LHC Kritik / LHC Critique

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 8, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Swiss paper today writes about data leaks in CERN network including pre-studies about possible origin of the cosmos and quite personal information, available also through MIT…
CERN argues it is the intended method to share information worldwide. Some security experts consider this to be naive:
http://www.sonntagszeitung.ch/nachrichten/artikel-detailseiten/?newsid=106138

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 7, 2009 at 6:17 pm

UN-complaint and press release will be published soon:

http://lhc-concern.info/?page_id=11

November 2, 2009

“God Machine” Critics to U.N.: Experiment an Affront to Human Rights

by Dan Clery

With the CERN particle physics lab due to start shooting particles around its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) again this month, and the first particle collisions expected in December, anti-LHC campaigners are on the warpath again. A new group calling itself the Committee on CERN Experimental Dangers (ConCERNed) will submit a complaint in the next few days to the human rights committee of the United Nations calling for work with the LHC to be stopped because it threatens life on Earth and so violates the complainants human rights.

Some physicists have suggested that the extreme high energy of the collisions that will take place in the LHC could create postulated entities including mini-black holes and strangelets. Critics say that the tiny black holes could swallow up the Earth or that strangelets could convert all matter in to strange matter. But leading physicists who have studied the matter say that well-established principles all but guarantee that neither catastrophe would occur. The black holes would quickly decay back into the particles that collided to create them. To pull in positively charged nuclei, stranglets would have and maintain a negative electric charge even as they gobble up the nuclei, which would violate conservation of charge.

CERN has commissioned several safety reviews, employing internal and external scientists, and found the risks to be so small as to be not worth more delay. The main argument in these reviews has been that collisions of similar energies happen daily in the upper atmosphere as cosmic rays slam into atoms in the air and, so far, Earth has survived unscathed.

ConCERNed and similar groups argue that since such review committees are convened by CERN, and staffed with particles physicists who have devoted their careers to the results of the LHC’s experiments, there is a conflict of interest. They are calling for a halt to CERN’s work and for a truly independent panel, involving ethicists and risk analysis experts, to be assembled. Earlier attempts to stop the LHC, in the U.S. District Court in Hawaii and the European Court of Human Rights, have failed, but in the coming weeks particle physicists will be keeping an eye on the U.N.’s human rights committee.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/critics-of-god.html

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 7, 2009 at 1:52 pm

‘Something may come through’ dimensional ‘doors’ at LHC
Attack of the Hyperdimensional Juggernaut-Men

By Lewis Page
Posted in Physics, 6th November 2009 12:02 GMT

A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or “unknown unknowns” - for instance “an extra dimension”.

“Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it,” said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, briefing reporters including the Reg at CERN HQ earlier this week.
[…]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/06/lhc_dimensional_portals/

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 6, 2009 at 7:26 am

The Times’ special about LHC:

From Times Online

November 5, 2009

Large Hadron Collider stalled again… thanks to chunk of baguette

Further investigation into the failure of a cryogenic cooling plant revealed an unusual impediment. A piece of crusty bread had paralysed a high voltage installation that should have been powering the cooling unit.
[…]
“Nobody knows how it got there,” she told The Times. “The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird, either that or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/physics/article6905250.ece

November 5, 2009

LHC: Black holes and bunkum
Nature sabotaging the LHC? Black holes devouring the planet? The CERN project has provoked some fearful reactions

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article6899506.ece

LHC: a force to be reckoned with
Protons travelling at almost the speed of light are a dangerous proposition. Stopping them safely is no easy job

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article6899512.ece

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm

Current letter from Dr. Walter Wagner to CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer:

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MONTEREY BAY PERPETUAL
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Utah Division
556 E. 3050 N., Provo, UT 84604
lhcdefense {at} hotmail(.)com

October 31, 2009

Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General
Administration Headquarters
ORGANISATION EUROPÉENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLÉAIRE
CERN - EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
Geneva, Switzerland

Re: LHC Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) Report by Red-Team (Beta)

Sehr geehrter Herr Doktor Heuer:

Entschuldigung dass Ich schreibe viel besser auf Englisch als auf Deutsch.

I apologize that my German writing ability is not good compared to my English writing ability.

We continue to review the LHC operations, and note that the cooldown has finished, and that beam has been reintroduced into the ring.

We have continued to review our analysis, and still find the same conclusions:

1) The prospect that near-relativistic micro-black-holes could have a near-zero cross-section for interaction, while slow (less than earth’s escape velocity) micro-black-holes would have measureable cross-sections, has not been refuted. That prospect negates the Mangano safety argument, which relies upon micro-black-holes having measurable cross-sections at relativistic speeds.

2) The prospect that a large quark-gluon-stew would form from Lead-Lead collisions which might give rise to a strangelet, whereas the proton-Lead collisions in nature of comparable COM energy would not give rise to a sufficiently large quark-gluon-plasma. The small size of the protons striking a Lead nucleus in nature might simply drill through the nucleus, forming too small of a quark-gluon-stew to create the conditions ripe for strangelet formation. Conversely, the Lead-Lead collisions at the LHC might be able to obtain what nature cannot.

We particularly note that the first prospect, which on first impression might seem unusual, is actually the way physics works with respect to neutrons.

When the Englishman Chadwick first discovered neutrons, they were perplexing. Subsequent study revealed that if they were slowed, they would interact with Uranium, forming a Barium precipitate. That odd result, of course, is now at the heart of every nuclear reactor (which are considerable in number, and include several small Russian reactors in space, dozens of ocean-floating naval reactors, and hundreds of land-based reactors), most of which are operating on a daily basis. Slow neutrons have a very large cross-section for interaction, and with Uranium, for fission-interaction with the U-235 nucleus (and to a lesser degree with the U-234 and U-238 also present). Conversely, fast neutrons have a greatly reduced cross-section for interaction (for fission, or for elastic and inelastic collisions). Different nuclei present different target cross-sections for neutrons of the same energy. And, to date, the data we have obtained for the cross-section versus speed for various nuclei is obtained entirely empirically, and we have only the crudest models to explain the great variations in cross-section with speed.

Consequently, we can have no faith in a naked assertion such as that made by Michaelangelo Mangano that he knows that the cross-section for interactions for the theoretical micro-black-hole, travelling at near-relativistic speed, is sufficiently large that it would be stopped by a neutron star, collapsing that target and causing the neutron star to disappear from view. We simply cannot know what that cross-section for interaction is at near-relativistic speed, and some theory suggests it is very near to zero.

The prior blue-team report did not even attempt to address the difference between Lead-Lead collisions at the LHC at comparable COM energies to the proton-Lead collisions in nature. I suspect that was not addressed because they recognized that the two are NOT the same, and that the LHC Lead-Lead collisions will be entirely different than the cosmic ray collisions of nature. Instead, it simply relied upon theoretical ‘arguments’ which argued that it was “unlikely” to be different. Again, this is simply a naked assertion not supported by empirical evidence, and very preliminary theoretical argument without any explanation of how it was determined to be “unlikely”, whatever that means. Some theory suggests that the lifetime of the quark-gluon-stew would be even longer at the LHC than at the RHIC (which was surprisingly longer than had been predicted), allowing for formation of dangerous strangelets.

Consequently, we are in a precarious situation, and it is strongly urged that you and your office show the moral courage to further analyze this situation as we suggest, before you give the OK to trigger LHC collisions at energies greater than Fermilab’s Tevatron for the proton-proton collisions, and at energies greater than Brookhaven’s RHIC for the Lead-Lead collisions

Yours very truly,

Walter L. Wagner
Captain, Red Team (Beta)

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 3, 2009 at 12:46 pm

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/critics-of-god.html

November 2, 2009

“God Machine” Critics to U.N.: Experiment an Affront to Human Rights

by Dan Clery

With the CERN particle physics lab due to start shooting particles around its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) again this month, and the first particle collisions expected in December, anti-LHC campaigners are on the warpath again. A new group calling itself the Committee on CERN Experimental Dangers (ConCERNed) will submit a complaint in the next few days to the human rights committee of the United Nations calling for work with the LHC to be stopped because it threatens life on Earth and so violates the complainants human rights.

