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From whatsnew@aps.org Fri Jul 23 18:03 MST 1999
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:39:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "What's New" <whatsnew@aps.org>
Subject: What's New for Jul 23, 1999
To: danmac@NAU.EDU
WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 23 Jul 99 Washington, DC
3. BANG! RHIC DOESN'T EVEN PERTURB LONG ISLAND. Could the "Big
Bang Machine," a.k.a. Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, produce
"perturbations of the universe"--maybe a black hole--and destroy
Earth? The Sunday Times of London reported that Brookhaven
director John Marburger had appointed a panel of physicists to
investigate. Not exactly. He asked them for a white paper
explaining why it's not a worry. In spite of millennium madness,
Marburger said this morning that the net effect has been very
positive. Reporters from around the world call to ask if there's
anything to the story, and end up learning about RHIC.
THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's
and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.)