If you believe the doomsayers - Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo, promise scientists

The Times ^ | 9/6/2008 | Joanna Sugden

[dr_who]

Well, what’s it good for then?! Gee whiz!

[Tublecane]

That machine reminds me of the Death Star in Return of the Jedi, as Lando Calrissian was zooming through it on the Millenium Falcon.

[Tublecane]

“turned to a pile of grey goo”

How can they be sure it’ll be grey? Why not brown?

[Libertarian4Bush]

I don’t think the world is going to end, BUT...

... if it’s so safe, why is it buried under a mountain range?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Just curious, but is the scheduled start date in the year 2012?

[tanuki]

So should we start building fires and sacrificing virgins?

[Robert A Cook PE]

The Luddites are among us.

And Gaia is their green god.

[Constitution Day]

[coconutt2000]

My doomsayer personality whispers to me, “There’s a reason why there’s no evidence of intelligent life in the rest of the galaxy. At some point every species reaches a point where to better understand the Universe they build a device. A Large Hardon Collider to be precise. From that moment on, their time as a species is limited. Within moments of flipping the device on, their planet is destroyed, and their part of the galaxy goes silent once again.”

[eyedigress]

Is this the same one that was funded then removed from Texas 20 years ago?

[CE2949BB]

Goo? That’s the Big Fear of nanotech. The Big Fear with the LHC is a blackhole.

Ain’t nuthin’ gunna happen, except kickass science.

[diverteach]

This is one heck of a big project at a HUGE expense for something nobody is %100 sure of what it’ll do.

In the end what good will it accomplish? Nothing! How any results can definatively prove the “Big Bang Theory” is ridiculous.

My bet is that IF IT WORKS it’ll just raise more questions.

Leave the switch off and read the bible, the world was CREATED people.

[bruinbirdman]

What do Texans know that we don't?

.yitbos

[mukraker]

No, not gee whiz - cheeze whiz - plenty of power to make it smooth and creamy, no more lumps

[LomanBill]

>>if it’s so safe, why is it buried under a mountain range?

Maybe to isolate it from outside radiation sources?

[eyedigress]

It’s a cowboy thang!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider

[dr_who]

I HATE cheeze whiz.

[Libertarian4Bush]

Maybe to isolate it from outside radiation sources? good point. btw, there are some interesting youtube "simulations" of the catastrophes that people expect... ranging from CGI to live action, scientific to political.

[mukraker]

Actually, if you listen to Steve Quayle, this project is part of the Stargate type projects...