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In the coming months the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate the conditions right after the Big Bang. By revisiting the beginning of time, scientists hope to unravel some of the deepest secrets of our Universe.

Within these first few moments the building blocks of the Universe were created. The search for these fundamental particles has occupied scientists for decades but there remains one particle that has stubbornly refused to appear in any experiment. The Higgs Boson is so crucial to our understanding of the Universe that it has been dubbed the God particle. It explains how fundamental particles acquire mass, or as one scientist plainly states: "It is what makes stuff stuff...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/universe/vote/
This page is the most interesting in my opinion.  

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Some scientists argue that during a ten year spell of operation there is a 1 in 50,000,000 chance that experiments like the LHC could caus a disaster of epic proportions.  

Either a black hole or a new type of of matter known as 'stranglets' could form, destroying the planet. Or possibly the fabric of space couldbe ripped apart producing a truly cosmic cataclysm.

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I'm voting yes, we as humans need to further out knowledge of how our universe came into being. There will always be risks, and although it needs to be considered, it needs to be overcome to truly understand the nature of the universe.

Post edited at 2:07 pm on April 30, 2007 by bourney

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The Grimsby are going to Wemberleh!
30/03/2008. Dons beware.

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Yeah ti should be turned oooooooooooooooon.

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OR. that black hole could act in a way contrary to popular belief and ACTUALLY allow mass to travel through it un harmed. that would be cool [if we had a sun on the other side to heat us that is]

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            ...life is good...
...mai ho oni i ka wai lana malie...

Anyhow, this seems relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Safety_concerns

Post edited at 2:48 am on May 1, 2007 by Tangaroa

God's not going to let anything bad happen to us!

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You'd think a thousand miles would be enough,
I guess I'll keep walking.

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i say no,i dont know much about the macine and how it works but i dont trust other humans enough to toy with space

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That's what they said when the cavemen banged rocks together and made fire.

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