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Scientists get sued in advance for the end of the world
30 Mar, 2008 | CATEGORY: Science and Technology | SOURCE: Cosmiclog
You may have heard about the the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, that is being constructed underneath about half of Europe (er..OK, France and Switzerland). When it is finished it will be the world's biggest particle collider and be able to do all sorts of interesting new things. For example - it will be able to create mini black holes. For a long time now there has been real concern amongst some physicists, futurists and members of the public that this machine could literally create a runaway black hole that would swallow the entire planet amongst other unimaginable accidents.
Last week a lawsuit was filed in Hawaii's U.S. District Court. The suit calls on the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN to ease up on their LHC preparations for several months while the collider's safety was reassessed. Representatives at Fermilab in Illinois and at Europe's CERN laboratory, two of the defendants in the case, say there's no chance that the Large Hadron Collider would cause such cosmic catastrophes.
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