If you read my first post on this topic, you are up to date. So to continue.....
Three hundred feet below France and Switzerland is a machine that could not only destroy the earth, but the universe as well!
This summer they will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful atom smasher.
Seventeen miles in circumference, it collides counter-rotating beams of protons and detects the showers of subatomic particles with precision detectors that are seven stories high.
The protons make 11,245 laps around the 17 mile beam tube each second!
Although the proton beam has a mass of only one ten-thousanth of a grain of sand, it is moving so close to the speed of light that it has the energy of a 30,000 pound fighter jet moving at 500 mph!
The control of the proton beam is such that it travels through a tube less than 3 inches in diameter.
The machine is designed to re-create conditions of the so called big bang theory. If it works as expected, it could be a crowning achievement in quantum physics.
However, many believe this machine could actually create a black hole, that will grow to not only swallow the earth, but eventually the entire universe as well!
So the question here, as before. Should they be allowed to start up this machine?
What if they are wrong? What if it does create a black hole that cannot be suppressed?
Does this handful of scientists have the right to gamble with the future of matter itself?
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