Woman tries to shut down Large Hadron Collider over apocalypse fears

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction. The country's highest court said that the woman — whom it didn't identify — had failed to demonstrate any connection between experiments at the CERN collider outside Geneva and the apocalypse. The Federal Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's appeal because she was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about." "The overwhelming scientific opinion is that the experiments carried out at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) present no dangers," the court ruled. The scientists' holy grail is to find a theorised component called the Higgs Boson, commonly called the "God Particle", which would explain how particles acquire mass. It was shut down again in December, this time to ready it for collisions

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