Is there a black hole that will swallow Earth?

Will our green planet disappear because of a cosmic black hole created by humans right in the middle of peaceful Switzerland? There are currently two scientists pursuing a lawsuit in Hawaii to look forward to stopping the experiment that they consider to be out of control.

The two suspected the experiment created a collision of protons at a giant particle accelerator in Geneva (Switzerland) that could create a black hole, which would swallow Earth and even Space. The New York Times last week quoted scientists as saying that this is unlikely to happen, but said they would still have to check back for sure.

Recreate the moment after Big Bang

Large Hadron Collider test area (LHC) was built during the last 14 years with an investment of up to 8 billion USD. The LHC lab is designed to burn protons with energy up to 7,000 billion volts before creating collisions between these particles. World physicists had hoped that the collision between protons would produce energy and conditions like the one-part-trillion-second (1/10 ¹² ) moment after the Big Bang. Researchers will consider those initial reactions to understand the nature of weight as well as about the symmetry of nature.

Part of the LHC laboratory (Photo: NY Times)

Dr. Walter Wagner - a physical researcher living in Hawaii and Luis Sancho - a researcher on Spain's living time, sued for arguing that scientists at the European Center for Atomic Research (CERN) did not appreciate the risk of such a collision in addition to many other risks, possibly creating a small black hole that could completely swallow the Earth. In addition, the experiment can create "stranglet" that can make our planet cower into a thick material. In the lawsuit, both sued CERN for not providing information. about environmental harms such as not complying with US environmental regulations.

The story is very strange, but the incident touched on a serious problem that has led scholars and scientists in recent times - that is how to calculate the dangers of breakthrough experiments. new and who has the right to decide whether to conduct the experiments or not.

Anxiety about the end of the world

Wagner studied physics and cosmic rays at the University of California at Berkely and received a law degree from the Northern California School in Sacramento.He then worked as a radiation officer for the US Department of Veterans Affairs.He filed a lawsuit in 1999 and 2000 to prevent Brookhaven National Laboratory from operating a heavy ion impact lab.The lawsuit was dismissed in 2001. The gold ion collision is one of the tests to find the "quark base in plasma" (quark-gluon plasma).This laboratory has been operating since 2000 until now but has not had any problems.

Both filed on March 21 at Honolulu District Court (Hawaii, USA) demanded a temporary ban on CERN to operate the accelerator until a report on the safety of the experiment was released. The petition is aimed at the US Department of Energy, Fermi accelerator laboratory (USA), the National Science Foundation of America and CERN. Dr. Wagner said it was unclear whether CERN, an organization in Europe, appeared in court in Hawaii but believed that CERN had to comply with the court's ruling. He said a restraining order for the Fermi lab and the US Department of Energy, currently helping to supply and maintain the superconducting magnets of the accelerator, also meant stopping the project in Europe.

Physicists inside and outside CERN have concluded in a series of studies, including an official report from CERN in 2003 that the laboratory has no problems. However, to ensure safety, a " safety review " group has been established for review from last year. Michelangelo Mangano, a CERN researcher, said: " The ability of a black hole to swallow Earth is too serious. It cannot be considered simply as an eccentric hypothesis ."

The fear of apocalypse has long been a topic in physical research. At Los Alamos, where the first nuclear bomb was tested, scientist Emil Konopinski was tasked with calculating whether the explosion caused the entire atmosphere to burn. Lisa Randall, a physicist who had a study on the hypothesis that black holes occurred after the proton collision, had a study last year saying the collision would not produce a black hole but the force of gravity. Death can happen.

In another report, Mangano and Steve Giddings of the University of California, who have conducted thorough research over the past few months about the possibility of a black hole, said there would be no problem, but are still no information has been released until their studies are reviewed. Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed, a fundamental particle researcher at Princeton's Institute of Advanced Studies, also said that almost nothing will happen in the LHC compared to hundreds of thousands of light collisions in the Universe. cylinder. But the difference is that fragments from cosmic rays that once shot harmlessly through the Earth when born in a relatively static state in the laboratory can create certain devastations.