Some physicists have suggested that the extreme high energy of the collisions that will take place in the LHC could create postulated entities including mini-black holes and strangelets. Critics say that the tiny black holes could swallow up the Earth or that strangelets could convert all matter in to strange matter. But leading physicists who have studied the matter say that well-established principles all but guarantee that neither catastrophe would occur. The black holes would quickly decay back into the particles that collided to create them. To pull in positively charged nuclei, stranglets would have and maintain a negative electric charge even as they gobble up the nuclei, which would violate conservation of charge.

CERN has commissioned several safety reviews, employing internal and external scientists, and found the risks to be so small as to be not worth more delay. The main argument in these reviews has been that collisions of similar energies happen daily in the upper atmosphere as cosmic rays slam into atoms in the air and, so far, Earth has survived unscathed.

ConCERNed and similar groups argue that since such review committees are convened by CERN, and staffed with particles physicists who have devoted their careers to the results of the LHC’s experiments, there is a conflict of interest. They are calling for a halt to CERN’s work and for a truly independent panel, involving ethicists and risk analysis experts, to be assembled. Earlier attempts to stop the LHC, in the U.S. District Court in Hawaii and the European Court of Human Rights, have failed, but in the coming weeks particle physicists will be keeping an eye on the U.N.’s human rights committee.

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 3, 2009 at 12:31 pm

Thanks to Jim ( www.LHCfacts.org ) for sending us the following link:

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THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: the beginning of the end for postmodern physics

http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showtopic=12199

“While those who have expressed concern about the safety of the LHC have been ridiculed and attacked personally, Nielsen is countered quietly and modestly, as public relations require. Those who propose that the LHC might trigger some disaster by unleashing unknown forces are called crackpots in the article. But mainstream physicists who propose unknown forces visiting us from the future to sabotage our current experiments are taken seriously and given worldwide soapboxes
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The simpler answer is the answer I give in my papers: the Higgs boson doesn’t exist. Matter may be given mass simply by assigning the length in Maxwell’s expression to a real motion. Once you do that, mass has a kinematic and dynamic presence in the field, without any other proposed sub-particles or sub-fields.
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Physics is now extravagantly unscientific. Notice that these physicists at the LHC are telling us what they are going to find before they find it
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The experiments are so expensive that the physicists cannot countenance a negative outcome: failure would be a career disaster. So every experiment is pushed via its interpretation. The math of physics is so soft that any interpretation can be backed up with “rigorous math.” Rigorous math now just means “long, difficult, and complex math.” But, in truth, the math isn’t rigorous at all, because it is based on sloppy foundations like background independent tensor fields and the like.
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For all these reasons and more, it is clear that the LHC is little more than a money hole built over a data hole. I never had much fear that the LHC would produce a major catastrophe, of the sort reported tongue-in-cheek in the papers. Just as I am sure that it will never produce baby black holes, I am sure that it will not create a large black hole that will swallow the earth. At the worst, the giant machine might trigger an explosion powerful enough to destroy itself and its surroundings, but that is neither here nor there. If all these people are engulfed in the flames of their own hubris, there might be some justice in that. But it was already of no consequence, as a matter of science, since none of these theories of the past half-century bears proving or disproving. I have shown that they are all fatally flawed at the axiomatic level, and no amount of data either for or against can reverse those flaws. You can’t build a machine large or expensive enough to fix logical flaws. It is not the Higgs boson that is coming from the future to doom the Large Hadron Collider. It is my papers that have done that. In the coming decades it will be understood that all the esoteric physical theories of the 20th century, like all the esoteric artistic theories of the 20th century, were castles in the air, straw castles and stick castles and plastic castles built upon the gas of a misguided milieu. The spectacular failure that the LHC is guaranteed to produce—either as a total failure to get up to speed or as a giant fireball or as an ultimate crescendo of the current lie—will be a turning point in the history of physics. Physics has long been unable to support its own weight, but this machine is like the tower of Babel, an overreach that will precipitate the necessary fall.”

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time November 1, 2009 at 2:13 am

CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer in an actual official statement:

[…]
The road from here should take us to the first circulating beams of 2009 by the second half of November, with collisions at injection energy following soon after. If things go well, we may have the first high-energy collisions before the end-of-year break, which would be the best Christmas present I could wish for. Starting up a new accelerator is a complex process, however, and we’re modifying the LHC schedule on a weekly basis in the light of progress. Just last week, we detected a helium leak that diverted attention from other things. Thankfully that turned out to be manageable, and did not slow us down. Commissioning the LHC for 3.5 TeV is the top priority now, and will take several weeks.
[…]

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/article?issue=45/2009&name=CERNBulletin&category=News%20Articles&number=2&ln=en

Comment from em
Time October 30, 2009 at 9:37 am

Wird das James Webb Teleskop nach AMS02 unter anderem wertvolle Daten zur notwendigen Risikoevaluierung des Hochrisikoforschungsprojekts ‘Large Hadron Collider’ liefern?

Nachdem die Pläne für Hubble nicht mehr rosig aussehen und das Teleskop wohl in einem Feuerball enden wird, ruht nun die Hoffnung auf dem offiziellen Nachfolger des Hubble Weltraum Teleskop – dem Infrarot-Teleskop James Webb.

Das Teleskop wurde nach dem NASA-Administrator James Webb, der Leiter der Mondlandung 1969, benannt und soll im August 2011 an Board einer Arian-V in eine sehr hohe Umlaufbahn um die Erde geschossen werden. (…)

James Webb soll so 10-100 mal schwächere Objekte aufspüren können als Hubble.
Zudem erhofft man sich, dass das Teleskop in der Lage ist, die Wärmestrahlung von Exoplaneten zu beobachten um so festzustellen, ob der Planet eine Atmosphäre besitzt und woraus sie zusammengesetzt ist.

Man erhofft sich Antworten auf die Fragen:

- Wie ist das Universum beschaffen
- Wie haben sich die Galaxien entwickelt
- Wie haben sich Sterne und Planeten entwickelt
- Wie kam die derzeitige chemische Zusammensetzung des Universums zustande
- Was steckt hinter der Dunklen Materie

Link zur offiziellen James-Webb-Homepage der NASA:
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

Quelle:
http://www.wissen-news.de/sonnensystem/james-webb-teleskop.php

Comment from Müller
Time October 29, 2009 at 11:58 am

Zitatmix:

Wer sich an das Absurde gewöhnt, findet sich in unserer Zeit gut zurecht. Am liebsten hätten wir den Kosmos so, dass an jedem Ding dransteht, was es ist, damit man es weiß. Alle 100 Millionen Jahre findet ein Planetentreffen im All statt. Die Venus begrüßt die Erde: “Na, meine Liebe, wie geht es dir denn?” “Leider nicht gut”, antwortet die Erde. “Was hast du denn?”, fragt die Venus. “Menschen”, seufzt die Erde. “Ach, mach dir keine Sorgen, das geht vorbei.“ Wo Sarkasmus nicht mehr weiterhilft, ist es vielleicht Zeit, still zu werden und eine Kerze anzuzünden (solange wir das noch können). Zitatmix Ende.
Unwissen wie zu viel Wissen und v.a. zu wenig Wissen können unseren Planeten schädigen, mit ihm alles Leben, Mensch und Tier. In der Natur schlummern Geheimnisse, nicht jedoch um sie sorglos zu missbrauchen. Unser Planet Erde will weder Pflanzen, noch Tier noch Mensch, wir aber wollen ihn so wie er einmal war, sauber, gesund und wunderbar. Kein Planet ist Eigentum von wenigen Menschen, er gehört uns allen und daher sind wir alle verantwortlich.

Müller

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 29, 2009 at 1:28 am

In his study from August 2009, astrophysicist Dr. Rainer Plaga suggests possibilities to mitigate not less than global risks to anybody who plans to run the LHC. He also makes clear that these suggestions would not exclude (!) the risks but diminish:

Though starting with an understatement (”Increase of collision energy by reasonably small factors (say, 2)” - this would be only very few steps away from highest energies), the other suggestions are very concrete:

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Here I just put up for further discussion three feasible measures for risk mitigation, at least in the
start up phase of LHC:

1. Increase of collision energy by reasonably small factors (say, 2) in one step
and proceed to higher energies only after excluding any indication for potentially
dangerous processes. Currently it is planned to perform the first production
runs at LHC at an energy more than five times higher than previously
reached[35] *14 . This might result in the copious production of completely novel
states, which production was exponentially suppressed at the previous energies.
“Proceeding in small steps” mitigates this risk.

