ll few months ago, Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho had complained to a judge of the State of Hawaii to ban experiments at LHC (which the U.S. government will contribute financially for a long time). Not surprisingly, Judge Helen Gillmore just dismiss these complainants.
The situation would be laughable if it had resulted in the death of a teenager in India and a wave of fear and irrational fears on the Web. Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho, who have filed complaints to stop the operation of the LHC, or have studied elementary particle physics and general relativity. Even if Wagner can claim some experience in nuclear safety, it is as if specialists in cosmetics wanted to give lessons on the effectiveness of a treatment against cancer of the brain to Nobel medicine.
That has not prevented the two men argued that the thousands of particle physicists and other researchers in general relativity, all agree there is no risk, did not really know what they're talking about.
The court in Honolulu and Judge Helen Gillmor, just make their decision on the complaint, filed against the U.S. government. Judge Gillmore did not even rely on government support provided by two Nobel Prize in Physics Sheldon Glashow and Frank Wilczek. It was enough to argue that on more than $ 4 billion spent over 20 years by the 60 countries that have contributed to the LHC, the approximately $ 531 million offered by the United States did not involve the jurisprudence of the National Environmental Policy Act to impose the cessation of LHC.
