TFTP (Thanks For The Ping) ... “Whatever the collider will do, they said, Nature has already done many times over.” Yes, there are black holes and no we didn’t make them, so Nature ‘probably’ did. It is not comforting to know the men who lust after the LHC as their ‘research tool’ are the ones reassuring folks that the project cannot generate deadly worst scenario consequences. As one poster mentioned above, that they don’t know all the effects is why they call it research, in many cases. With the LHC, the object is to confirm their theories and ‘perhaps’ generate a particle to fill in the blank in the standard model, perhaps. With the fate of our planet perhaps weighing in the balance, I can think of other ways and reasons to delay trying this trick on ‘Mother Nature’ ... if ‘nature’ had made what these folks seek, wouldn’t they have another way to verify it instead of taking this gamble while telling us it isn’t a gamble?
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