(*14 Due to technical problems, very recently a reduction of this value to 3.5 times
higher has been decided[7].)

2. No operation in which no or only a very tiny fraction of events are analysed.
Currently it is planned to eventually record and analyse only a fraction of 10^-7
of all events[40]. This is the equivalent of entering new territory and to be on
the lookout only for the interesting but not the potentially dangerous.

3. Safety considerations influence the trigger and operational procedures. Meta
stable black holes might not yield very spectacular events, but it seems desirable
to ensure that their presence is immediately and reliably detected. An
immediate interruption of operation and detailed off-line study of the event
might be a possible risk-mitigating measure.

Measures 1. only reduces the risk if measure 3. is also taken.
To take such safety measures would not exclude but reduce any remaining
risk. Methodologically similar measures have been taken in other areas of fundamental
research under analogous circumstances, e.g. in biotechnology[4].

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0808/0808.1415v3.pdf

Comment from em
Time October 27, 2009 at 11:08 pm

20 minuten ONLINE:

Akt. 27.10.09;

Cern: LHC wieder aktiv

In aller Stille hat das Cern letzten Freitag mit ersten Tests im Teilchenbeschleuniger LHC begonnen. Ursprünglich hätten diese im August stattfinden sollen, konnten wegen Va­­kuumlecks jedoch nicht durchgeführt werden.

Geplant ist nun, Mitte November den Strahl einzuleiten und zum Jahreswechsel mit den Experimenten zu beginnen. Dann wäre man wieder auf dem gleichen Stand wie Anfang September 2008, als das Cern den LHC in Betrieb nahm. Nach nur zehn Betriebstagen musste er damals jedoch wegen einer Panne im Kühlsystem wieder abgeschaltet werden. Mit dem LHC werden auch die Kritiker wieder aktiv, die diesen für hochgefährlich halten: Die Wissenschafter-Vereinigung LHC-Kritik plant, bei den Vereinten Nationen eine Menschenrechtsklage einzureichen, worin sie eine externe Risikoprüfung fordert.

link:

http://www.20min.ch/news/schweiz/story/Cern–LHC-wieder-aktiv-21685436

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 26, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Advance Notice ‘LHC Critique’:

CERN announces new low energy test beams at the LHC.
Human rights complaint will be filed at the United Nations in Geneva.

After a year of repairs and redesign of some LHC safety systems due to a massive equipment failure, the LHC is on track to inject circulating beams in November. Beam collisions might start this December. With no advance announcement of the tests unlike last year’s fanfare, CERN’s new low profile demonstrates more care and caution at least when it comes to media fallout. CERN’s official announcement today:
http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2009/091026.html

LHC critics announce a new complaint will be filed soon at the United Nations to stop the LHC until proven safe.

A comprehensive and detailed new human rights complaint to the UN at Geneva, worked out by well-known international critics and specialists, relying upon the work of specialists in black holes and cosmic rays, particle physics and risk researchers and several independent international lawyers and experts in international law, will be published soon. The UN-communication clearly demonstrates weaknesses in CERN safety assessments and concrete dangers arising from the planned high-energy experiments at the LHC, namely extreme artificial states of matter (micro black holes, strangelets and other theoretically catastrophic collider products).

The complaint demands an external risk evaluation and study of the latest relevant cosmic ray and other empirical data that bears upon LHC safety considerations. The legal aspects are focused on the special responsibility of Switzerland and France (by territory principle and CERN-council membership) and the other CERN member states not having insured LHC safety. This complaint is supported by a wide group of international critics of the planned “big bang experiment”. Another press release will follow when published.

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 26, 2009 at 3:48 am

Long term poll result:

BBC Horizon

Switching on the LHC

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will re-create the conditions present just after the big bang. Some scientists argue that during a ten year spell of operation there is a 1 in 50,000,000 chance that experiments ike the LHC could cause a catastrophe of epic proportions.

Either a Black Hole or a new type of matter known as ‘strangelets’ could form, destroying the planet. Or possibly the fabric of space could be ripped apart producing a truly cosmic cataclysm.

Given these odds do you think the LHC should be put on?

Is it worth the risk?

We should switch the LHC on:
34,2 %

We shouldn’t switch the LHC on:
65,8 %

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/universe/vote/

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 24, 2009 at 1:10 pm

Friday October 23, 2009

Large Hadron Collider Hits Operational Temperatures

Get ready to duck (again). The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, has now reached an operating temperature of 1.9K–colder than outer space itself, according to Ars Technica.
That means the LHC will soon be ready to begin crashing particles together, after a catastrophic failure and series of repairs over the past year took the accelerator out of commission.

The current prognosis is that the LHC will begin operations sometime in the next five weeks.
[…]

http://www.gearlog.com/2009/10/large_hadron_collider_hits_ope.php#

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ars technica:

LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks

With new safety measures in place, the staff at CERN has brought the Large Hadron Collider down to a temperature that’s cooler than outer space, and is preparing to make a second try at producing the machine’s first collisions. Some of those collisions may produce elusive Higgs Bosons—or something completely unexpected.

By John Timmer | Last updated October 20, 2009 3:09 PM CT

[…]
All of this means that when something goes wrong—even something small—there’s a very real chance that it will go wrong in a big way. That seems to have been what happened in last year’s failure, which was triggered by a major leak in the liquid helium coolant.
[…]

Once beams start running through the collider again, the idea is to run the LHC over the winter at half its rated power before bringing the collision energy up to its full 14 tera electron volts (TeV) sometime next spring. At that point, we should see… well, we’re not entirely sure what. That’s not to say that we have no idea what will happen; rather, there are a range of possibilities, some of which may be out of reach of the energies created by the LHC.

That point is worth elaborating on. Based on what we already know about the Universe, it’s possible to create models that include things like the Higgs Boson (which conveys mass) and exotic dark matter particles. However, it’s possible to have a number of models—in some cases, several entire classes of models—that are consistent with the data we have in hand. Some of these predict that it will take less than 14TeV to produce a Higgs Boson, others don’t; a similar thing applies to dark matter.

So it’s entirely possible that the Higgs will continue to elude us even after the LHC reaches its full potential. But that will also mean that, by failing to find it at 14TeV, we’ve eliminated a significant number of potential models, allowing physicists to focus in on the remainder. The flipside to not really knowing what we’ll see is that reality may always surprise us with something either considered low probability—quantum black holes, anyone?—or something entirely unexpected.

Of course, all of this assumes that reality won’t keep ensuring that the LHC breaks down, a prospect recently considered in The New York Times. Continued failures of the LHC may also constrain various models of reality, but only if we can accurately calculate the probability at which 27 kilometers worth of one-of-a-kind hardware will fail.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/10/final-lhc-segment-reaches-operational-temperature-at-19k.ars

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(Thanks to Jim for providing the link.)

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 24, 2009 at 3:35 am

Achtung strangelet!

Ein strangelt ist eine theoretisch plausible stabile Materieform, die sich aus einer ausreichenden Zahl von strange quarks zusammensetzt. Einige Forscher nehmen an, dass ein strangelet bereits bei einer Anzahl von etwa 1000 strange quarks stabil bleiben könnte. Ein strangelet könnte strange quarks anderer Materie freisetzen und dadurch in schwer vorhersehbarer Geschwindigkeit unaufhaltsam wachsen.

Nun entdecken Forscher am DESY, dass stranke quarks schon bei viel niedrigeren Energien als erwartet zu Hauf entstehen, was mit keiner Vorhersage übereinstimmt!

“Deshalb sollte die Theorie zur Produktion von Seltsamkeit tragenden Teilchen in Schwerionen-Kollisionen nach Ansicht der Physiker noch einmal überarbeitet werden.”

