Posted on 09/09/2008 7:03:36 PM PDT by buccaneer81
MIT physicist gets death threats over collider
September 9, 2008 01:19 PM
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Frank Wilczek, an MIT physicist and Nobel laureate, has received death threats from what he called "one disturbed individual," as the world's largest physics experiment is poised to come online tomorrow in Europe.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The Berkley trees are so yesterday...
I was thinking that maybe the collider was leaking the much lesser known “idiot particle” all over the place.
The media, however, has promulgated some rather bizarre and frightening scenerios.
that’s amazing!
i wonder when the “progressives” became reactionaries?
during lenin’s time technology was considered positively.
mao i remember reading long ago wanted all technology, so that humans were relieved of physical work.
but sometime before ayn rand wrote “the new left, the anti-industrial revolution” (essays of the early 1960’s),
the left became reactionaries.
Fear, like sex, sells.
Nuclear technology, be it weapons or power plants really seems to have driven the left over the edge.
good point.
jane fonda lost it!
I hadn’t seen or heard the term “Luddite” for 40 years since a lecture concerning the Industrial Revolution in
grad school. Thanks, I had to look it up!
Arrogant Euro-weenies, not content with having started two world wars, now seek to create a black hole.
Brilliant.
Being concerned about this irresponsible bit of idiocy, is hardly the concern of luddites.
These morons could end life on earth. Earth itself even.
Any of you scoffing at the critics, pro-life?...
6 billion of them, hang on whether these maroons have done their math right. And a theory, that a black hole, once created, will somehow “evaporate”.
If light itself cannot escape the gravity of a black hole,
how exactly can one “evaporate”?
Must admit, it’s freaking me out a bit too...
http://www.glennbeck.com/downloads/08/090908fusion.pdf
As usual, scientists are more interested in whether or not they CAN do something, rather than whether or not they SHOULD.
Why threaten death? If the wackos are right, we’ll all be dead tomorrow anyway.
We're still here. And we'll still be here tomorrow night if this test goes off.
If humanity is ever going to leave this solar system, we're going to need to learn a whole bunch of things. This is one of them. I approve of this endeavour wholeheartedly.
Their colliders have been getting progressively more powerful for more than 50 years. Why is it only now that people are suddenly getting worried about it?
People are afraid of the unknown..
Today I saw a van which burned to a crisp on the freeway.
Undoubtedly, yesterday the driver did not crash...
When the first railroads were being built in Britain in the 1830's and 1840's, it was postulated that man could not travel faster than 30 mph, lest he suffocate from the acceleration.
Our descendants will laugh at us in 200 years for fearing this experiment.
(or they won’t)...
Every day is unknown though. What’s different here is that we’re engaged in group-think. One guy claims that this could be the end of the world, and suddenly everyone is agreeing with him.
Well, tomorrow is the day.
It was nice knowing you all.
Bye
Jim was right all along.......
(as if I needed it - /s)
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