Media accelerates doomsday speculations around particle accelerator
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) project not only promises – or at least aims – to unravel the mysteries of mass and matter, but also heralds a new era in supercomputing. A collective effort of engineers and scientists from over 60 countries, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a giant underground tunnel dug in near Geneva – was officially launched in October 2008, and is set to resume operations anytime this summer following repairs. The LHC smashes sub-atomic particles called ‘hadrons’ into each other at high speeds to create conditions that existed in the nanoseconds following the purported Big Bang at the zero hour of this universe.
But before the first switch-on, doomsayers predicted the end of the world due to black holes created in high-energy collisions, and the media had given the experiment a Dr. Strangelovean import. Headline in the British newspaper The Sun before the official switch-on read “End of the world due in nine days”! Many scientists had to put up with supplications, petitions and even threats, despite their best efforts to explain the improbability of any such doom. Dr. Yashpal, renowned physicist and academician says, “In a nutshell, the media doesn’t understand anything. The LHC is one of the greatest attempts made by humans to understand why the world is the way it is… It’s like looking into the mind of God.”
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) project not only promises – or at least aims – to unravel the mysteries of mass and matter, but also heralds a new era in supercomputing. A collective effort of engineers and scientists from over 60 countries, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a giant underground tunnel dug in near Geneva – was officially launched in October 2008, and is set to resume operations anytime this summer following repairs. The LHC smashes sub-atomic particles called ‘hadrons’ into each other at high speeds to create conditions that existed in the nanoseconds following the purported Big Bang at the zero hour of this universe.
But before the first switch-on, doomsayers predicted the end of the world due to black holes created in high-energy collisions, and the media had given the experiment a Dr. Strangelovean import. Headline in the British newspaper The Sun before the official switch-on read “End of the world due in nine days”! Many scientists had to put up with supplications, petitions and even threats, despite their best efforts to explain the improbability of any such doom. Dr. Yashpal, renowned physicist and academician says, “In a nutshell, the media doesn’t understand anything. The LHC is one of the greatest attempts made by humans to understand why the world is the way it is… It’s like looking into the mind of God.”
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