I mean that they are accelerating protons, neutrons and lead ions at very high speeds and that is very similar to an atomic bomb explosion. Are there cases of cancers in technicians, engineers and experimental particle physicists at CERN?
Really, particle physics experiments @ CERN, KEK, Japan or BNL are not dangerous. All these are to serve mankind
please have a look on the following:-
What sort of network does Cern use to share its data with the world?
As well as pioneering grid computing, Cern is also paving the way for large-scale intercontinental networking with a 10Gigabit wide area network (WAN).
How can other sectors, such as finance and banking, benefit from all these technologies?
Grid computing is already being used by Google and Amazon, as well as banks like HSBC. It will have more applications in the financial sector as processing demand grows, predicts analyst firm Gartner.
Analysts have said financial firms will deal with gigabytes of data per second within the next five years. So the sorts of grid processing, networking and storage technologies that Cern is pioneering will soon become relevant to many technology users.
A nice, concerned and possibly crazy German woman is out of luck after a higher administrative court in Muenster rejected her claim that the particle accelerator at CERN is quietly creating a black hole that will destroy all of mankind. “The plaintiff … was worried that the experiments could produce so-called ‘black holes’ which could eventually lead to the destruction of all life on Earth,” the court said in its ruling. “Objectively, there is no evidence to doubt the correctness of these safety reports nor was any conclusive evidence presented.”
This is not this German lady’s first attempt at shutting down CERN over the threat of a manmade black hole. Her case started at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. That court also failed to see the sense in her Armageddon scenario. CERN’s scientists do run some pretty serious scientific experiments at the giant lab near Geneva, Switzerland, but creating black holes with their Large Hadron Collider is not one of them.
Believe it or not, this kind of thing happens all the time. It seems to be a fairly well developed conspiracy theory that CERN scientists will inadvertently create mini black holes while they’re smashing atoms together at high speed. Back in 2008, CERN was dealing with a couple of cases from people worried about the end of the world. One of them, Professor Otto Rössler, a German chemist at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, took his case to the European Court of Human Rights and argued that CERN was violating the right to life under the European Convention of Human Rights.
“CERN itself has admitted that mini black holes could be created when the particles collide, but they don’t consider this a risk,” he said. “My own calculations have shown that it is quite plausible that these little black holes survive and will grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside. I have been calling for CERN to hold a safety conference to prove my conclusions wrong but they have not been willing.” For what it’s worth, CERN does have an FAQ on their site about black holes.
Just like the German judges did this week, the European Court of Human Rights rejected Rössler’s request for a hearing about his black hole theory. A Federal District court did the same thing with a case filed by an American and a Spaniard who also thought the world was going to end, starting in Geneva.
So now that we’ve got three cases up and three cases down, all backed with a mountain of research that says fears are categorically unfounded, can we all chill out about the black hole threat at CERN? Those guys have better things to do than brush off conspiracy theorists — like win an upcoming Nobel Prize.
Media coverage for High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions Experiment @ CERN / BNL:-
The safety concerns regarding the LHC collisions have attracted widespread media attention.[38][54] Various widely circulated newspapers have reported doomsday fears in connection with the collider, including The Times,[55] The Guardian,[56] The Independent,[57] The Sydney Morning Herald,[58] and Time.[59] Among other media sources, CNN mentioned that "Some have expressed fears that the project could lead to the Earth's demise,"[60] but it assured its readers with comments from scientists like John Huth, who said that it was "baloney".[60] MSNBC said that, "there are more serious things to worry about"[61] and allayed fears that "the atom-smasher might set off earthquakes or other dangerous rumblings".[61] The results of an online survey it conducted "indicate that a lot of [the public] know enough not to panic".[61] The BBC stated, "the scientific consensus appears to be on the side of CERN's theorists"[62] who say the LHC poses "no conceivable danger".[62] Brian Greene in the New York Times reassured readers by saying, "If a black hole is produced under Geneva, might it swallow Switzerland and continue on a ravenous rampage until the Earth is devoured? It’s a reasonable question with a definite answer: no."[63]
The tabloids also covered the safety concerns. The Daily Mail produced headlines such as "Are we all going to die next Wednesday?"[64] and "End of the world postponed as broken Hadron Collider out of commission until the spring".[65] The Sun quoted Otto Rössler saying, "The weather will change completely, wiping out life. There will be a Biblical Armageddon."[66] After the launch of the collider, it had a story entitled, "Success! The world hasn't ended".[67]
On 10 September 2008, a 16-year-old girl from Sarangpur, Madhya Pradesh, India committed suicide, having become distressed about predictions of an impending "doomsday" made on an Indian news channel (Aaj Tak) covering the LHC.[68]
After the dismissal of the federal lawsuit, The Daily Show's correspondent John Oliver interviewed Walter L. Wagner, who declared that he believed the chance of the LHC destroying the Earth to be 50%, since it will either happen or it won't.[69][70]
"The LHC will continue to run, and the LHC will continue to be a very, very big part of the particle physics program for the next 15 or 20 years, primarily in finding out more about the Higgs boson," says Terry Wyatt, a professor of physics at the University of Manchester and an attendee of the strategy symposium. "One of the main points of consensus that emerged from this meeting was that upgrading the LHC to what we're calling the High Luminosity LHC will take us through 2030 or so."
If we speak about technicians, provided that safety measures are absent, then, yes maybe will be proved a dangerous job. But the interesting thing was upon the activation of last CERN version, when many people claimed that a mini black hole could be have created and destroy Earth and other catastrophe theories. Of course nothing happened, so this could be a signal for the non validity of the so broadly accepted spacetime curvature theory of gravity....