Raising the Alarm Over Massive and Dangerous New Experiment; Where Is the Oversight on CERN?

Sunday, 03 February 2008 21:57

Some of the world’s top scientists, including some Nobel Prize winners, are preparing to create black-hole material in a laboratory in Europe this spring. What will happen when they fire up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the largest machine on earth? Will the black-hole material be stable? Will it be controllable? European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists say their experiment is safe, but how they are sure? Some opposing nuclear physicists have raised the alarm, including a Nobel laureate.
Scientists at LHC, outside of Geneva, have been planning for years to collide bundles of 10,000,000,000,000 (10 trillion) protons moving at the speed of light head-on into other bundles of 10 trillion protons. The LHC is a new type of accelerator, which will cause collisions to pile up at predetermined junctions into a huge dogpile of collisions that have the potential to build spontaneous black-holes.

The new material created by this collision is unknown to humanity. Its dynamics are unpredictable. The methods and requirements for containment are unknown, and if an accident occurs and an uncontrollable black-hole is created, scientists do not know how they will destabilize it. What if this experiment “succeeds” beyond their wildest dreams and becomes uncontainable? What if this black-hole begins progressively compacting all the matter near it? What will be the result? No one knows. Who has a plan to destabilize any voracious material created? There does not appear to be one.

As the author of The Dominium, a new book outlining a new scientific model on antimatter and gravity relationships, I am raising questions about the presumption that mini-black-holes are harmless. The Dominium model outlines cosmological events from Big Bang to Big Bang. This model is not plagued by anomaly as other theories are. It is coherent. It is seamless. Yet this model presents the awful implication: mini black-holes will not disappear as simply as predicted. They will persist, and they will begin compacting, which in scientific terms means they will be “stable” and uncontrollable.

Think about it. If a biotech lab were even to discuss making mutant creations the opposition would be loud and long. If scientists claimed these creations would be harmless, the world would demand proof. Suppose that same biotech company were performing gene manipulation using small pox genes and crossing them into other viruses—with the assurance that any and all samples would be instantly destroyed—would the world community allow it to happen? Would we place our trust and our lives in the hands of these esteemed researchers—no. The only difference is that most lay people have a working understanding of viruses. Yet people generally possess virtually no understanding of black-holes and antimatter or high-energy physics. Is that an excuse for apathy? The danger posed by a synthetic stable black-hole is even greater than the small pox genome housed in an influenza host because some would survive the pandemic. No one would survive a runaway black-hole experiment that produced a stable sample that ultimately digests the entire planet. Yet we are allowing this extremely risky experiment to proceed unchecked. CERN physicists say that there is remote chance of creating black-hole material. They allege that their colossal machine will produce benign events similar to naturally occurring cosmic rays, i.e., lone nuclei that travel near the speed of light and bombard to Earth naturally.

Nobel laureate and physicist Franck Wilczek, as well as other respected physicists from Stanford, MIT, and Brown have published papers that disagree—the spontaneous formation of black-holes can occur inside of LHC, these papers maintain. Others have formed the organizations, LifeBoat and LHCdefense, which are asking why haven’t all the safety concerns been fully addressed? To concerns raised by these papers, LHC proponents retort that the Earth hasn’t been hurt by comic rays in all these years, so there is still no need to worry. But are successive head-on high speed collisions and subsequent dogpiling of trillions of particles really comparable to a lone nuclei traveling at high speed hitting the Earth? It doesn’t seem very analogous.

One theory asserts that cosmic rays often produce mini black-holes naturally in the environment, however these claims are not backed up with any recorded evidence. The only supports for this theory are computer simulations, which the proponents designed themselves. But can computer modeling truly be considered evidence in the absence of recorded confirmation? A computer can be programmed to show just about anything—even fantasy and fiction. If lone nuclei cosmic rays do not produce black-holes, then there is no reason to suggest that synthetic black-holes could spontaneously evaporate safely out of existence, as LHC proponents would have us hope.

If you are interested in pursuing this topic, The Dominium can be read in part at http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/37b63e This book has been written to reach a broad audience interested in science. It has received wide interest and heated debate in blogspace at Scientific American:


http://science-community.sciam.com/blog/Hasanuddins-Blog/300005039



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Hasanuddin; Title: The Dominium; Subtitle: Sequencing antimatter and gravity effects: Big Bang to black hole; and implications for a manmade near-future doomsday: End-of-all-life on Earth