CERN LHC Q & A

Would you like to ask the CERN any questions?

Just contact those fine people at CERN directly and ask them all the questions you may have. Ask them for the safety report if you get a chance. And about the Honolulu suit and the European suit before the Strassbourg court of Human Rights and what they plan to do about it. Ask them also why they think that legal actions can have no effect whatsoever on their plans to activate the LHC because they were 'awarded' diplomatic immunity by the Swiss Government in 1955. Ask them for a detailed LHC project plan too. Ask them if they would mind a public TV debate with Prof. Dr. Rössler. And call CERN public relations by phone, email or fax them. They are paid to inform you.

I am confident that they will be more than happy to answer all your questions ;-)

CERN Top Management:
Aymar@cern.ch Aymar Robert, Director
Evans@cern.ch LHC Project leader
J.May@cern.ch LHC Technical Director

CERN Public relations:
CERN, Press Office,
CH - 1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland

Tel.: + 41 22 76 721 41 or + 41 22 76 734 32
Fax: + 41 22 78 502 47

Email: Press.Office@cern.ch

James Gillies
Head of Communication and CERN's spokesman
Tel.: + 41 22 76 741 01
Email: James.Gillies@cern.ch

The CERN is working since 15 years on the LHC project. The CERN is owned by 20 countries. The LHC will be the largest in the world. The particles will have a speed of 400000 km per second, this is faster than the light!

The CERN an many other scientists says, while the dangers are theoretically possible events, they are so improbable that the risk can be excluded.

The Risks include a black hole that sucks our universe in (and a worm hole that lets us timetravel). Some say, that the black hole could theoretically also let us travel to another universe, but the forces will be so high, that we get torn apart before we travel.

If the LHC does it right, it will recreate the Big Bang. Many different areas of scientists will profit tremendously if the LHC works and our world will look different soon.

But if it goes wrong, there will be possibly no world left. No humans, no animals, no earth, no stars, no planets. The whole universe could get sucked in.

Some courageous scientists have created funds and are trying to 'halt' the project. Not stop it!

They want its security aspects to be reviewed by an independant panel.

It would be very surprising if they can stop the production ready date of the LHC. The CERN claims supranational status, this is an extremely high profile project and due to a large explosion production date had already to be delayed by 3 years.

The CERN is recognizing some of the risks, but downplaying the probability.

What I find surprising, that the CERN seems to be getting some facts wrong. They say that there would in the worst case only be a miniscule black hole produced and this would disappear nearly instantly because to small and weak.

I have read sufficient documentation to beleave that even a small black hole would suck in our universe - only slower.

While some say, it would take 50 billions to suck us in, others argue that 50 months is realistic.

This is a HUGE difference - I know.

Just a simple citizen reading the news.

This is probably the most courageous project mankind has implemented.

The CERN LHC is the largest machine ever build by mankind.
The CERN LHC is the most expensive machine ever build by mankind.
And, I believe, the CERN LHC is potentially the most dangerous machine ever build by mankind.

The tunnel has a length of 27 kilometers and consumes half the power of the whole city of Geneva when switched on.

Our universe could cease to exist, we might learn technologies that we can't even imagine today.

Actually anything could happen with this thing.

Over 3900 scientists are working on the LHC.

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Currently they are nearly all extremely silent. Mangano says that 99.9% of the scientists think the LHC is safe. And the remaining 0.1 % Mangano calls 'crackpots'. Maybe the other scientists that see risks don't speak up in order to not be called 'crackpots' by Mangano?

Or maybe because:
Some of these scientists are working on the LHC project for over 15 years. For some, these 15 years are their whole professional career. Some of these scientists may get finally recognition for their hard work - maybe a Nobel Prize or some other prestigous prices.
The experiments which will be run at the LHC are extremely fascinating. Established scientists like Stephen Hawking support the safety of the LHC.
And like journalists, most scientists are sheep. And scientists can be like little children playing with a great new toy, the LHC.
The LHC may answer questions that are very essential to humankind (god particle, big bang).
There have been several delays and there is fear that the countries that pay for it will stop providing funds if the CERN LHC is not turned on in time.
There has been an internal memo to CERN scientists to say that 'there is absolutely no risk'. Before they said, there is a small risk of producing a Black Hole.
Mangano publicly calls the remaining 0.1 % scientists perceiving risks 'crackpots' - and gets away with it.

Wiktionary Definition of a crackpot

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crackpot

crackpot (plural crackpots)

1. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.

Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.