Today i.e., 10th August 2008, Physicists of the world will switch on the biggest and most complicated set-up in particle physics, and initiate testing of the Large Hedron Collider. Media, scientific communities and several other forums have shown concerns about the experiments at the European research facility at CERN (The European Centre for Nuclear Research) . People fear that the experiments are unsafe and may cause a catastropy of universal proportions. Large Hadron Collider(LHC), aim to recreate conditions similiar to those which existed at the time of the creation of the universe. Some of the leading Physicist of the world are seeing the possibilities that this experiment may destroy the Earth. CERN is installing a new high-energy particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is expected to produce particles scientists have not seen before. Besides magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles, two other particles listed below could be dangerous and so dangerous that they could destroy the entire Earth. .

Black Holes

Several published papers are predicting that the LHC will produce mini black holes and there are risks that a mini black hole could swallow Earth In the worst case. Black holes have gravity so strong that even light cannot escape. That is why they are black. In the worst case, that immense gravity could suck in and swallow the entire Earth. Some physicists have published papers predicting that CERN will produce a black hole every second.

Strangelets

Strangelets (another potential collider product) might catalyze conversion of normal matter into more strangelets, turning Earth into a small ball of strangelets.Strange matter has a different arrangement of quarks than normal matter. Some physicists think it can catalyze the conversion of normal matter into more strange matter. If this reaction gets going, it will convert the entire earth into a small ball of strange matter.

What is Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?

About 100 m beneath the earth surface, in a tunnel that runs in a ring for 27 km (17 miles), the LHC is being assembled from its constituent parts.The 3.8 metre diameter, concrete-lined tunnel, constructed between 1983 and 1988, was formerly used to house the LEP, an electron-positron collider. The majority of length of the tunnel is inside France through it passes through the border between Switzerland and France at four points.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator located underground, with many surface buildings holding ancillary equipment such as compressors, ventilation equipment, control electronics and refrigeration plants. The Large Hadron Collider is costing some £1.3bn. The cost is being met by contributions from Cern's member countries (including the UK) and international partners such as the US, Japan, China and India.The LHC is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC is being built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

The collider is expected to produce upon activation the elusive Higgs boson.This huge physics experiment will collide two beams of particles head-on at super-fast speeds, recreating the conditions in the Universe moments after the Big Bang. The beam collisions would create showers of new particles, revealing new physics beyond the Standard Model and confirm the predictions and missing links in the same and explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. To make it happen, the LHC needs to reach much higher energies than previous colliders. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces.

What do the Scientists associated with the project say about the risks involved?

Scientists believe that experiments will not endanger our planet and there is powerful empirical evidence against the possibility of dangerous strangelet production.

They further state that collisions at these energies have been happening in nature for billions of years apparently without hazardous effects.

If dangerous strangelets or micro black holes were created at LHC, a proportion would have less than the Earth's escape velocity (of 11.2km/s), and therefore would be captured by the Earth's gravitational field, whereas those created by high-energy cosmic rays would leave the planet at high speed, due to the laws of conservation of momentum at relativistic speeds

Until and unless safety of the Earth is ensured by conducting studies to find answers to the issues raised by media and scientific community, we should not risk the safety of the entire earth by conducting these experiments. Though it would be difficult to assume that the CERN, Scientis associated with the project and goernments financing this project will readily agree to stop the activities but there is no harm in delaying the project to carry out the studies that provide sufficient evidences that our planet and lives of habitants are not at all in danger.If there are even 1% chances of creation of black holes or strangelet then this experiment must be stopped.

Current Updates:

• The LHC fired two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground ring on Wednesday (August 10, 2008)i

• Two white dots flashed on a computer screen indicated that the protons had travelled clockwise along the full length of Large Hadron Collider

• Two beams will be fired at the same time in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the Big Bang,and this would be done within a few months

• Information and broadcasting (I&B) Ministry. Government of India has issued advisories to India TV and Aaj Tak for spreading "misinformation, fear and horror" among people.