New Lawsuit to stop CERN filed in Europe. 'Suit Alleges CERN In Violation Of Human Rights' - ScientificBlogging.com - Alan Gillis - 28 August 2008: "August 26th, a group of LHC critics filed a suit against CERN in the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg . The authors of the suit are physicists, professors and students largely from Germany and Austria, who feel that the operation of the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, poses grave risks for the safety and well-being of the 27 member states of the European Union and their citizens. Bosenovas are a new risk theory in the suit, besides the better known Strangelets and Lowered Vacuum State theories. Unlike the others there is some experimental evidence for a Bosenova, but this phenomenon of implosion/explosion has only been produced in small groups of atoms of Rubidium-85 in an ultracold state, a Bose-Einstein Condensate. What might occur at the LHC, is a new type of Bosenova from what amounts to a BEC used there as a coolant, an ultracold Superfluid Helium II, of about 60 metric tonnes in the LHC ring, and a further 60 tonnes of somewhat warmer Superfluid Helium I in refrigeration plants on the surface connected to the subterranean main ring. Whether possible or not is unknown, no experiments having been done by CERN to rule out the possibility, nor any theoretical model studies." Large Hadron Collider [LHC] legal defense fund - LHCDefense.org 'B.C. scientists aim to unlock secrets of universe' - Straight.com - May 15, 2008: "Amid all the excitement, some scientists have warned that working with such high energy levels could be catastrophic. Walter Wagner, a former nuclear safety officer who claims to have been studying nuclear physics for more than 30 years, has brought a lawsuit against the LHC and CERN in a federal court in Hawaii. According to his complaint, the levels of energy created by the LHC’s collisions could create microscopic black holes or “strangelets”, either of which could destroy the entire planet. A black hole is a region of space with an incredible amount of mass. The result is a gravitational field so powerful that not even light can escape its pull. Speaking to the Straight from Hawaii, Wagner explained his concerns. “A micro black hole would simply bounce around, hitting other atoms and absorbing them into itself,” he said. Over a period of months or years, a reaction that began in the depths of CERN’s underground laboratories would eventually grow to swallow the Earth. A strangelet, Wagner continued, is potentially more stable than any kind of existing matter. If one were created inside the LHC, it would convert any matter it came into contact with into a part of itself. “The larger atom would eventually convert all of the Earth into a large strange atom,” Wagner said. Part of Wagner’s complaint for a temporary restraining order reads: “There is no question that should defendants inadvertently create a dangerous form of matter…or otherwise create unsafe conditions of physics, then the environmental impact would be both local and national in scope, and quite deadly to everyone.” Wagner maintains that nobody has come up with definite proof that CERN will not create these potentially disastrous particles. It turns out that he’s technically correct. Dugan O’Neil is an associate professor at SFU and is one of approximately a dozen scientists that the university will have analyzing data from ATLAS. Federal funding for TRIUMF’s computing centre goes through SFU, making it another Canadian institution that is playing an integral role in CERN’s groundbreaking work. Addressing concerns raised by Wagner’s lawsuit, O’Neil said that it is never going to be possible to completely exclude some “very strange things” from happening. “It would be fascinating if those theories were right,” O’Neil, said, only somewhat jokingly. “But the probability that they’re right is exceedingly small.” He continued, “There’s no evidence that microscopic black holes exist; there’s no evidence that strangelets exist.” O’Neil said that concerns around micro black holes and strangelets have developed out of mathematical theories written in a particular way that make predictions for these dangerous particles possible. “It’s much easier to come up with a crazy idea than disprove an absolutely crazy idea,” he added. Asked for odds on whether or not the world will end, O’Neil laughed but declined to commit himself to numbers. “Extremely, extremely unlikely,” he said. So we could discover how the universe originated, what it is made up of, and why it works the way that it does. And the probability of destroying the Earth in the process is relatively small." 'Big-bang machine’s battle plan set' - MSNBC: "...the first attempt to inject proton beams into the collider “likely to be in the second half of July,...”" 'The Big Bang' - Harvard Crimson: "Wagner and Sancho’s lawsuit, while improbable, is not frivolous." 'Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More' - New York Times: "...anything created when the beams meet head-on in the collider will be born at rest relative to the laboratory and so will stick around and thus could create havoc." The Large Hadron Collider Explained