So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
This could be the end of everything. The LHC goes online tomorrow morning, so smoke 'em if you got 'em. We will, quite literally, be unleashing forces that we do not understand. We, as human beings, will be gambling with the highest stakes possible. We have decided that the small possibility of nonexistence for everyone and everything is worth...Knowledge. We don't know how small the possibility is that we will cease to exist sometime in the next few hours or days, or weeks. We don't know how great the knowledge that will be attained by rolling the dice that is a massive particle accelerator. Nobody is denying that a hungry black hole could emerge and quickly and neatly gobble us all up.
I've been having trouble concentrating today.
A nice couple a few years back decided to bet it all on some knowledge, and the story didn't have a happy ending.
The LHC is a particle accelerator located on the France/Switzerland border; it has been dubbed the largest, most expensive, most powerful experiment ever attempted, certainly dwarfing all particle colliders ever built before, both in terms of size and power.
Some experts fear that the risk of operating the LHC disproportionately outweighs anything science might gain from this experiment. It is not possible to know what the outcome of the experiment will be, but even CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientists concede that there is a real possibility of creating destructive theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes, strangelets and deSitter space transitions. These events have the potential to fundamentally alter matter and destroy our planet.
http://lhcdefense.org/
This could be the end of everything. The LHC goes online tomorrow morning, so smoke 'em if you got 'em. We will, quite literally, be unleashing forces that we do not understand. We, as human beings, will be gambling with the highest stakes possible. We have decided that the small possibility of nonexistence for everyone and everything is worth...Knowledge. We don't know how small the possibility is that we will cease to exist sometime in the next few hours or days, or weeks. We don't know how great the knowledge that will be attained by rolling the dice that is a massive particle accelerator. Nobody is denying that a hungry black hole could emerge and quickly and neatly gobble us all up.
I've been having trouble concentrating today.
A nice couple a few years back decided to bet it all on some knowledge, and the story didn't have a happy ending.
The LHC is a particle accelerator located on the France/Switzerland border; it has been dubbed the largest, most expensive, most powerful experiment ever attempted, certainly dwarfing all particle colliders ever built before, both in terms of size and power.
Some experts fear that the risk of operating the LHC disproportionately outweighs anything science might gain from this experiment. It is not possible to know what the outcome of the experiment will be, but even CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientists concede that there is a real possibility of creating destructive theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes, strangelets and deSitter space transitions. These events have the potential to fundamentally alter matter and destroy our planet.
http://lhcdefense.org/
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