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A Lawyer's View of the Risk of Black Hole Catastrophe at the LHC

Lien: http://www.physorg.com/news183380986.html

This is a quote from an article published at Physorg January 22 2010:

'Is an LHC doomsday scenario a groundless fear or a legitimate concern?'

And:
'Eric E. Johnson, an assistant professor of law at the University of North Dakota, has undertaken this task from a legal point of view. He has recently published a paper in the Tennessee Law Review in which he investigates how the courts might handle the LHC case and other future cases of largely unprecedented, potentially dangerous sci-fi-like experiments. The 90-page paper is highly readable for non-scientists, and is available at arxiv.org. Johnson, who admits that he is “unanxious” about a doomsday scenario, has two reasons for writing the paper: first, to present a kind of case study for debate among lawyers; and second, to prepare to solve such a legal case in real life.'

And:
'Johnson said that, while researching the subject, he was surprised at the legitimate science controversy surrounding the crazy-sounding idea of black holes destroying the Earth.

Many of the physicists quoted in the media on LHC safety issues seem not to have engaged with the literature in any depth,” Johnson told PhysOrg.com. “Physicists speaking to the public about the black-holes question portray it as a simple matter. It really is not. At the end of the day, the LHC may or may not be safe, but most of the arguments you hear in favor of the collider lack robustness.”'

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22.01.10. 20:03:08. 239 mots, 214 vues. Catégories: B News , 1 commentaire »

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Commentaire de: Sean Smith [Visiteur]
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the singularity which is said to contain "all" the matter and energy in our know universe erupts into the universe as we know it! If we take a grain of sand in comparison to all the matter in the universe and slam it into another grain of sand in an effort to see what they are composed of is not even near the energy and mass required to create any significant singularity or reaction.

23.01.10 @ 16:24

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