Scientific break-through or the end?

On September 10th, 2008 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will officially start up. This 11 Billion dollar project is the largest science machine ever created in the world. It may allow us to detect signals from the 11th dimension. Though the real objective of this machine will be to simulate what happened at the Big Bang by colliding two protons together. Now it has been acknowledged that this machine can possibly create miniature black holes. Should this be a concern? Scientist working on the project say it shouldn't as the black holes would decay almost instantly.


Now with all this reassurance it may make one feel much better. Although most of the knowledge is all theory. There is still some concern as there is always room for error . The question is do we really have enough knowledge to run these type of experiments? Lets hope so, there are many scientist from around the world working on this and billions of dollars of funding put into the project.

Well, we will find out soon enough. If everything does go successful and as planned this machine can be one of the greatest scientific achievements to date. If not it could be the most expensive scientific failures in history. The chances of catastrophic events occurring are low but nonetheless they are there. Hopefully it will provide us with knowledge to greatly increase our technology by controlling anti-matter and all that other stuff like in Star Trek. Not likely but a person can only dream.



Fun Fact: On the show LOST the Dharma Initiative was inspired by CERN (The ones behind this LHC project)