www.lhc-concern.info | Forderung nach einem Moratorium bzgl. der CERN-Experimente | Call for a Moratorium on CERN Large Hadron Collider Operations

Am 10. September 2008 wird die Welt nicht untergehen. Allerdings soll die Beschleunigerröhre mit dem Protonenstrahl beschickt werden. In dem experimentellen kernphysikalischen Reaktor LHC sollen die Energien im Laufe von mehreren Wochen schrittweise erhöht werden und noch in den folgenden Monaten die bisher an anderen Beschleunigeranlagen erreichten Kollisionsenergien um mehr als das Doppelte übertreffen. Die Ergebnisse können erst zwei Jahre später ausgewertet werden. Außerdem ist das System auf die Filterung von erwarteten Ereignissen hin ausgelegt.

In Anbetracht der zahlreichen offenen wissenschaftlichen Fragen zu möglicherweise globalen Risiken appelieren wir an die verantwortlichen Politiker der 20 Europäischen Betreiberstaaten, sowie an die Europäische Kommission und an das Nobelpreiskomitee, von der Eröffnung bis auf weiteres dringend abzuraten bzw. diese bis auf weiteres zu unterbinden und appelieren insbesondere an CERN, seinerseits bis zur seriösen wissenschaftlichen Klärung dieser Fragen ein Moratorium zu setzen.

Diese 20 CERN-Mitgliedsstaaten sind:

Schweiz, Frankreich, Belgien, Bulgarien, Dänemark, Deutschland, Finnland, Griechenland, Großbritannien, Italien, Niederlande, Norwegen, Österreich, Polen, Portugal, Slowakei, Spanien, Schweden, Tschechische Republik und Ungarn.

Besondere Verantwortung kommt dabei der Schweiz und Frankreich zu, auf deren beider Territorien die Anlage sich befindet und die den LHC auch mit Energie versorgen.

Schreiben Sie eine Mail an Ihre/n Regierungschef/in und bitten Sie ihn/sie, sich für ein Moratorium einzusetzen.

CERN has launched this August 29, a hasty, just 2-sided and provisional “study” in which two authors refer to a recent and highly disturbing study of a scientist, Dr Rainer Plaga, whose work basically follows the same “semi-classical” approach, as CERN-safety reports do. CERN is reacting to Dr Plaga’s calculations (for the assumption of only one extra dimension), which predicts an explosion of the LHC, that would also directly threaten the city of Geneva. This production of an extremely radiating object, a so-called “semi-stable black hole” would be indestructible and unremoveable, with even short-term catastrophic and irreversible global consequences.
CERN’s short paper tries to find errors in Dr Plaga’s scientific study and apparently intends to ensure the planned opening of the LHC on September 10 will occur without delay and to show it appear as safe.
The two contradicting studies can be found here: Dr Plaga’s paper is found on http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0808/0808.1415v1.pdf CERN’s reaction on http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0808/0808.4087v1.pdf

The researchers opposed to the LHC are a group inspired around the well-known LHC-critic Prof. Otto Rössler (University of Tübingen) and others who elaborated a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights. A total of 12 plus 1 critical points are given in the suit and it also includes a claim for interim measures to stop the experiment until the scientific clarification of the numerous open questions about global risks. The claim for interim measures was dismissed by the Court while the appeal is being studied in detail now.

The LHC-Kritik-Group has now presented the appeal to the public on its Internet site: www.LHC-concern.info and has met great media interest from all over the world. Markus Goritschnig MA, a spokesman for the group: “Maybe the CERN representatives go right in their response to this new study, but maybe not. The arguments of Dr Plaga surely can not immediately be scientifically analyzed by the authors of the study nor can Dr Plaga immediately react to the counter-arguments. The CERN paper also covers only this actually mentioned black hole risk we additionally raised in our complaint, regardless of the other 12 main sections of arguments from different sources. In this expert dispute with an open end some interdisciplinary and external analyzes would be absolutely necessary to estimate the potential risks in a more objective way.”

An important CERN physicist recently said: “The way to stop all these arguments about whether the LHC is going to destroy the planet, is to get the LHC working.” Source: JR Ellis “The LHC is safe” CERN, Geneva, 2008-08-14 T16: 30:00 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1120625/ quote at the end of the talk in 1:02:30) According to this statement CERN intends to cut off this expert debate through a potentially highly dangerous experiment.

The LHC-Kritik-group now appeals to the sense of responsibility of CERN, in the light of these thin “evidences” built on hypotheses and the ongoing discussion about the security aspect, to set a moratorium by itself to guarantee a serious scientific struggle to solve also the many other outstanding questions about the potential global risks. The critics also appeal to the responsible politicians of the 20 European member-states of CERN and to the Nobel-Price-Committee to recommend or respectively to grant an injunction of the opening on September 10 in that sense.

The now newly published CERN safety-report (September 5) is just the old one we already took into consideration in our complaint. Our argumentation has not seriously been countered.

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