| Collider can’t
cause cosmic calamity
Doomsday scenarios
involving the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider can’t happen, a
panel of physicists has concluded.
Further Readings:
Weiss, P. 1999.
Ion collider, doomsday fear rev up. Science News 156(Aug. 7):95.
The Committee
Report on Speculative Disaster Scenarios at RHIC can be found at the
Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Web site at http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/rhicreport.html,
or you can write to Mona S. Rowe at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
for additional information.
Sources:
Mona S. Rowe
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Media and Communications Office
P.O. Box 5000, Building 134
Upton, NY 11973-5000
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 17, October 23, 1999, p. 271. Copyright © 1999,
Science Service. |