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As we approach the final days before the Large Hadron Collider starts its mission, we start seeing more and more titles that point towards the end of the world, literally, with black holes destroying humankind and our planet.But how true is that? Logically speaking, why would we want to destroy our own planet? That just doesn't sound right, and I don't think the scientific community would engage in a dangerous experiment just for the fun of it! The scary part of all this doesn't actually come from the scientists involved in the experiment, but from people around the world, who've sent them...
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, is ready to step into the next phase of its biggest and most expensive experiment to date. Over the past few years the agency has spent more than $8 billion working on a 27-km long tunnel near Geneva, which is packed with today’s latest technology.The Large Hadron Collider, as the Geneva machine is called, will recreate never before seen nature conditions by putting together subatomic particles called protons. The massive amount of data will be analyzed by 300 computer centers from 50 countries, turning it into the biggest...
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Back during the days of the atomic bomb development, some scientists feared that an atomic bomb could destroy the entire atmosphere. However, Robert Oppenheimer's team soon proved that this was a calculation error (they didn't have computers as we understand them today). Scientists Konopinski, C. Marvin, and Teller wrote report LA-602, showing that ignition of the atmosphere was impossible, not just unlikely. Similarly, now some fear that the Large Hadron Collider, which is a state of the art European particle accelerator that will send beams of protons around a 17-mile underground ring,...
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Scientists
have recently discovered that, due to global warming and its heating effect on
oceans, hurricanes are likely to become both more frequent and more intense.
Published
in Thursday’s issue of the journal
Nature, a study conducted by a team of
researchers led by hurricane scientist at the Florida State University James
Elsner, showed that climate change registered during the past 25 years had
really affected storms, rendering them stronger.
Satellite data from 1981 through 2006, a 25-year period in which sea
surface temperature registered a rise from 82.8 degrees...
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It’s easy to just look at the hurricane season intensify and
blame it on the weather, but instead we should be looking at our own actions
that cause the storms to become ever more violent. According to a study published
in the journal Nature, scientists have uncovered evidence that point to a
direct link between global warming and the intensity of storms worldwide.
Researchers James Elsner and Thomas Jagger of the Florida
State University, together with James Kossin of the University of Wisconsin,
revealed that rising ocean temperatures are directly linked with the upward...
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