A look at the Large Hadron Collider
Science: Science magazine has devoted a special issue to CERN's next generation atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider. Adrian Cho reports on the excitement at CERN as the LHC gets closer to completion, how careful budgeting, international cooperation, and stability helped CERN build the LHC, while US physicists failed with the Superconducting Super Collider, and finally, the nightmare of some physicists that the LHC will only see the Higgs Boson particle and nothing else new.
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The Large Hadron Collider Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) writes that current safety arguments are not valid proof of safety.
Posted by: JTankers | June 9, 2008 10:14 PM
The prevailing view is that the risks are small, perhaps 1 in 50,000,000 as was estimated for the RHIC collider, but this is strongly disputed as entirely unsupportable with respect to the LHC collider.
The lawsuit before US Federal Court estimates the risk at closer to 50% with a very high degree of uncertainty.
I am willing to accept a fairly high level of risk, I would not oppose 1 in 50 million odds.
I have done extensive research related to LHC Safety risks, and I am very concerned because I conclude that the risks may be exceedingly high.
Posted by: JTankers | June 9, 2008 10:15 PM