Scientist at particle collider suspected of terrorist links

[efq]

A physicist at the facility that houses the world's largest particle collider in Switzerland has been arrested on suspicion of links to terrorism, according to officials.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known by the French acronym CERN, said French officials arrested the man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links.
The Large Hadron Collider, which lies underground near the Franco-Swiss border, is a powerful particle collider that aims to re-create conditions in the universe not long after the Big Bang.
CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism. He had been at CERN since 2003, officials said.
The LHCb experiment where he worked is the smallest of a series of installations along the 27-kilometre circular tunnel that houses the facility.
"None of our research has potential for military application, and all our results are published openly in the public domain," CERN said in a statement Friday.
Collider to resume operations in November

The collider was expected to resume operations in November after a year-long delay because of a problem with some of its electrical connections.
The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous.
Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth.
Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on."
The collider is designed, however, to work at high energies. When it relaunches in November, the collider is expected to begin running at 3.5 tera-electron volts (TeV), or 3.5 trillion electron volts. It was built to move particles at twice those energies.
The accelerator is designed to smash subatomic particles into each other at high speeds in order to break them down and allow the discovery of smaller, more fundamental particles.
The prosecutor's office in the Isere region of France said the case has been transferred to the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor's office.

Its a bit worrying how people like that get to be apart of such big experiments :S

[scottish]

not rli terrorists can get anywhere so y wudnt they b able to work for them and its suspected not got hard evidence proving hes a terrorist so?

[Accipiter]

A physicist at the facility that houses the world's largest particle collider in Switzerland has been arrested on suspicion of links to terrorism, according to officials.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known by the French acronym CERN, said French officials arrested the man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links.
The Large Hadron Collider, which lies underground near the Franco-Swiss border, is a powerful particle collider that aims to re-create conditions in the universe not long after the Big Bang.
CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism. He had been at CERN since 2003, officials said.
The LHCb experiment where he worked is the smallest of a series of installations along the 27-kilometre circular tunnel that houses the facility.
"None of our research has potential for military application, and all our results are published openly in the public domain," CERN said in a statement Friday.
Collider to resume operations in November

The collider was expected to resume operations in November after a year-long delay because of a problem with some of its electrical connections.
The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous.
Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth.
Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on."
The collider is designed, however, to work at high energies. When it relaunches in November, the collider is expected to begin running at 3.5 tera-electron volts (TeV), or 3.5 trillion electron volts. It was built to move particles at twice those energies.
The accelerator is designed to smash subatomic particles into each other at high speeds in order to break them down and allow the discovery of smaller, more fundamental particles.
The prosecutor's office in the Isere region of France said the case has been transferred to the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor's office.

lol'd at that, no mention of what would happen when it builds full speed to create the particle a month after being switched on...

But tbh, if their was a real risk the government wouldn't go through with it, even though it is a billion pound project that tells us nothing but what we already know...

[Gullable]

i wish they wouldnt do this it gets me so worked up, im already worked up about 2012 i dont want the world to end.

[Ardemax]

im not being funny, but if they had been working there since 2003, surely they would've been acting slightly suspicious?

oh yeah

[efq]

i wish they wouldnt do this it gets me so worked up, im already worked up about 2012 i dont want the world to end.

LOL, every so many years they say the worlds going to end. Franchising like tshirts etc, its made up. It never happens, history shows that.

The particle collider hasn't been tested before and what they are doing does do something that isn't really possible without the latest technology, I the worst thing that I think that can go wrong is the machine blows up and the mountain collapses on them or something lmao.

[Ardemax]

the last thing that went wrong was a power failure or something

[efq]

the last thing that went wrong was a power failure or something

yeah, all that hype around the world and it cuts off. if i had been there, i would of pissed myself laughing.

[scottish]

yeah, all that hype around the world and it cuts off. if i had been there, i would of pissed myself laughing.

no you wouldn't, you'd be finding the closest laptop/computer to post the thread on habboxforum current affairs section.

on topic - i doubt the thing will end the world lolol

[efq]

no you wouldn't, you'd be finding the closest laptop/computer to post the thread on habboxforum current affairs section.

on topic - i doubt the thing will end the world lolol

Yeah, your little 'posting news' things are lame and not funny, so give it a rest cause its only you who finds it funny. Just because i'm a little older and mature as well as watch and understand the news more than you, that I post it is none of your concern, so instead of stalking me all the time, go outside for once.