satellites, the ISS, etc."
Not to be outdone by known hazards such as black holes, the complaint
claims that magnetic monopoles are massive magnetic particles that
would catalyze the decay of "protons and atoms, causing them to
convert into other types of matter in a runaway reaction."
Attorneys for the Department of Justice moved to dismiss the complaint
on a variety of grounds, not least of which is its theatrical
absurdity. Government attorneys argued in supporting memoranda that
the case was moot, since the American contribution to the project had
already been made, and that, regardless, the United States was not
part of CERN. An American injunction would consequently have no impact
on the operation of the accelerator.
Government filings also note that this is not Mr. Wagner's first
rodeo, so to speak - he filed an almost identical lawsuit against the
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, in 1999, to no avail - the
complaint was dismissed for lack of credible scientific foundation.
The motions for summary judgment and dismissal will be heard on Sept.
2, 2008, giving us at least a couple of summer months to enjoy life as
we know it. (R)

DoubleA  The universe has no emptiness. It is wall to wall with some
thing. The BB was just a fluctuating in the fabric of space  Just a bad
wave function.took place.  Best to keep in mind that QM is founded on
probability waves   Bert