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Physicists Collide with Doomsayers

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Sep. 10, 2008 — Recently, theoretical chemist Otto Rössler and others have protested the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, fearing that the world’s largest particle accelerator will produce massive black holes that will swallow Earth. Proponents of the collider say that it will help scientists understand how the universe formed after the Big Bang. Physicists in favor of the particle accelerator concede a small chance that tiny black holes could form, but say that they would be too small to suck in Earth. Despite all protests, the collider will be turned on Wednesday. Rössler says...Read full article

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    Published: September 2008
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    black hole
    A cosmic phenomenon in which the mass and density of a star pass a critical point so that the escape velocity matches the speed of light. For this reason, light and matter are "captured'' by the black hole and cannot escape.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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