More Than Meets the Eye by Richard Swenson

Author:Richard Swenson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Navigators

In an effort to discover yet more about mysterious particle physics, researchers are digging deeper and going faster than ever before. Particles at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), for example, are being accelerated to 99.995 percent of the speed of light. When these heavy ions slam into each other they are going so fast they don’t notice the collision immediately. Instead they pass through each other and blow up an instant later—at temperatures of over a trillion degrees. Researchers are looking for a quark-gluon plasma, something never before observed.19

These experiments are so novel, so high-energy, and so unprecedented that they sparked multi-nation protests fearing the research-induced formation of a black hole, an expanding vacuum bubble, or “strange matter.” Any one of these scenarios would lead to global annihilation, and possibly even the destruction of the entire universe! To pacify the worried, Brookhaven National Laboratories called together a distinguished panel of experts to investigate such possibilities. Their opinion, essentially “we seriously doubt it,” gave a green light for the research to continue.20

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