The worry for me is that the danger is still there. Yes whilst there is a certain amount of risk in everything we do from taking a walk to going bungee jumping the scale of what will happen in the LHC raises alarm bells in my head.
The problem is that you need some perspective on the issue, otherwise you'll be susceptible to scary-sounding numbers waved around by alarmists:
As with a previous post with a link I attached I raised the points that the energy used here would be around trillions of TNT
No. That particular bit of the article was gibberish. They were talking about particles with energies up to 14 trillion
electron-volts (TeV).
That amount of energy is equal to about one trillionth of the food energy in one can of soda pop. It's enough to lift a one-ounce weight straight up about 0.0003 inches.
and that the magnetic field produced by such an experiment would be thousands of times more powerful than the Earths.
MRI machines routinely create fields on the order of 20,000 stronger than the Earth's magnetic field. Thousands of people are scanned by such machines every day. Facilities such as the
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory generate fields a million times stronger than the Earth's.
I got this information from a pro - LHC site not an anti - LHC site. Please look at the earlier post with link and let me know what you think.
I think (a) their wording was very sloppy, and (b) you need to calm down and put these things in context. Remember, Nature routinely inflicts far more violent events on the Earth than the LHC collisions, and Man routinely generates far stronger magnetic fields than does Earth.
(Minor grammatical edits.)