Date: 98-05-26 22:27:03 EDT From: Phikent To: starfriends@esosoft.com CC: d005734c@dc.seflin.org, iufo@world.std.com In a message dated 98-05-26 17:48:37 EDT, you write: << ------------ Dear Venancio, Thank you for your message, and for taking the time to learn the facts about particle collisions. I am glad to respond by assuring you that particle accelerators, such as those at Fermilab and CERN, cannot cause the kinds of disastrous events that have been described. A simple calculation explains why. Each second, 100 million naturally occurring cosmic rays from space bombard the Earth, creating particle collisions with as much energy (or more) as the collisions created in the most powerful man-made particle accelerator, such as Fermilab's Tevatron. Over the life of the Earth, the number of these naturally occurring cosmic ray collisions is equal to 10 million trillion: that is, 10 with 24 zeroes after it. During all that time, not one of these trillions of high-energy particle collisions has set off this kind of disastrous event. That is why, when we create collisions in particle accelerators here on Earth, we don't have to wonder whether a disaster will happen. Nature has already shown us the answer to that question: it won't happen. When the Tevatron accelerator here at Fermilab begins operating for the next set of physics experiments, it will produce about one ten-billionth of the number of high-energy collisions that have already occurred naturally, from high-energy cosmic rays. In other words, Nature itself has produced 10 billion times as many high-energy particle collisions as we will produce with our accelerator. There is no chance that collisions in a particle accelerator will destroy the Earth. Nature has already done that experiment and shown us the results: it can't happen. I am concerned that people such as yourself may become alarmed by frightening claims that have no scientific merit, and no basis in fact. I am very glad that you took the time to ask the right questions. If you have any further concerns, or would like more information, I would be very happy to respond. Sincerely, Judy Jackson Fermilab Office of Public Affairs jjackson@fnal.gov >> Sounds like the explanations we got in the 50s about the bomb. Instead of a blanket of energy over time, what if the energy is focused at once into a single tiny point? Ever zapped ants with a magnifying glass? I'll try to find out more about this. Seems like science has two camps, or three: SOURCE ONE: From Leningrad formerly with USSR space agency, Professor of Astrophysics. http://www.eagle-net.org/phikent/orbit1a.html "Astrophysicist: that is a very powerful,very nasty accelerator! Phikent: those guys could open a white hole Astrophysicist: in fact I am just now on your webpage I see the reference to Fermilab Astrophysicist: yes, that is called an Einstein-Rosen bridge in physics terminology Astrophysicist: Imagine what the SSC could have done!!! Phikent: but...but....what kind of energy release is this? Isn't there....er....a slight danger? Like maybe an itsy-bitsy supernova? Wipe out everything for 100 light years, stuff like that? Astrophysicist: a white hole is the positive pole in an Einsten-Rosen bridge...I suppose one interpretation is, given sufficient energy a mass of 2.5 times that of the sun could be collapsed else where in the galaxy and pour in here through Illinois." SOURCE TWO: Prof. Paul W. Dixon:Univ. of Hawaii http://ww2.audionet.com/artbell/abell/9805/ab0520.ram Puncture the fabric barrier between Einstein-de Sitter space: unleash a supernova to disintegrate earth and the solar system, turn the sun into a neutron star and spread the explosion 50 light years out into the Cosmos. Kento