Hey guys,
As the media all over the world announced today the the
LHC was now running and that all is well and safe, we have again been mislead into a false sense of
security.
The test runs done in the
LHC today were only particle beams in one direction. No major collisions were performed by two beams crashing in together (the conditions needed to recreate the big bang) - and these are the conditions
physicists are worried about as they may create black holes and explosions.
I find it quite deceptive that this wasn't explained by the media - especially when i turned on my Tv i heard 'we can all live another day the LHC is safe'. It seems that the PR stunt cern pulled with the LHC worked well today and has got the media off their back - for now. The real threat now comes as the LHC tests the collisions from 2 beams over the coming weeks.
I feel the LHC experiment highlights the complete arrogance of science today. The project has had total disregard for the safety implications of the planet and was continued even when scientists on the project acknowledged they were 'messing with the unknown'. And what was this done all in the name for anyway? - well not much really, just to prove some theories which yield no practical benefit to us .
Just like the HAARP project being carried out in the US, that fact is that that large man made experiments like the LHC now really do have the power to damage the earth . In this way, we are literally handing over the responsibility of the safety of the planet into the hands of the few scientists and politicians who oversea these multi billion dollar projects.
- But should we surrender our trust just because we are told scientists are doing these things 'for the benefit of mankind' when really we are handing over resources of enormous power and potential danger? - your comments appreciated guys
LHC in action...
Here's an article on the LHC in operation:
At 9.30am the start-up team in Geneva announced they had achieved "first beam" at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex scientific instrument ever built.
Protons - one of the building blocks of matter - were spun round the giant particle accelerator's 27 kilometre-long circular beam tunnel at just a fraction under the speed of light.
The next challenge is to “capture” both beams, so they fire in neat 2mm pulses, and to fine-tune them. Then the LHC will move on to collide the two, to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang. There will be no collisions today, but it is possible that some trial collisions will be performed as early as next week, to help scientists to calibrate their detectors ....
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