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A GERMAN WOMAN who fears that the Earth will be sucked into a black hole created by boffins operating the Large Hadron Collider has failed in her court bid to have the atom-smasher switched off.
The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's appeal because she was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about."
"The overwhelming scientific opinion is that the experiments carried out at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) present no dangers," the court added.
The woman, who has not been named and who lives outside Germany, failed to get an injunction with a Cologne court seeking to oblige the German government to stop the project.
She really need not have bothered, as the LHC already managed to shut itself off for a year without any court order.
According to the BBC, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to fix design and safety faults. Dr Steve Myers said the faults will delay the machine reaching its full potential for two years.
The atom smasher will reach world record collision energies later this month at 7 trillion electron volts. But the tunnel must be made safe before proton collisions planned at twice that level can start.
French birds did shut down the LHC last year by battering it with bread in a desperate bid to switch it off.
Engineers believe the machine is safe to run at 7 trillion electron volts but want to avoid another breakdown at higher energies. So they have taken the decision to run the machine for 18 to 24 months at half-maximum power before switching it off for a year to carry out improvements to the 27km tunnel. µ
Listen to the freshmaker, for his words are spoken truth.
What up with both of you guys?
Who said God(or gods) and Science can't coexist?
If Science says that God doesn't exist, will it cease to exist?
If religion say Science is wrong, does it have any impact in the scientific beliefs and findings?
'Religion' is not God, who we suppose is the holder of Truth, as Science is not the absolute Truth, but the seek for it.
We humans are aeons away from any sight of truth. Religion and Science are only paths to reach closer to truth, but we humans must not mistake the path for the goal.
Before each of you start throwing 'truths' on each other, think again, and start looking for consistencies instead of differences.
The fields of Science and religion are not completely opposite, they are all pieces of a far greater 'truth', that one day we may see a glimpse.
You are displaying exactly the kind of bigoted anti-science attitude that Ramon was talking about. Moreover you misunderstand the basics.
Darwin's Evolution says nothing about how life started, only how life inevitably evolves once it did. Evolution is a proven scientific fact which can be observed both in the lab and in real life. It's not just an "idea" or "theory" as some claim. You can create a new species in just a few generations if you apply high selective pressure. This has been done many times.
As for how life started, while we haven't proven this yet, we have proven the building blocks of life (eg. amino acids) form spontaneously from basic matter. All you need is one self replicating molecule to form. While the chances of this happening in a lab are infinitesimal, taken over billions of years across the whole Universe, life becomes a certainty.
Hey, jackass, speaking of religious idolatry, why don't you look up the definition of "scientific method" and take the time to ACTUALLY COMPARE IT TO HOW PEOPLE "PROVE" DARWIN'S THEORIES.
Evolutionary theory is about as scientific as the idea that rotten meat spontaneously produces maggots, and I mean that quite literally.
Evolutionary theory deserves a place in the philosophy section of the library, not in the science section. It has never been proven that life can spontaneously come about from within lifeless material. If they can't do that, then evolutionary theory is just another idea that can't be proven. Just like the idea that the earth was created in 7 days. You're in the same damn boat.
So, what's next???
The Earth is flat, 8 000 years old, was created in 7 days and is the center of the Universe? What else? Darwin is wrong and the 14 000 gods/deities humans created over the ages exist? LMAO!!!
The abysmal disparities between delusional, stone cold nuts people trapped in their "belief system" based on irrational faith and self determined people using empirical knowledge to guide them defining their realities is absolutely astonishing! Especially considering the 10 000 years of civilization we, human being, went through.
Many should start reading books other than the unilaterally enforced static, sterile and mythical doctrine...
To all of you stuck in 8 000 BC to 1800 AD, we are all waiting for you, right here in 2010, with our arms wide open.
Ramon
She could have pointed out the massive environmental damage caused by the electricity needed to run the thing, the massive amounts of diesel burned during it's construction, all the heavy metals that were mined, the list goes on and on.
The scientific community seems to largely agree that we need to reduce our environmental impact, but somehow think they are exempt because when they trash the environment it's for some grand, noble (or nobel) cause.
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