Super accelerators can destroy the Earth

Scientists and law experts expressed concern that an ambitious experiment using a super accelerator could accidentally destroy Earth.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider / RHIC of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States is becoming the focus of attention, after experts warned of serious dangers involved. to plan to upgrade large-scale machines.

In operation, RHIC speeds up the nuclei to the speed of light before crushing them together in an attempt to create quark-gluon plasma, a very hot form of matter, more than 4,000 billion degrees Celsius, given was once appeared immediately after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

America's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is currently the second most powerful accelerator in the world, behind only the large particle accelerator (LHC) of the Atomic Research Organization of Europe. Europe (CERN).(Photo: Daily Mail)

After the upgrade, the second most powerful accelerator in the world, just behind the large particle accelerator (LHC) of the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN), is expected to trigger incidents. touches up to 20 times the maximum when the machine was originally built.

The plan is making experts worry. In an article published in the International Business Times, Eric Johnson, a law professor at North Dakota and Professor Michael Baram of Boston Law School, stressed that RHIC management facilities need to conduct a reevaluation. The risk of the post-upgrade machine could create an enormous disaster, enough to destroy all life on Earth.

Although testing with the RHIC super-accelerator can help answer questions about how life began on our planet, critics, including the Royal Astronomical Society He recommended, the process could randomly generate tiny black holes and strangelet subatomic particles .

The strangelet particle is a hypothetical form of quark matter, under certain conditions capable of activating a chain reaction and transforming everything into "strange matter" , leading to the destruction of the Earth.

Experts are concerned, experimenting with the upgraded RHIC can create a chain reaction and transform everything into strange material, leading to the destruction of all life on Earth.(Photo: Corbis)

Experts are particularly concerned, experiments at low energy levels can also produce strangelet particles. Meanwhile, a recent report shows that mini black holes can form from lower energy levels than our initial speculation.

According to iO9, similar concerns have also occurred when CERN's LHC machine began the process of searching for "God's particles" , although it is unlikely that particle accelerators could produce stable black holes. and even if that is done, black holes cannot absorb matter in a way that threatens the planet.