The Big Bang Generator That Wasn't

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 11, 1999 @07:51AM from the defusing-the-errors dept.

ajs sent us a good investigative piece from the Boston Globe. Many of you recall the article about the Long Island particle accelerator that was going to try to replicate Big Bang conditions. Over the last three months, it's moved around the media, culminating with Fred Moody's scare piece about it, although the British Sunday Times recently picked it up yet again. The Globe article does a great job dissecting the actual facts behind the experiment and pokes fun at the growth of this Chicken Little-type story.

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You can also read the official report by decowski · 1999-10-11 03:43 · Score: 5

a committee of prominent physicists has also written a report, titled "Committee Report on Speculative "Disaster Scenarios" at RHIC". you can find it at http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/rhicreport.html . you will find the three 'disaster' scenarios described there.

sorry, no black holes or strangelets!

patrick.