back to article New antimatter atomsmashers 'may destroy themselves'

A top British atom-smasher boffin says that next-generation antimatter accelerators being planned to replace today's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are at significant risk of "destroying themselves", as they rend the very fabric of the universe apart in their search for cosmic secrets. The LHC has already shown that rashly …

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  1. ShaggyDoggy

    Oh

    Don't they know that crossing the streams is extremely bad

  2. TeeCee Gold badge
    Joke

    Re: "Star Trek" already did this...

    Yes, but you forgot that there's a well known subatomic process whereby repeated mutterings about the impossibility of doing such things and the violation of physical laws required has a stabilising effect on the reaction.

    That's why the LHC is in so much trouble. There's been so much flannel about how dangerous it is that they'll be lucky to split billiard balls with it now.

  3. flannery

    No Mention of the ILC

    The ILC (International Linear Collider) [linearcollider.org] is much closer to becoming a reality than CLIC.

    I wonder why no mention of it here. It too will be an electron positron collider.

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