Humans are very strange creatures. On one hand we are curious, we ask questions and seek answers. Bun on the other hand the unknown terrifies us. It is of course a good hing that keeps us from jumping from a window on tenth floor to see how long we'd be falling down, but sometimes ignorance and fear are stronger then reason and the need to seek answers.
Yes, that is my first dA rant and yes, I know it'll stay comment-less since nobody reads my journals, nut I just need to express my frustration on a subject....
..of LHC.
yes... Large Hadron Collider, or the doomsday device as some would like to see it. It's a magnificent device build by hundreds of greatest minds in Europe (and the US of A probably too) to verify few important theories ang get few answers that'd give us an idea what happened during the Big Bang. So what is it? Basically it's a ser of super-strong magnets and superconductors cooled below 2 Kelvins (that's 2 degrees Celsius above the absolute zero) powered with 12000 Amper coils to give protons energy of 14 TeV (thats teraelectronovolts = 1'000'000'000'000 eV) and that's quite a lot I must say. Two oposite beams of said particles would then collide in a specially designed chamber to see what happens then. And that's the beauty if it. Raw energy used to brutally smash matter against matter will give answers to many scientific questions. Is it dangerous? Probably yes since the collision chamber and whole accelerator is shield with super strong magnetic field to keep everything inside. But is it more dangerous then your common nuclear plant reactor or nuclear fusion tokamak? Not really. Naturally, the concentration of energy s much bigger, but total energy reminds more or less the same. We just don't have the radiation, or high energy plasma, just several super fast protons.
So why I ask there are so many people fearing for the existence of this planet ad even the universe itself because of that?
There are probably few answers to that
One, first nuclear reactors were a military secret and first fusion experiments were made on universities without telling anyone while CERN is simply too big to keep things low.
Two. People love stories about the end-time. OMG there's a top secret satelite that's going to fall on our heads. Oh My Gawd there are so many diseases among cows and birds! And many more... it's really hard not to be paranoid in this world. But when I hear that some guy sued CERN for theoretically possible micro black holes that could be produced by LHC or strange matter that could be generated there it's jus too much for me to live with without a proper
Three. Most people are stupid and they believe things that are stupid rather then listen to those few smart people who know stuff but are simply too occupied to tell the others in a way they would understand it. (not too much sense here, but meh...)

Few facts:
There is something like Einstein's energy-matter equation. You know it well enough: E=mc^2. There's also Hawking's law of black holes decay that states that the smaller the black hole is the shorter it's life time is and it goes down really fast. Now how do you thing how big would a black hole be if it's made of few protons? A little help: „If the Sun was replaced with a black hole that had the same mass as the Sun, the Schwarzschild radius would be 3 km (compared to the Sun's radius of nearly 700,000 km).” Schwarzschild radius is the radius of the event horizon. Mass of the sun is 1,9891 × 10^30 kg where mass of the proton is 1,67 x 10^(-27) that's more or less 10^57 times smaller. So yeah, even IF those black holes would appear they'd vaporise instantly because their energy is too small to exist and if they'd consume something their decay rate would even increase (according to Hawking's law.) so yeah, not a problem.
Strange matter... that's a serious problem. Reconfiguration of matter could happen and nogody actually knows anything about it... but basically... That's the point of colliding high energy particles!! and for those who think it's dangerous: all matter we know is the matter we're made of so if there was a more efficient matter (the one everyone are afraid of) why it's not the dominant matter in our part of the universe? Since we're recreating the moment of creation without the ability to change basic nature's parameters the final result should be... the common matter. Why? Because that's the way it all went in the first place.
And for all the others abnormal things that are theoretically possible, I know physicists and I know that everything is posible for them, only some possibilities are really close to 0. in other words, the possibility of spontaneous matter recombination from air into newest laptop is much bigger then most of the things people are afraid i LHC.
End of story

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Random though:Higgs boson looks like sombrero


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