Scientists are getting death threats over Large Hadron Collider

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The massive Large Hadron Collider in Geneva on Wednesday will begin to send atomic particles to circulate around a 17-mile circumference tunnel next and will smash together at speeds close to the speed of light to mimic the early time period after “Big Bang”.

Many outsiders have fear that LHC will cause a catastrophe in the event of an accident and some even worry the world might end because of it. Some of have gone too far by sending death threats to scientists in LHC.

American Nobel prize winner in Physics, Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received death threats from them. Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University called these death threats silly. He told Telegraph: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat."

James Gillies, the head of public relations get numerous phone calls, crying and pleading for the LHC project to stop.

He also receives hundreds of emails requesting him to give them assurances that the world will not end. Some are more threatening. One emailed Gilled with the following statement:

"You are evil and dangerous and you are going to destroy the world."

"I find myself getting slightly angry, not because people are getting in touch but the fact they have been driven to do that by what is nonsense. What we are doing is enriching humanity, not putting it at risk."

And a few have even sought legal advices to stop the LHC project.

The LHC project was initiated in 1994 by the multi-national European nuclear research organization (CERN) and since then they have faced mounting protests.

Many emails cite the following book for their concerns:

Our Final Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? By Lord Rees, astronomer royal and president of the Royal Society.

Lord Rees however has no objections about this project. He told Telegraph:

My book has been misquoted in one or two places...I would refer you to the up-to-date safety study.

The LHC scientists have issued a new updated report today that provides comprehensive evidence to confirm that nature’s own cosmic rays produce more powerful atomic particle collisions than the one is planned in LHC.

The report, 'Review of the Safety of LHC Collisions', published in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, proves that if particle collisions at the LHC had the power to destroy the Earth, we would never have been given the chance to worry about the LHC. Regular interactions with more energetic cosmic rays would already have destroyed the Earth.

The Safety Assessment Group said the following to reassure everyone:

Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programs on Earth - and the planet still exists.

Even if there is an explosion, the LHC has enough barriers to bear the impact. Europe has more stringent safety regulations than any other part of the world; they will make sure LHC meets all safety standards.