Aaron
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 |  Subject: Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth?  Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:19 pm | |
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- Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth?
The potential for the world's largest atom smasher to destroy Earth is one question weighing on the minds of some lay people as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to go online Wednesday.
Don't worry, say the experts, who are more concerned with whether the 17 mile-long particle accelerator underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, will work as planned and, perhaps, reveal the existence of the so-called God particle.
All that in mind, here are answers to several questions buzzing around on the eve of the LHC's inaugural run... http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/080909-llm-lhc-faq.html | |
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| | Subject: Re: Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth? Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:41 am | |
| Earth is safe. Gravity is the weakest of the known forces and at that scale it would be overwhelmed by the others. | |
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