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The “Big Bang” Experiment: Are we in for a disaster?

If critics are to be believed, the end of the universe will begin coming Wednesday, September 10, when the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes into action located 300 feet underground near the French-Swiss border. In what could be the world’s biggest scientific experiment till date to know how the universe was born, speculations are rife that it will trigger the end of world and universe.

experiment that commences on September 10 when the physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), located near Geneva, will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is a $10 billion 17-mile long particle accelerator lying in a circular tunnel beneath the border of France and Switzerland. When it gets switched on, this atom-smasher will become a virtual time machine, revealing what happened when the universe came into existence 14 billion years ago.

One of the chief goals of the LHC experiments is to find the elusive Higgs boson, the only fundamental particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics that has not been directly observed. The Higgs boson plays a key role in explaining the origins of mass in other elementary particles. They hope to shed some light on the invisible material that exists between particles known as “dark matter” as very little is known about that which make up most of the universe.

With the discovery of new particles, the scientists aim to recreate the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big and provide vital clues to the building blocks of life. The scientists involved in this project have waited for this moment for two decades and they are on the verge of creating history, but the research team is up against protests and demonstrations by critics who have dubbed this as a Doomsday test.

Concerns have been raised that turning on the LHC could lead to the ultimate destruction of earth and universe, and hence the research should be stopped. TV news channels and tabloids have come up with their own theories of mass destruction and end of life speculations that have created an environment of uncertainty and unnecessary panic world wide. It has also been reported that some scientists working for CERN have been receiving threatening e-mails and text messages to stop them from moving ahead with their dream project.

The critics are of the opinion that the world’’s largest particle accelerator will produce fearsome entities that would result in energies being developed which will be so powerful that a runaway Black Hole will be created that could consume the earth in no time. There have been even petitions in the Courts to put a break on this project on the ground of saving the earth and mankind. There have been two lawsuits, one American and another European, against this experiment, but their attempts have been rejected by the concerned Courts.

However, the group responsible for the experiment, CERN, says that these mini black holes will vanish as quickly as they are created. All these negative speculations have been played down by CERN and the whole issue has been validated as completely safe, with more dangerous cosmic rays constantly found in nature than could ever be produced by the machine. The head of PR James Gillies apparently is inundated with people fearing for their lives, and said- “I find myself getting slightly angry with the fact that people have been driven to do that by what is nonsense. What we are doing is enriching humanity, not putting it at risk.”

At the same time, the Safety Assessment Group, which has conducted an in-depth study into the potential impact of the machine writes- “Each collision of a pair of protons in the LHC will release an amount of energy comparable to that of two colliding mosquitoes, so any black hole produced would be much smaller than those known to astrophysicists.” Another report termed this “end of the world rumor” as bogus and said that cosmic ray collisions are more energetic than those produced in the LHC, therefore LHC experiment shouldn’t be looked up as a fear.

CERN also issued a report revealing that, even if a black hole were to form, it would rapidly evaporate due to Hawking Radiation. The CERN director general, Robert Aymar, said that the LHC will enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us and any suggestion that it might pose a risk to earth and mankind is pure fiction.

Now, if the people involved with the project come out with such clarifications, the doubt should probably get cleared because they are the ones who will be closest to the site of danger, if there is any. Every research or experiment has its own pros and cons and if we sit back for the fear of “something”, then we are not going to venture into new horizons. Had the earlier researchers and general people would have thought on the same line of safe passage, then we would have still been living in stone edge.

Let us hope that something fruitful comes out of the expedition and the fear of calamity be drowned. And if there is no such calamity, as is feared, then we will probably learn all sorts of exciting new things about the nature of the universe. Exactly what comes out of these collisions, and how it behaves, will hopefully make us more knowledgeable and the new findings may be utilized for betterment of life.

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