In what can only be considered a bizarre court case, a former nuclear safety officer and others are suing the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN to stop the use of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) until its safety is reassessed. The plaintiffs cite three possible ‘doomsday’ scenarios which might occur if the LHC becomes operational: the creation of microscopic black holes which would grow and swallow matter, the creation of strangelets which, if they touch other matter, would convert that matter into strangelets or the creation of magnetic monopoles which could start a chain reaction and convert atoms to other forms of matter.
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I believe that the basic premise behind the LHC is flawed in its inception. The LHC is going to smash together elements at near light sppeds to generate new particles that were present at the moment of the Big Bang. Not even close.
At the moment of the Big Bang a large amorphous something was created. According to present knowledge, it took thousands of years for electrons, neutrons, quarks and other particles to form. After particle formation, matter held light captive for additional thousands of years. Only then did the expansion of matter and light result in our present state of the universe with its myriad elements.
The scientists say that by colliding protons and other elements, that they will generate elements that were present at the moment of the Big Bang. Wrong:
(1) A the moment of the Big Bang there were no elements. They took thousands of years to evolve.
(2) Colliding protons together may indeed create new short lived elements, but who is to say that the collision of protons/evolved-matter, now is going to create elments that were present just after the Big Bang. That is like saying you can smash together 2 Cadillacs(Proto Universes) to create a new Universe, and then take the resultant pieces of the smashed cars, smash them together again and learn how to build new Cadillacs. There is no way you can smash together the resultant car pieces and learn how to make plastics, refine steel, create molds and stamp metal by this method. This method cannot be used to determine the origins of automobile production or the creation of the short lived particles that evolved long after after the Big Bang.
(3) The universe we live in now is the result of particles having evolved out of the amorphous something at the time of the Big Bang. We are now being told that our present day particles can, at the time of a collision, produce short lived particles that were the building blocks of our present catalog of elements. By what reasoning ? By our own present understanding our present particles took thousands of years to evolve, and now we are being told, by people whose purpose it is to have a new collider, that they are the result of extremely short lived elements at the instant of the Big Bang. By our present understanding of the universe, there were no elements at the moment of the Big Bang. They took thousands of years to evolve. Short lived particles may have evolved after the Big Bang, and resulted in the elements we have now, but even their creation was the result of evolution over a long period of time. What needs to be understood is what the amorphous something was/was composed of, at the moment of the Big Bang and how elements evolved from that amorphous something.
(4) Smashing together of particles now, to know what happened at the instant of the Big Bang, makes no sense, unless when you smash together these present particles, and then you wait for thousands of years to see what does evolve.
(5) What does make sense is to dissassemble the currrent atomic structures, and protons, electrons, quarks and other elements to determine their present causes of operation, and from this deduce the original modes of creation/operation.
(6) We should not be lied to, and told that elements were created at the time of the Big Bang when we already know differently. Lying to get what you want is what little children do and has no place in professional science.
The LHC is a lie in its inception, and a deception of the public-at-large. The spending of large amounts of money for this machine, to determine the types and operation of very short lived particles, resulting in an understanding of the operation of our universe at the instant of the Big Bang, is an enormous lie. And someone owes the public an apology for such a grand and ostentatious lie.