CERN is proposing a new underground accelerator under Geneva, with a circumference of 80 kilometres – 50 miles, three times the size of the current Large Hadron Collider, in order to solve how gravity works. ATLAS Drawing. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
Scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), two months after they found the Higgs boson the ‘God particle’ (on July 4), they propose to build an even larger Collider to solve how gravity interacts on a molecular level.
Image credit: CERN
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Understanding Gravity
CERN is planning to build a new collider, 80 km long, for understanding gravity. But I oppose this project, in view of following information.
1) Is physics approaching a state of stagnation? Letter in Am.J. Phys., March 1980, p. 175, by C. Sharp Cook. Cook had studied significant discoveries from 1530 to 1970. According to that Letter, increase in discoveries between 1600 and 1940 was roughly exponential p followed by rapid decline in more recent years – despite increase in PhDs and research papers. Hence his conclusion: physics is in the stage of stagnation.
2) Is the gravitational force really weak? My Letter in Physics Education, India, July-September 2001, p, 167. Gravitational force is usually regarded as the weakest force by physicists. However, I felt the necessity of reconsidering this notion due to problems in physics education.
Therefore, I think that before launching such costly projects we must focus attention on the “conceptual aspects” of gravity. Otherwise our global collaborations can turn futile. If necessary, contact me on mobile: 09922467861.