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Seltsame Xi-Teilchen überraschen Forscher

Erstmals Xi-Teilchen in Kollisionen von Atomkernen bei geringen Energien gefunden

Das Teilchen Xi ist seltsam, selten und schwer. Es existiert überhaupt nur für einen sehr kurzen Augenblick und auch nur, wenn schwere Atomkerne aufeinander prallen. Physiker haben nun erstmals die ungewöhnlichen Xi-Teilchen in Kollisionen von Atomkernen bei vergleichsweise geringen Energien gefunden. Abweichend von theoretischen Vorhersagen bildeten sich zudem mehr der Teilchen als erwartet, berichten die Forscher in der Fachzeitschrift „Physical Review Letters“.

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Mehr Xi-Teilchen als gedacht

Besteht ein Teilchen auch aus den so genannten Strange-Quarks, so sprechen die Kernphysiker von einem seltsamen Teilchen. Das Xi-Teilchen ist gleich doppelt seltsam, enthält es doch zwei Strange-Quarks. Für die mit dem HADES-Detektor aufgespürten Xi-Teilchen fanden die Physiker vom Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf nun heraus, dass ihre Entstehung stark von den theoretischen Vorhersagen abweicht.

So bilden sie sich schon bei vergleichsweise geringen Energien, bei denen mehrere Kernbausteine ihre Bewegungsenergie kooperativ zusammenlegen müssen, um solcherart massive und neue Teilchen erzeugen zu können. Dabei entstehen zudem aufgrund noch ungeklärter Mechanismen mehr von den seltenen Xi-Teilchen als mit vorhandenen theoretischen Modellen berechnet werden. Gerade bei Stößen von schweren Ionen bei geringen Energien, so die Forscher, stimmen somit die theoretischen Vorhersagen über die Xi-Erzeugung nicht mit den Resultaten der Experimente überein.

700 Millionen Kollisionen

Bei rund 700 Millionen Kollisionen an einem großen Teilchenbeschleuniger am GSI identifizierten die Wissenschaftler insgesamt 140 Xi-Teilchen. Das klingt wenig, liegt aber um eine ganze Größenordnung über den Prognosen. Deshalb sollte die Theorie zur Produktion von Seltsamkeit tragenden Teilchen in Schwerionen-Kollisionen nach Ansicht der Physiker noch einmal überarbeitet werden.
[…]
Evolution der Materie im Urknall nachstellen

Durch Kernstöße verdichtete Kernmaterie wird unter anderem untersucht, um im Labor frühe Evolutionsphasen der Materie im Urknall und die anschließende Bildung der chemischen Elemente nachzustellen. Seltene seltsame Teilchen sind sensible Indikatoren für diese Prozesse.

Hochkomprimierte Kernmaterie befindet sich auch heute noch im Inneren von Neutronensternen, die neben den Schwarzen Löchern die dichtesten Materiekonzentrationen im Universum darstellen.

http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-10690-2009-10-22.html

Comment from Ein entsetzter Bürger
Time October 23, 2009 at 11:18 pm

“Mückenenergie”!!

Ein 30m tiefes Loch in einen Kupferblock schlagen oder 500 kg Kupfer schmelzen - oder 150 km/h mit der Eisenbahn unterwegs sein: Dies ist die Energie der aufeinander zujagenden Porotonbeams. Bei so einer Mückenenergie ist ja noch nie etwas passiert! Vor allem nicht, wenn sie sich auf haaresbreite konzentriert!

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 23, 2009 at 11:07 pm

LHC-Experiment harmloser als Urknall:

Feullieton-Artikel aus “DIE ZEIT”, Nr. 44, S. 54 u. 55, 22. Okt. 2009:

Ist Gott Mathematiker?

Die größte Maschine der Welt wurde auch
bloß von Menschen erbaut. Doch dieser Teilchenbeschleuniger
ist abgründiges Teufelswerk und schöpferische Wundertat.

Rolf Landua, Fachmann für Antimaterie, hilft uns bei dem
Versuch, das Ding zu verstehen

VON ERWIN KOCH.

“Der LHC ist im Grunde eine Maschine, die auf kleinstem Raum hohe
Energie konzentriert.”

Urknallmäßig?

“Wenn Sie so wollen - allerdings unendliche viele
Male geringer und harmloser.”
…
“… die Gesamtenergie … würde ausreichen, fast 500 Kilo Kupfer
zu schmelzen.”
…

——
Dank an Rudolf!

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 23, 2009 at 11:04 pm

Soziologe sieht CERN und kommentiert:

“Das CERN veranstaltet seine Experimente,
deren Ausgang völlig offen ist, ohne jede öffentliche Kontrolle.
Dazu ist es durch den Vertrag von 1955 ausdrücklich berechtigt.
Die Wissenschaftler des CERN stehen auf dem Standpunkt,
dass der Öffentlichkeit eine Einmischung nicht zusteht,
weil sie nicht über die physikalischen und mathematischen
Kenntnisse verfüge, die notwendig wären,
das Gefahrenpotential der Versuche am Teilchenbeschleuniger
zu beurteilen. Die Bevölkerung soll es hinnehmen,
dass CERN entscheidet, welches Risiko zu tragen sie bereit sein muss.
Bei einer anderen Wissenschaft, vor deren
Ergebnissen sich Menschen mit und ohne
Fachkenntnisse ängstigen, gibt es jedoch durchaus
staatliche Beschränkungen.
Was man in der Gentechnologie darf und was nicht, bestimmen
in Deutschland und anderen Ländern Gesetze.
Ein Nationaler Ethikrat versucht, die Interessen von
Wissenschaflern und Bürgern
auszutarieren und eine öffentliche Diskussion
über Vorzüge und Gefahren der Genforschung in Gang zu halten.
Bei den Experimenten des CERN dagegen fehlen solche staatlichen
Rahmensetzungen.
Eine öffentliche Debatte findet nur in den
Hinterhöfen von Internet-Blogs statt. …”

“Aus dem Nachwort des Autors Wolfgang Zöllner zu seinem Roman “Atlas
ohne Schweiz”, Grimma 2009.”

———-

Mit Dank an Rudolf

www.blackhole.wolfgangzoellner.de

Bestellmöglichkeit:
http://www.winterwork.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=129

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 22, 2009 at 11:23 pm

LHC cooled to operational temperatures

All sectors of the world’s largest particle accelerator have now been cooled to operational temperatures of approximately -271°C.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said on Friday that the final sector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had reached 1.9K.

In a bulletin on Friday, Cern called this “an important step towards the final commissioning of the machine”.

The LHC had to be decommissioned last September, after a fault in a copper splice in the machine led to an explosion. Cern said on Friday that splice resistance measurements had been taken in three of the LHC’s eight sectors, and had all showed normal values. Tests on the remaining five sectors are taking place, and are expected to be completed by the end of October.
[…]
At present, the three sectors have magnets powered at 2kA. Over the coming weeks, magnets in all eight sectors in the 27km LHC ring will gradually have current put through them, up to 6kA. This is the amount of energy needed to guide beams with a nominal energy of 3.5 TeV, or half the power envisaged for the LHC experiment, said the Cern bulletin.

Cern told ZDNet UK at the beginning of October that the LHC would probably be colliding beams by mid-November.
[…]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39817123,00.htm?s_cid=259

Comment from em
Time October 22, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Shortnews, 22.10.09 20:48 Uhr :

Schwere seltsame Elementarteilchen entstehen viel häufiger als erwartet

Physiker des Forschungszentrums Dresden-Rossendorf haben entdeckt, dass die Entstehung bestimmter seltsamer Elementarteilchen (Xi-Teilchen) stark von den theoretischen Vorhersagen abweicht. Sofern in diesen Teilchen ein Strange-Quark enthalten ist, wird es als “seltsam” bezeichnet.

Auch existieren diese Teilchen nur für den Bruchteil einer Sekunde. Bei Experimenten am Hades Detektor am GSI-Helmholtzzentrum in Darmstadt wurde festgestellt, dass viel mehr Xi-Teilchen entstanden, als erwartet wurde. Bei 700 Mio. Zusammenstößen von schweren Ionen wurden 140 Xi-Teilchen gemessen.

