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Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider


Scientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged
by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next
Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.


The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, where particles will begin to
circulate around its 17 mile circumference tunnel next week, will recreate
energies not seen since the universe was very young, when particles smash
together at near the speed of light.

Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank
Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death
threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who
thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t---."

The head of public relations, James Gillies, says he gets tearful phone
calls, pleading for the £4.5 billion machine to stop.

"They phone me and say: "I am seriously worried. Please tell me that my
children are safe," said Gillies.

Emails also arrive every day that beg for reassurance that the world will
not end, he explained.

Others are more aggressive. "There are a number who say: "You are evil and
dangerous and you are going to destroy the world."

"I find myself getting slightly angry, not because people are getting in
touch but the fact they have been driven to do that by what is nonsense.
What we are doing is enriching humanity, not putting it at risk."

There have also been legal attempts to halt the start up.

The remarkable outpouring of concern about turning on the experiment, the
most ambitious in history, comes as a new report concludes that it poses no
threat to mankind.

Since 1994, when the collider was first mooted by the multi-national
European nuclear research organisation (CERN), dogged doomsayers have
claimed that there would be a small but real risk that an unstoppable
cataclysm would take place.

Many of the emails received by Gillies cite a gloomy book - Our Final
Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? - written by
Lord Rees, astronomer royal and president of the Royal Society.

"My book has been misquoted in one or two places," Lord Rees said yesterday.
"I would refer you to the up-to-date safety study."

The new report published today provides the most comprehensive evidence
available to confirm that nature's own cosmic rays regularly produce more
powerful particle collisions than those planned within the LHC.

The LHC Safety Assessment Group has reviewed and updated a study first
completed in 2003, which dispels fears of universe-gobbling black holes and
of other possibly dangerous new forms of matter, and confirms that the
switch-on will be safe.

The report, 'Review of the Safety of LHC Collisions', published in the
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, proves that if particle
collisions at the LHC had the power to destroy the Earth, we would never
have been given the chance to worry about the LHC, because regular
interactions with more energetic cosmic rays would already have destroyed
the Earth.

The Safety Assessment Group writes, "Nature has already conducted the
equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on
Earth - and the planet still exists."

The Group compares the rates of cosmic rays that bombard Earth to show that
hypothetical black holes or strangelets, that have raised fears in some,
will pose no threat.

As the Group writes, "Each collision of a pair of protons in the LHC will
release an amount of energy comparable to that of two colliding mosquitoes,
so any black hole produced would be much smaller than those known to
astrophysicists." They also say that such microscopic black holes could not
grow dangerously.

As for the equally hypothetical strangelets, the review uses recent
experimental measurements at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's
Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, New York, to prove that they will not be
produced in the LHC.

The collider is designed to seek out new particles including the
long-awaited Higgs boson responsible for making things weigh what they do,
the possible source of gravity called dark matter, as well as probe the
differences between matter and antimatter.

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