“The LHC will enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us,” said CERN Director General Robert Aymar. “The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction.”

Safety has been an integral part of the LHC project since its inception in 1994, and the project has been subject to numerous audits covering all aspects of safety and environmental impact. A comprehensive report by independent scientists addressing safety issues related to the production of new particles at the LHC was presented to CERN’s governing body, the CERN Council, in 2003. It concluded that the LHC is safe. This report was updated and its conclusions strengthened in a new report incorporating recent experimental and observational data that was presented to Council at its most recent meeting in June 2008. This new report confirms and strengthens the conclusion of the 2003 report that there is no basis for any concern about the safety of the LHC.The CERN Council is composed of representatives of the governments of the 20 European Member States of CERN.

The report was prepared by a group of scientists at CERN, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The papers comprising the report have been accepted for publication in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. The report was reviewed carefully by the Scientific Policy Committee (SPC), a body composed of 20 independent external scientists that advises the CERN Council on scientific matters. Five of these independent scientists, including one Nobel Laureate, examined in detail the 2008 report and endorsed the authors’ approach of basing their arguments on irrefutable observational evidence to conclude that new particles produced at the LHC will pose no danger. The full SPC agreed unanimously with their findings.

“The LHC safety review has shown that the LHC is perfectly safe,” said Jos Engelen, CERN’s Chief Scientific Officer, “it points out that Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists.”

Apparently, this reassuring article is from the scientists who really want to see the whole world being suck into the black hole. SO WE ALL STILL MAY SAY 拜拜 TO THE WORLD TOMORROW!!!

For some of those ignorant brats who still dunno what on earth is going on, i will be nice to do a brief summary. Basically there is this gigantic machine in Geneva(somewhere in swiss) that is 27km wide called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). They are going to use it to accelerate 2 protons and collide them at 0.999999991 times the speed of light! Then there will be a big BANG! And a black hole will be form!!! And we will all be sucked into it! END OF WORLD! MUHAHAHA...

ok maybe there will not be a black hole and we will not be sucked into it and we will have to take PROMOS! think of it. which is more worst??? haha.

Treasure your last day with your friends and loved ones!!!

For those geeks who want to know more, go this link: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1081116/files/CERN-Brochure-2008-001-Eng.pdf