Man erklärt die um Größenordnungen höhere Anzahl der Xi-Teilchen damit, dass diese schon bei geringeren Energien erzeugt werden, als bisher mittels theoretischer Modelle kalkuliert wurde. Nun müssen die Physiker die Theorien zur Entstehung von Teilchen mit Strange-Quarks überarbeiten.

link:

http://www.shortnews.de/start.cfm?id=795111

Comment from em
Time October 22, 2009 at 11:54 am

ARTIKEL aus ‘computerworld’: Forschung & Innovation: ETH kooperiert mit SAP
21.10.2009 | 13:51 Uhr

Das Jahresbudget der ETH Zürich beläuft sich auf 1,25 Milliarden Franken, 250 Millionen spülen Drittmittel in die Kassen der Schweizer Spitzenuniversität. “Wir sind auf die Zusammenarbeit mit Firmen angewiesen”, betont ETH-Vizepräsident Professor Roman Boutellier auf einem Pressebriefing in Zürich. Wir ermuntern unsere Professoren zu Gedankenexperimenten, denn die seien billig, scherzt Boullier. Ein einziges Experiment am Cern in Genf dagegen schlage mit zehn Millionen Franken zu Buche. (…)

link:
http://www.computerworld.ch/aktuell/news/49491/

Comment from em
Time October 20, 2009 at 12:08 am

Tagesschau vom 19.10.2009:

Der Fluch der Bosonen

Das Kernforschungszentrum in Genf (CERN) hat für so manchen die Aura des Unheimlichen, Gefährlichen, ja Dämonischen: Hier wurde das WWW erfunden, hier klauen im Sakral-Thriller “Illuminati” von Dan Brown die Bösewichter eine Flasche voll Antimaterie, hier wurde gerade erst ein Wissenschaftler entlarvt, der dem Terrornetzwerk Al Kaida nahe steht - und genau in dieser Institution soll der Large Hadron Collider (LHC) nun die ersten Momente nach dem Urknall nachstellen.

Bitte keine Löcher in das Universum machen!

Das mehrere Milliarden Euro teure Experiment soll zu einem besseren Verständnis der Teilchen beitragen, aus denen unser Universum besteht. Insbesondere das bisher seit Jahrzehnten erfolglos gesuchte Higgs-Boson hofft man so zu finden. Ängstliche Zeitgenossen mahnen jedoch schon lange, dass die größte Forschungsmaschine der Welt selbige zerstören könne, indem sie ein schwarzes Loch erzeugt.

“Ich komme aus der Zukunft …”

Zwei Wissenschaftler renommierter Institutionen, Holger Bech Nielsen vom Niels-Bohr-Institut in Kopenhagen und Masao Ninomiya vom Institut für theoretische Physik in Kyoto, sehen jedoch noch eine andere Gefahr - nur welche, das wissen sie selbst nicht so genau. Nur eines glauben sie: Sie muss so groß sein, dass die Higgs-Bosonen von der Zukunft aus selbst einschreiten, um ihre eigene Produktion rückwirkend zu verhindern.

Die geheimnisvollen Elementarteilchen seien in der Lage, in der Vergangenheit quasi konzentrierte Pech-Felder zu erzeugen, so die Hypothese der Physiker. Sie sehen sich unter anderem dadurch bestätigt, dass sämtliche Versuche der Higgs-Bosonen-Forschung bisher fehlschlugen: So scheiterte die Fertigstellung des Superconducting Super Colliders in Texas an Budgetkürzungen. Der LHC in Genf selbst steht aufgrund von Pannen seit Monaten still.

Pokern um die Zukunft der Welt

Um ihre Pech-Theorie zu untermauern, schlagen Nielsen und Ninomiya nun ein Experiment vor. Sie wollen mehr als eine Million Spielkarten mischen, von denen eine einzige die Aufforderung trägt, das LHC-Experiment zu stoppen - eine Win-Win-Situation, wie die Forscher meinen: Wenn eine “Weitermachen”-Karte gezogen wird, würde alles so weiter laufen wie geplant. Wird dagegen die einzige Stopp-Karte zufällig ausgewählt, wäre das ein deutliches Indiz dafür, dass die Higgs-Bosonen in Ruhe gelassen werden wollen und das Experiment damit ohnehin sinnlos wäre.
(…)

link:

http://www.tagesschau.de/schlusslicht/higgsboson100.html

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 19, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Heute: 20:05 - 21:00, n-tv:

National Geograpghic: Der größte Atombeschleuniger der Welt

(letzte Bauphase, Stellungnahmen von CERN-Mitarbeitern)

http://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/tvprogramm/
——–

Heute ab 20:15, 3-Sat Themenabend:

20:15:
Die Entstehung des Kosmos
Film von Gabi Schlag

Existierte das Universum schon immer? Oder ist es irgendwann entstanden? Und wenn es irgendwann entstanden ist, was war dann davor? Gibt es noch andere Universen? Menschheitsfragen, die noch immer ohne abschließende Antwort bleiben. Zumindest sind sich heute fast alle Wissenschaftler der Welt einig,dass das Universum mit dem sogenannten Urknall entstanden ist. Damit ist auch klar, dass sich das gesamte Weltall ausdehnt - wie ein Luftballon, der aufgeblasen wird. Reinhard Genzel vom Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik in Garching reicht das nicht aus: “Wir kennen zwar die Zusammensetzung des Universums, aber eigentlich wissen wir nichts. Alles,was wir haben, sind Hilfskonstruktionen, Erklärmodelle, die vielleicht gar nicht zutreffen.” Ist also mit diesem Standardmodell die Entstehung des Kosmos nicht hinreichend erklärt? […]

21:00 - 21:30 Uhr

Dokumentationnano extra: Mensch im All
Film von Malte Linde

Der Aufbruch ins All ist eine der letzten Möglichkeiten für den Menschen, neue Räume zu entdecken und zu erschließen und damit zugleich ein Sinnbild für den menschlichen Wissensdrang. Raum, Zeit, Schwarze Materie und Dunkle Löcher werfen Fragen auf, bei denen die Physik schnell an ihre Grenzen stößt. Dem Traum von der Entdeckung folgt der Traum der Besiedlung des Weltraums. Wird der Mensch einst beispielsweise auf dem Mond wohnen? Solche Visionen eröffnen nicht nur neue Perspektiven außerhalb unseres Planeten, sondern lenken den Blick zurück auf die Erde. Die erscheint aus dem All betrachtet nicht nur zerbrechlicher und kleiner, sondern auch als ein Ganzes ohne Ländergrenzen,ohne Glaubensdifferenzen. Kann der Blick aus dem All den Menschen lehren, mit dem Planeten Erde verantwortungsbewusster umzugehen?

“nano extra: Mensch im All” spricht mit Astronomen, Psychologen und Philosophen über die Sehnsucht der Forscher nach dem Unbekannten.

21:30 - 22:00 Uhr

Dokumentation hitec: Bomben aus dem All
- Kosmische Strahlung
Film von Michael Hänel

Kosmische Strahlung ist unser ständiger Begleiter. Erst seit 100 Jahren weiß der Mensch um ihre Existenz. Noch ahnen wir nur, was diese Partikel beim Zusammenprall mit der Erde anrichten. Ganz sicher sind sie ein wichtiger Antrieb der Evolution, sicher auch eine Gefahr für unser Erbgut. Die “Bomben aus dem All” legen außerdem Stromnetze lahm, sind eine Gefahr für die Luftfahrt und bedrohen die Elektronik von Satelliten.
Jetzt tritt eine ganze Heerschar von Wissenschaftlern an, das Rätsel der kosmischen Strahlung zu lösen. Wie ein Puzzle setzen sie ihr Wissen zusammen, beobachten das Universum und wollen dabei existenzielle Fragen klären: Woher kommt das Leben? Wie entstand das Universum? Was geschieht mit uns im Strom kosmischer Teilchen? Im argentinischen Malargue versuchen Wissenschaftler jetzt, die genaue Herkunft hochenergetischer kosmischer Strahlung zu ergründen. Der deutsche Physiker Johannes Blümer vom Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe hat über Jahre ein großes Experiment in der argentinischen Pampa mit aufgebaut: “Kosmische Strahlung erlebt derzeit einen Boom in der physikalischen Forschung. Früher hat man mit Teleskopen ins All hinein geschaut. Heute nehmen wir die gesamte Erdatmosphäre als Teilchendetektor, quasi als Teleskop. Wir versuchen derzeit herauszufinden,wo die kosmischen Teilchen mit der größten Energie herkommen. 2005 haben wir angefangen, tappten im Dunklen. Heute wissen wir, welchen Bereich des Himmels wir genauer ansehen müssen.” Die “hitec”-Dokumentation “Bomben aus dem All” von Michael Hänel berichtet über einen jungen Forschungszweig, in dem Astronomie, Meteorologie und Klimaforschung immer mehr verschmelzen.

