Court rejects protest against Big Bang machine

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a complaint against the planned launch of the world's most powerful particle accelerator near the Swiss-French border.

Opponents, including the German biochemist Otto Rössler, tried to block the experiment due to begin on September 10, saying it would result in black holes that could suck up the Earth.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) welcomed the court ruling on Friday. It dismisses accusations that the experiment is irresponsible and risky.

The court is still to decide on allegations that the experiment with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) violates the right to life.

The machine, housed in a circular tunnel near Geneva, will try to recreate conditions just after the so-called Big Bang - the presumed birth of the universe.

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The main point of Dr. Otto Rössler's objections was, the occasionally charged black hole or stranglet can swallow the matter of Earth faster, then the CERN security analysis has ever considered. This is quite relevant point.

My additional point is, the occasionally formed dense matter particle can be stabilized by its surface tension against decomposition, which is another effect, which the CERN security analysis never considered. The evidence of pentaquark and tetraneutronium states makes this hypothesis relevant.

It's alarming, such large scale experiments are started without thorough analysis and persons responsible for its actualization, whenever new risk factors appears.

this is horribe they are going to destroy the earth and it will start in my own country. i agree with anyone aganist this project.

hi i agree with theo

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There is so much wrong with your solution, Kate. Just destroy another planet. There could be so many things that could go wrong. We are still questioning the universe. I think that it will be a little bit more complicated than just destroying another planet. In the end we could destroy our own planet in the process.

But do you really think that they were going to let people make the collider.

i agree with steve, you are wrong to think that!! Jim, your the wrong one. Atika was making a good point. With your "they are not killing everyone... yet" attidude.

u go steve

Jim, maybe your the wrong one. Atika was making a good point. With your "they are not killing everyone... yet" attidude.

atika, you are very wrong they are not killing everyone ....YET

everyone remeber the big bang is a THEORY

They have to stop. They have to be arrested!! They are killing everyone. Everyone has to do war with them until they stop this. If they do this we all are involved.

They have no right to destroy the earth. If there is any way to stop this I want to know.

I'M AGAINST THIS EXPERIMENT 100%, THIS PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHTS TO DO THIS , JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE MONEY AND POWER. I WILL BLAME SWITZERLAND FOR ALL THE DISSASTERS THAT WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS MACHINE..BIG BANG.....

What is the purpose of this experiment? Instead of spending billions on re-creating the big bang, they should be spending it on poor countries who really need the support. Where do they get the money to do this? TAX..? We as humans should have the right to vote whether this experiment should have been carried out. They are risking the lives of innocent people, they are risking EARTH itself. All they have are theories & figures not facts, they are not 100% sure of what a black hole can do. If a country launches an atomic bomb or create one, the government are quick to act on the matter but this sort of thing is more dangerous than anything. Of course we should know about the universe but some things should be left alone and not try to re-create one.

Well a black whole is only as big as its mass, so technically speaking it wouldn't suck up earth but if something goes wrong still could kill innocent people. Some things in the world are better off not known. And eventually this will get to the ears of governments around the world because this is not just affecting Switzerland but many other countries

i dont see why that have do do the experiment in the first place, i know we might discover more things about our world, but who relly wants to know? there is things we do know about our world and that is that there are people starving in other countries childern dying of thirst, surly billions of pound will be much better spent on saving these people! when are scientist going to realise that they could find out everything bout the way the world works but what does it matter in the end when the truely amasing things are our souls and how we love, isnt that what people want at the end of the day?

This experiment is completely violating the right to life! As much as we all want to know how the world began, why are they going to risk ending it over this. Theres a possiblity things could get better through carrying this out. But there is also a chance of it going terribly wrong and causing destruction to our universe! I applaue the effort but I hope this does not cause mass destruction to our planet.

you cant say that there is no potential profit in the technology, and may not necesarily be the birth of a new weapon of mass destruction, as everybody knows we are running out of fossil fuels. this machine may be able to speed up the process or be used to find the new technology that could create fossil fuels. aswell as this, valuable gems can be created by compressing material over a number of years, perhaps the swiss may be able to create diamonds etc? which would be more than enough to cover and costs of creating it, it could also be used to develope cold fusion and be used to sort the issue of unrecycleable rubbish that we are having to stick in landfills which we are running out of. although this device is potentialy life threatening, it is also potentialy what will advance life as we know it.

Much ado about nothing, instead of the debate about potential black holes and the end of the universe as we know it, I have other concerns.

Nobody, and I mean nobody gets this kind of funding if there was no potential for profit! The only potential I can see is the making of yet another weapon of mass destruction. The question you should be asking is, who put up the majority of the funds, then you will also know who the future world dictators and leaders will be.

This kind of research is paramount to understand how elements work together and might be created. The key word being CREATED! even dumb people understand how powerful an atom can be. Understanding the atomic history is important when considering an opinion on this matter. I say this research is great and as a swiss citizen I applaud this effort! Go Switzerland!

Did Maxwell know that his works on electromagnetism would directly influence the creation of special relativity some 40 years later? Of course not. Yet, look what both fields have brought us in both knowledge as well as applicable technology.

What direct tangible improvement in technology will result directly from these experiments? It is a basic feature of being human that we experiment simply to learn. This is the only reason we need to justify our desire to experiment. If we learn something from this device, then it has been worth it.

Personally I would feel much better if they did better safety checking before going ahead with this as I feel this may be a case of profit before anythingcelse, as is sadly how most things work now.

The scientists have no right to conduct an experiment of dubious worth and of potential catastrophic risk to the whole planet.
The science is of no interest to the general public and the benefits of any discovery are outweighed by the potential dangers. In fact advanced science of this type is a slick way of sapping billions in tax-payers money. Why can't the scientists wait until the experiment can be done remotely on another planet?

To put our minds at ease they should explain why it it is important to recreate the conditions of the "big bang" and why it is impossible that this machine can create a black-hole. Ignorance necessitates explanation.

Presumed birth of the universe? Presumed?! So-called Big Bang?! I'm stunned with the skepticism of the journalist! He/she belongs to the same category of Rössler. Big Bang is a theory, therefore falsifiable. But it's predictions have been verified and measured very accurately, which means that it is not a presumption. It is fact! Big Bang happened, and any knowledge about the early Universe not known by physicists are details, they won't change the fact that Big Bang happened! About Rössler... I'm just amazed that he got so much attention. Not everyone is qualified to talk about science!