Supercolliders


First particles injected into Large Hadron Collider atom smasher -- Jad Marrouche  -- Telegraph  -- August 21, 2008
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The first particles have been injected into the biggest atom smasher on the planet, marking the start of the countdown to probing the secrets of the universe. Scientists are pushing ahead with powering up the machine, shrugging off speculative fears that it could destroy all life on Earth by sucking it into a black hole.

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Some Fear Debut of Powerful Atom-Smasher -- Staff  -- CNN  -- June 30, 2008
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The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth?

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Earth 'Not at Risk' from Collider -- Paul Rincon  -- BBC News  -- June 23, 2008
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Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded. The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.

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Particle Accelerator May Reveal Shape Of Alternate Dimensions -- Staff  -- Science Daily  -- February 4, 2008
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When the world's most powerful particle accelerator starts up later this year, exotic new particles may offer a glimpse of the existence and shapes of extra dimensions. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California-Berkeley say that the telltale signatures left by a new class of particles could distinguish between possible shapes of the extra spatial dimensions predicted by string theory.

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Lab fireball 'may be black hole' -- Staff  -- BBC News  -- March 17, 2005
Physics

A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said.

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One grid to rule them all -- Staff  -- Economist  -- October 7, 2004
Physics

Physicists met to discuss plans to link supercomputing centers worldwide into a massive global grid that will help process super collider data.

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Dream Machine: Hopes for a giant collider lie in a worldwide appeal -- David Appell  -- Scientific American  -- March 8, 2004
Physics

The international high-energy physics community is campaigning for a 30-kilometer long, internationally funded, particle accelerator that could "offer a precise tool to explore some of the most important unanswered questions in physics."

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A Risk to Earth -- James Blodgett  -- Risk Evaluation Forum  -- November 16, 2003
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James Blodgett has setup a new website to discuss the risks that upcoming high energy collider experiments might destroy the earth or even the universe.

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We're All Gonna Die! -- Gregg Easterbrook  -- Wired Magazine  -- July 1, 2003
Nanotechnology

Gregg Easterbrook offers a skeptical guide to the most common doomsday scenarios.

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Artificial black holes: on the threshold of new physics -- Michelle Thaller  -- Christian Science Monitor  -- May 23, 2003
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Scientists are becoming increasingly confident that they will be able to create black holes on demand, in quantity, using the new atom-smashers due to come online in the next five years. Some estimates suggest that the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be able to create an average of one black hole each second.

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