Physicists ignore black hole theory

Leading physicists are set to go ahead with a Big Bang experiment despite warnings it could destroy the universe.


Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) plan to smash particle beams together at close to the speed of light to create mini-versions of the explosion believed to have triggered the birth of the cosmos.

Cosmologists think an explosion of an object the size of a small coin occurred about 13.7 billion years ago and led to the formation of all matter.

A key aim of the experiment is to find the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle" that some theorists believe give matter its mass.

But the experiment, which will take place inside a 17-mile tunnel deep underneath the Swiss-French border called a Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could shed light on other mysteries like the existence of supersymmetry, dark matter and dark energy.

News of the controlled explosion has led to warnings of potential disaster.

Some critics say the experiment will create "black holes" of intense gravity that could implode the Earth, or that it will open the way for beings from another universe to invade through a "worm hole" in space-time.

A safety review by scientists at CERN and in the US and Russia rejected the prospect of such outcomes.

Robert Aymar, the French physicist who heads the research centre, said: "The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction."

Professor Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, said: "Collisions at these and greater energies occur millions of times a day in the Earth’s atmosphere, and nothing terrible happens."

The experiment is set to begin soon after 8am on Wednesday.

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well if they are wrong and its the end, least i got 2 the final lol

haha same same

Its just a particle accelerater, there are already about 6 in the world this one is just gonna make them faster, nothing will happen.

only a few times bigger and more powerfull than all of the others put 2gether lol

Yeah I know, but the theorys the same, this could mean more advanced in technology in the next ten years than the last 100, its massive and do you really think they would even try it if it was going to end the world.