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Stop the LHC – until we know it’s SAFE!
That is what LHCDefense.org – the self-proclaimed “official site for citizens against the Large Hadron Collider” – exhorts us to do, through articles such as Curiosity killed the cat!, New paper contradicts Hawking, and Higgs vs. Hawking. A hot new niche Using everything from “expert” opinions, research papers on arxiv, and biblical verses, the website’s creator(s) have cunningly played upon the layperson’s paranoia of the “mad/evil scientist/Dr. Strangelove” cliché to sensationalize the issue and in the process have created a sizable following for the website, not to mention a good deal of publicity. LHCDefense.org is by no means the only website cashing in on this hot new niche; there is a plethora of sites that have espoused LHC-bashing and proffer their myriad points of view to the anxious reader in exchange for some PR juice. lhcfacts.org and bigsciencenews.blogspot.com are good examples. These websites’ main contentions...
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-> view full discussion <- Dyau: The evidence so far: We know that Hawking radiation is emitted by all black holes. The rate at which a black hole radiates is inversely proportional to the square of its mass. We also know that Hawking radiation does not conserve Baryon Number. In other words,...
-> view full discussion <- Dyau : Friends, thought of throwing up a few current open questions/problems in cutting-edge black hole research and seeing what you all think of them. Firstly, let us define black holes: Black holes are predicted by general relativity to be formed whenever...
-> view full discussion <- Dyau: Friends, let me share a problem I’ve been pondering. Consider two black holes which we define as below: 1) Black Hole 1 (BH1) has the mass of a proton (0.938 GeV) and contains a positive charge equivalent to the charge of a proton (1.602176487 ×...
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Sensational picture of the ISS and Endeavor transiting the Sun
Take a look at this amazing picture taken by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. It shows the space shuttle Endeavor and the International Space Station – docked together, transiting the Sun. Undoubtedly one of the photos of the year. The International Space Station and space shuttle Endeavor...
-> view full discussion <- Dark Energy Camera scans ancient skies Gazing into space, scientists wonder why the universe is expanding ever faster. What mysterious force is at work? By recording the light from hundreds of millions of galaxies from a mountaintop in Chile, they hope to find...
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