The Large Hadron Collider – Talk Tomorrow

Followup post posted 12/2/2009.

Tomorrow, Saturday November 21st at 7:00 pm,  my friend Paul Halpern will be doing a talk based on his latest book, Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles:

the Large Hadron Collider

This is at the Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention, in Cherry Hill, PA. Directions and so forth at www.philcon.org.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful accelerator in history, has been in the news because of fears that it could produce mini-black holes that might grow and threaten the Earth. In this presentation, Paul Halpern, author of Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles, will show how there is nothing to fear from the LHC, but rather much to hope for–including the prospect of solving some of the deepest dilemmas of physics such as the mystery of dark matter.

I’ve been on a couple of panels with Paul; he is always entertaining.  He has written twelve science books and is professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

I’m planning to ask him what he thinks of the odds of the Collider creating a wormhole time-machine:  there have actually been two papers, Time Machine the LHC and If LHC is a Mini-Time-Machines Factory, Can We Notice?, describing how this might happen & how to detect such.

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