Wiederholung “hitec: Bomben aus dem All
- Kosmische Strahlung”: 2:20

http://www.3sat.de/dynamic/sitegen/bin/sitegen.php?source=/specials/sendungen_az/134166/index.html

Comment from em
Time October 19, 2009 at 9:41 am

Shortnews, 19.10.09 um 08:52:

El-Kaida plante möglicherweise Attentat auf die Urknall-Maschine

Die Festnahme eines CERN-Physikers als mutmaßlicher Terrorist des El-Kaida Netzwerks gibt weiterhin Rätsel auf. Vermutungen zufolge könnte die Urknall-Maschine das Ziel des Anschlags gewesen sein.

So gibt es bei nötigem Fachwissen zwei Stellen, die den großen Teilchenbeschleuniger verletzlich machen. Dies könnten zum einen das empfindliche Kühlsystem ein, wo eine gezielte Sprengladung einen immensen Sachschaden hervorrufen würde.

Der andere, weitaus gravierendere Schwachpunkt betrifft die Steuerung des Protonenstroms. Eine gezielte Überhöhung dieses Stroms für wenige Sekunden könnte unvorhersehbare Folgen bis hin zur Entstehung eines schwarzen Lochs haben.

link:
http://www.shortnews.de/start.cfm?id=794191

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 19, 2009 at 1:19 am

Interesting critical website:

http://www.sanescience.org/

Comment from Ivan Gorelik
Time October 16, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Dear people!

Your life, your children’s lives are in your hands.

Humans, like a herd of obedient sheep, are lead to the last abyss. I, as a mortally frightened lamb, run from side to side of the herd, but the herd do not hear me. They laugh at me and moves slowly, plucking the juicy grass.

People, please, wake up! Open your eyes!

November the 30-th, according to the preliminary plan for the Large Hadron Collider, the collision of protons with energies of 0.45 TeV will be implemented, 14 December - collision with energies of 3.5 TeV. If the magnetic collapse starts, it will be impossible to stop it. It will end with ejection of the Earth’s shell into space.

I give the following probabilities:
10% that magnetic collapse will start at 0.45 TeV;
50% at 3.5 TeV;
70% at 7 TeV.
30% I leave to my mistake.

In order to save your lives you must plead your presidents to barn the high-energy experiments in physics.
Here is an Internet address of Russian President http://letters.kremlin.ru/
Can you give me an Internet address of your President?

In order to save your lives you must ask the Head of your country’s Prosecutor’s Office to open the criminal cases against the authors of articles about risk assessment of safety of colliders, because these authors had made there several crude errors, lie and false statements.
Here is an Internet address of Russian Prosecutor’s Office http://www.genproc.gov.ru/ipriem/address/
Can you give me an Internet address of your country’s Prosecutors Office?

Here are the main their errors:
1. Equating of consequences of collider particle collisions with collisions of cosmic and atmospheric particles.
2. The computation of the number of destructed protons by hypothetical magnetic monopole.
3. The silent assumption that magnetic monopole does not grow.

Their crime lie is hidden in the statement that stars and planets do not explode. We can see novae and supernovae. We do not know what happened to Phaeton.
My opponents on this and other forums did not give any solid argument that magnetic hole is impossible. Their arguments were aimed, first of all, at bad hints of my person. But those are not the scientific arguments.

Links:
Two independent coinciding math computations of magnetic hole: http://darkenergy.narod.ru/magtren.html
Not completed list of proving arguments: http://darkenergy.narod.ru/argen.html
List of errors made in the risk assessment of safety of powerful colliders: http://darkenergy.narod.ru/tezeng.html

Comment from em
Time October 16, 2009 at 11:33 am

2009-10-01
17:44

An interesting idea, but…

The idea of causing the consciousness of the entire human race to jump into the future for about two minutes is an amusing one. However, in this case, imagination has nothing to do with what can really happen in our world and, in particular, nothing that can ever be caused by the LHC operation. John Ellis, from the Theory group, explains why.
“I like science fiction; when I was a teenager I had a lot of it and I think that it actually contributed to my decision to eventually become a researcher in science”, says John Ellis, CERN theoretical physicist.

In Robert Sawyer’s book, lead ion collisions at the LHC cause the whole of humankind to experience a flash-forward. However, although the LHC will be the first particle accelerator to collide heavy ions at an unprecedented (for experiments on Earth) energy, Nature does it every day and nothing terrible has ever happened. (…)

Watch the video interview with John Ellis inter alia talking about flies again:

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1209915?ln=de

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 16, 2009 at 3:32 am

German related article, English see further below:

Higgs-Teilchen aus der Zukunft
zerstörten den LHC

Jan Dönges,
Redaktion spektrumdirekt
14.10.2009

[…]
Schuld am Ausfall des Genfer LHC ist nicht eine schlechte Lötstelle, sondern eine Mischung aus Schicksal, theoretischer Physik und handfesten Paradoxien im Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum. Diese Hypothese haben zwei Physiker in mehreren Artikeln auf dem arXiv-Server publiziert.
Im Klartext lautet sie: Die Higgs-Bosonen, die der Beschleuniger dereinst (nicht) produzieren wird, werden immer wieder ihre Herstellung verhindern.

Die Autoren Holger Bech Nielsen vom Niels-Bohr-Institut in Kopenhagen, ein renommierter Mit-Begründer der Stringtheorie, und Masao Ninomiya vom Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics in Kyoto stützen sich dabei nach eigenen Angaben auf “eine Anzahl nicht völlig überzeugender, aber doch recht sinnvoller Annahmen”. Eine davon besagt, dass die Entwicklung des Universums irgendwie von ihrem Ende her bestimmt wird, was sich in mathematischer Hinsicht durch Hinzufügen einer imaginären Komponente zu einer gängigen Gleichung ausdrücken lässt, die praktisch immer den Wert Null annimmt, es sei denn …

http://www.spektrumdirekt.de/artikel/1011014

Comment from em
Time October 15, 2009 at 11:59 am

LHC Update: October 2, 2009
October 2, 2009 | 12:00 pm

Today’s issue of the CERN Bulletin reports more progress in readying the LHC for restart. Six of the Large Hadron Collider’s eight sectors are now at operating temperature (1.9 K), and current is flowing in three sectors’ superconducting magnets. The whole LHC is predicted to be at operating temperatures in two weeks.

The chain of accelerators that leads up to the LHC is ready and performing well, as demonstrated by tests carried out last weekend. Particles were extracted from the SPS, the last accelerator before the LHC, and injected into the transfer lines that link the SPS and LHC. Lead ions have also been accelerated up to the entrance of the LHC for the first time.

Also in this issue of the Bulletin, updates on the status of the four major LHC experiments: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb; visits to the LHC by Steven Hawking and author Bill Bryson; and the results of an impromptu survey on CERN and the LHC in the laboratory’s local community.

Katie Yurkewicz

link:
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/10/02/lhc-update-october-2-2009/

Comment from em
Time October 15, 2009 at 8:32 am

Interpellation
Militärische Forschung am CERN

Einreichungsdatum 28.11.1996 (!)

Eingereichter Text

Das 1989 von Herrn Charpak in Paris gegründete französische Unternehmen Biospace Instruments benutzt die Infrastruktur des Cern für seine Handelstätigkeiten.

Unter dem Deckmantel, für medizinische Zwecke Detektoren für die ultraschnelle Radiographie herzustellen, hat Biospace Instruments diese Technologie an die “Direction des Applications Militaires” (DAM) des “Commissariat à l’énergie atomique” verkauft und damit einen grossen Teil seiner Einkünfte erzielt.

