The most expensive and prestigious scientific experiment of history bases its public acceptance on a “safety report,“ written by staff, which makes two decisive claims: (1) Any mini-black holes generated by the LHC experiment can only grow linearly inside Earth and hence will be innocuous; (2) if any danger existed, the natural ultra-fast analogues of the artificial mini-black holes ought to have long extinguished most neutron stars. The safety report was never updated even though it was published under a policy of selective non-quotation. For the authors knew ahead of publication that point (1) is false if chaos theory is right, and point (2) is false if quantum mechanics is right. As I described (partially) in a talk responded to in early 2008 by one of the safety authors in a public interview, and then in more detail in two papers sent to CERN months before their own report appeared and published ahead of the latter. Both results go
unchallenged up to this day to the best of my knowledge.
All I am asking for is a public clarification of this state of affairs before the experiment is resumed or upgraded in any form – as currently planned for tomorrow. Please, dear planet, do insist on falsification of this proof of danger before “CERN“ – the only legally immune State on the planet – is allowed to go on in violation of the principle of scientific honesty. This modest request would be justified even if the planet were not put at stake, as I still hope to be the case. For J.O.R. 31.01.10
2010-01-31 | achtphasen | 19:58:15 |
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