Die im Juli 1995 an das DAM-CEA-Zentrum in Vaujours-Moronvillier (CEVM) gelieferten Geräte wurden aus vom Cern geliehenen Bestandteilen zusammengebaut, getestet, danach vom Cern nach Vaujours transportiert, zurückgesandt und im Cern bis im Frühling 1996 gelagert. Dadurch wurde das Abkommen über die Niederlassung des Cern in der Schweiz verletzt. Die Leitung des Cern wurde wiederholt auf diese Tatsachen aufmerksam gemacht. Sie versichert, dass diese Tätigkeiten eingestellt wurden. Herr Charpak hingegen erklärte in einem Interview im September, dass er seine Forschung im Bereich der ultraschnellen Radiographie im Cern weiterführe.

Zwei junge Forscher, die sich geweigert hatten, mit Herrn Charpak weiter an militärischen Verwendungen zu arbeiten, wurden rücksichtslos von ihren Posten entfernt. Gegen Biospace wurden deshalb an französischen Gerichtshöfen zwei Untersuchungsverfahren eingeleitet.

Welche dringlichen Massnahmen gedenkt der Bundesrat zu treffen, um der militärischen Forschung im Cern ein Ende zu setzen? (…)

link:

http://www.parlament.ch/d/suche/seiten/geschaefte.aspx?gesch_id=19963577

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 14, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Rechtsanwalt Dr. Olaf Möhring - betreffend CERN / LHC:

Beim Bundesverfassungsgericht in Karlsruhe eingereichte Verfassungsbeschwerde in Sachen Schröter gegen die Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Schriftsatz vom 5. Oktober 2009

http://www.achtphasen.net/index.php/boesegutlieb/2009/10/08/title_151

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 13, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Pioneer of string theory Holger Bech Nielsen and Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya speculate about the LHC:

New York Times

Essay
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

SUICIDE MISSION? The core of the superconducting solenoid magnet at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: October 12, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=1

[…]
Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.

According to the so-called Standard Model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass.

“It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”

This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an “anti-miracle.”

Dr. Nielsen admits that he and Dr. Ninomiya’s new theory smacks of time travel, a longtime interest, which has become a respectable research subject in recent years. While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus. In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldn’t be trying to make one.
[…]

(2 pages!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=1

Comment from libertine
Time October 13, 2009 at 5:33 pm

want to come back to a topic I’ve raised before: the quark bomb (see video). I’ve just come across an article which definitely indicates that something like a ”quark broth” can exist. Here’s the article (Feb. 19, 2000):

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_8_157/ai_60115120/

I want to quote the crucial statements of this article and comment on them:

quote: ”Researchers are eager to study properties of the bizarre material, which may also exist inside collapsed stars known as neutron stars.”

comment: Hear ye!

quote: ”CERN investigators smashed lead nuclei flying at nearly light’s speed into other nuclei in fixed targets. The collisions produced fireballs 100,000 times hotter than the sun’s core and 20 times the density of an atom’s nucleus. In such microfurnaces, theorists propose, protons and neutrons may dissolve and momentarily set free a furious swarm, or plasma, of quarks and gluons. Quarks possess a characteristic that physicists call color, which is loosely analogous to electric charge. Under normal conditions the potent color force keeps quarks and gluons tightly confined within the nuclear particles.

Researchers have sought the quark-gluon plasma since at least the mid-1980s (SN: 10/8/88, p. 229). In their Feb. 10 annoucement, the CERN teams reported finding traces perhaps not of the plasma itself-which has a very narrow scientific definition-but of something closely akin to it.”

comment: closely akin ? Maybe you can compare their experiment with an atomic bomb explosion which didn’t reach the critical mass. The chain reaction simply stopped after a few atoms. But now they are going to smash protons at much higher energies together. Will they reach the ”critical mass” NOW ?

quote: ””All that we know is that we have evidence for a state in which quarks and gluons are deconfined,” says Federico Antinori of the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Padova, Italy.”

comment: isn’t this evidence something to worry about ?

in regard to the topic of ”quark-gluon-plasma” here’s another interesting article:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0804/0804.2423v1.pdf

quote: ”Abstract. In recent years, experiments have discovered an exotic new state of matter known as the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP). At present, it seems that standard theoretical tools, such as perturbation theory and lattice gauge theory, are poorly suited to understand this new phase. However, recent progress in superstring theory has provided us with a theoretical laboratory for studying very similar systems of strongly interacting hot non-abelian plasmas. This surprising new perspective extracts the fluid properties of the sQGP from physical processes in a black hole spacetime. Hence we may find the answers to difficult particle physics questions about the sQGP from straightforward calculations in classical general relativity.”

comment: once again we see: experiment first, then comes the theory

”In particular, at low energies or large distances (by the standards of subatomic physics), the coupling of QCD is large and the forces are “strong”, as implied by the original name. This is the origin of confinement, i.e., the fact that we do not see free quarks or gluons in nature but rather we only see “colourless” or QCD-neutral packages known as hadrons. However, at high energies or short distances, the QCD coupling is small and correspondingly the forces are weak. Known as asymptotic freedom, this property allows us to detect the composite structure of hadrons by, e.g., scattering high energy electrons.

[…]

a complete theoretical understanding of confinement remains elusive. In fact, an analytical proof of confinement is now one of the Clay Institute’s “Millennium Problems” for which there is a one-million dollar prize [1].”

comment: a million dollar might tempt a physicist to ”ignore” possible dangers of which he does not know if they really exist or which he doesn’t even consider.

quote: ”In particular, asymptotic freedom indicates interactions are weaker at short distances and high energies and so one might expect to find new behaviour for QCD at high densities and high temperatures.

[…]

Of course, we should also seek an experimental verification of this theoretical picture and this was the goal behind constructing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island [5]. In fact, experiments there have revealed a new phase of hadronic matter called the strongly interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma (sQGP). In this new phase, the quarks and gluons are neither confined nor free but instead, form some kind of strongly interacting “soup” which seems to behave like a near perfect fluid.”

comment: OMG !! Neither confined nor free ! As a physicist I would take this as a warning sign. They were allowed to catch a glimpse of this ”new” kind of QGP which was still ”limited to a fluid” by the energies involved to create it. Before they increase energies now they should think about what happens to this QGP if it is set free into a ”perfect gas”. IMHO this ”threshold” corresponds the critical mass in an atomic bomb.

quote: ”The sQGP is created at RHIC by colliding two gold nuclei at ∼ 200 GeV per nucleon. The collision creates a hot plasma of quarks and gluons which expands outward in a collective flow. The plasma eventually cools down to a temperature where the particles in the plasma are again confined into hadrons which then escape out into the detectors.”

comment: Dear physicists: you should interpret this is a WARNING ! the QCP is confined into hadrons again. Imagine what could happen at higher energies, for example at the collisions in the LHC. The plasma would possibly NOT cool down. Instead it would spread. It could form a ”gas” instead of a ”fluid” and not return into the hadron state. With multiple collisions occuring it would involve further hadronic matter. Finally this may result in a chain reaction of unknown extent. It could either involve just the protons of the beam, parts of the surrounding LHC apparatus or worse: a lot more than that. The released energy would certainly be much higher than the energy released in an atomic bomb. Thus, we would have produced a quark bomb / explosion.

There’s a nice picture to demonstrate what I mean:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Quark_structure_proton.svg/180px-Quark_structure_proton.svg.png

imagine that these ‘’springs” between the quarks could be stretched to a certain point. The quarks would be in a kind of semi-free/confined state in which their charcteristics can be measured. However, if you increase energy the springs will break and the quarks would be set free. A lot of (gluonnic) energy would be released, causing a chain reaction in which surrounding matter would be involved.

just to make sure nobody mistakes the expression ”bomb” as an ”opportunity” in regard to the possibility of the development of a military weapon. In order to use such a quark explosion for a weapon one would have to build an particle accelerator the size of the LHC below the target. Hence the military would not be able to make use of this
”technology”. One bomb would cost about 10 billion dollors or so and I bet
they won’t be able to hide the ”production site”

original article: http://leaksholescatastrophies.blogspot.com/2009/10/critical-mass.html

Comment from em
Time October 13, 2009 at 8:40 am

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:

Collider scientist ‘wants to join al-Qaeda’

Last updated: October 13, 2009

A RENOWNED physicist working on the nuclear Hadron Collider project has been charged with terrorism offences.

Adlene Hicheur, 32, an Algerian national, was arrested last week in France after intelligence agents intercepted alleged contact he made with al-Qaeda over the internet.

His brother was also arrested, the Times reports, but has since been released.

A Paris judge was told by investigators that Dr Hicheur had offered to work with al-Qaeda.

The physicist, who works at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), allegedly told the terror group that “he was interested in committing an attack”.

According to the Times, he has since acknowledged contacting the militant organisation.

Dr Hicheur is one of 7000 scientists working on the controversial Hadron Collider project.

The Collider is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, using highly advanced nuclear technology.

But the Collider sparked fears in some areas of the public that the project is not properly handled, could “produce a doomsday phenomena”. The project is currently suspended for repairs.

A Cern spokesman said Dr Hicheur did not have access to any of the underground facilities and that he did not handle anything that would interest terrorists.

Judge Christophe Teissier ordered Dr Hicheur be detained while authorities investigate “the possible offence of association with criminals in relation with a terrorist enterprise”.

The arrest, according some within France, raises the possibility that Islamist militants could be seeking nuclear weapons technology.

Residents in Dr Hicheur’s home town of Vienne, in eastern France, said his success had made him a role model for young Muslims. “They are good boys,” said a neighbour.

”They are from a family of six children and from a very moderate Muslim family which is seen as a model of integration.”

According to the Times, Dr Hicheur worked for the British government’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 2005 and was placed under surveillance by French officers last year after American intelligence services intercepted Internet messages.

link:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/collider-scientist-wants-to-join-al-qaeda/story-e6frev00-1225786139469

Comment from em
Time October 13, 2009 at 8:35 am

VIDEOBERICHT des Schweizer Fernsehens zum ‘Terrorverdacht am CERN’

Montag, 12. Oktober 2009, 19:33 Uhr, Aktualisiert 23:56 Uhr

Lehrauftrag bei der ETH

Der Beschuldigte hatte auch einen Lehrauftrag an der ETH Lausanne, wie ETH-Sprecher Jérome Grosse bestätigte. Er habe Unterreicht in experimenteller Physik erteilt. (…)

link:

http://tagesschau.sf.tv/supplynet/companies/sf/eigene_objekte/sf_tagesschau/nachrichten/archiv/2009/10/12/schweiz/verfahren_gegen_cern_physiker_eingeleitet

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 13, 2009 at 3:39 am

Cern-Physiker unter Terror-Verdacht festgenommen
11.10.2009 | 20:41 | (DiePresse.com)

Der Physiker algerischer Abstammung soll in E-Mail-Kontakt mit al-Qaida gewesen sein. Konkrete Anschlagspläne gab es nicht. Cern ist der größte Teilchenbeschleuniger der Welt.

Ein wegen Terror-Verdachts festgenommener Physiker, der beim Cern-Atomlabor beschäftigt war, hat nach Informationen aus französischen Justizkreisen Internet-Kontakte zu einem Verbindungsmann von al-Qaida in Nordafrika zugegeben. In E-Mails seien vage gehaltene Pläne für Terroranschläge erörtert worden, sagte eine Gewährsperson am Sonntag. Konkrete Planungen habe es aber nicht gegeben, teilte der Informant mit, der unter Hinweis auf die noch laufenden Ermittlungen anonym bleiben wollte.

Der 32-jährige französische Wissenschafter algerischer Herkunft war am Donnerstag von der französischen Polizei in Vienne, einer Stadt 30 Kilometer südlich von Lyon, festgenommen worden. Der Physiker soll beim Teilchenbeschleuniger des Europäischen Kernforschungszentrums (CERN) in der Schweiz an Analyseprojekten gearbeitet haben. Ein 25 Jahre alter Bruder des Mannes, der ebenfalls am Donnerstag festgenommen wurde, ist den Angaben zufolge inzwischen wieder auf freiem Fuß.

Cern betreibt bei Genf den größten Teilchenbeschleuniger der Welt. Die Forscher erhoffen sich von der Urknall-Anlage in einem 27 Kilometer langen Tunnel Antworten auf grundlegende Fragen nach Entstehung und Aufbau des Universums.

(Ag.)

http://diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/514350/index.do?from=suche.intern.portal

Comment from Wolfgang Zöllner
Time October 10, 2009 at 6:12 pm

Hallo,

ich habe einen Thriller zum CERN Experiment ATLAS geschrieben.
Mein Roman “Atlas ohne Schweiz” ist im September in der Edition Winterwork auf Deutsch erschienen und hat 358 spannende Seiten.
Näheres kann man auf meiner Homepage erfahren:
www.blackhole.wolfgangzoellner.de

Bestellmöglichkeiten:
www.amazon.de/Atlas-ohne-Schweiz-Wolfgang-Zöllner/dp/3940167959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255183671&sr=1-1

oder

http://www.winterwork.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=129

Obwohl mein Roman Sciencefiction ist, bin ich ziemlich nah dran am aktuellen Geschehen. Z.B. habe ich vorausgesagt, dass Al Kaida Interesse an CERN hat und dort Leute einschleust.

Es wäre schön, wenn Sie auf der lhc-concern Homepage auf meinen Thriller hinweisen könnten. Worum geht es:

Im französisch-schweizerischen Grenzgebiet bei Genf steht die größte und teuerste Maschine, die je von Menschenhand gebaut wurde, der Teilchenbeschleuniger LHC. Dort erforschen Wissenschaftler des europäischen Kernforschungszentrums CERN, wie die Materie nach dem Urknall entstand. Werden die Experimente des CERN die Physik revolutionieren, oder werden sie die Erde in einen Abgrund stürzen?

Kommissar Philippe Leblanc von der Genfer Kripo soll das herausfinden. Kann er die Welt vor einer Katastrophe bewahren?

Lesen Sie den Debüt-Roman von Wolfgang Zöllner, solange die Versuche am LHC noch nicht in ihre entscheidende Phase getreten sind und hoffen Sie, dass das, was Sie hier lesen, bloß ein Science-Fiction-Roman ist!

Der Autor Wolfgang Zöllner ist Soziologe und war in der Informationstechnologie tätig. Im Ruhestand schreibt er Romane zu aktuellen Themen.

Viele Grüße

Wolfgang Zöllner, Erkrath, Deutschland

Comment from Admin LHC-Kritik
Time October 9, 2009 at 9:27 pm

Current news - strange story:

“Telegraph”:

Al-Qaeda suspect was Cern nuclear researcher plotting attacks on France

A “high level” al-Qaeda suspect who provided data on terror targets in France and expressed a “desire to carry out an attack” was yesterday revealed to work at Cern, the world’s largest nuclear research facility.
[…]
The nuclear research body insisted he “was not a Cern employee” and that “his work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism.
[…]

By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 7:13PM BST 09 Oct 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6284816/Al-Qaeda-suspect-was-Cern-nuclear-researcher-plotting-attacks-on-France.html

Comment from em
Time October 9, 2009 at 7:49 pm

“Kleine Zeitung”

Zuletzt aktualisiert: 09.10.2009 um 19:04 Uhr

Festnahme bei CERN-Atomlabor wegen Terrorverdachts

Beim Teilchenbeschleuniger des Europäischen Kernforschungszentrums (CERN) ist ein Physiker unter Terrorverdacht festgenommen worden. Der Mann wurde am Donnerstag von der französischen Polizei festgenommen. Es handelt sich den Angaben zufolge um den Mitarbeiter einer Fremdfirma, der möglicherweise Verbindungen zu Terrororganisationen in Algerien habe.

Der Mann habe seit 2003 für CERN gearbeitet, sein Gebiet habe aber keinen militärischen Bezug. Die Polizei hatte den mutmaßlich radikal-islamischen Franzosen und seinen 25 Jahre alten Bruder am Donnerstag nach monatelangen Ermittlungen in der Nähe von Lyon festgenommen. Er habe einen Anschlag verüben wollen, ohne aber tatsächlich schon etwas vorbereitet zu haben, sagten französische Justizbeamte in Paris am Freitag.

CERN versicherte, dass der Mann keinerlei Kontakt mit Material gehabt, das für terroristische Anschläge genutzt werden könnte. (…)

Quelle: APA

link:
http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/2160695/festnahme-bei-cern-atomlabor-terrorverdachts.story

Siehe auch Reuters, SF Tagesschau, ORF, 20minuten und andere.