I saw a documentary which showed that matter doesnīt actually exists, that atoms contain no matter just energetic particles and all that.
So even if the LHC goes pear shaped and tentacle ridden brain sucking monsters run around sucking folk into their black hole mouths, it wonīt really matter will it.
I'm trying to be positive about the whole thing, but the costs of operating this effing thing as opposed to feeding starving people is deplorable.
Are they trying to discover a new form of energy? I mean if the expenditure is nothing more than some eggheads idea of finding out if there are particles smaller than corpuscles, someone needs to be arrested, or worse.
It isn't money that would have gone to feed the starving anyway, unless you want to electrocute or crush them. Discovering the nature of new fundamental particles has been on of the major bases in advancing science (and thus technology and thus the ability to feed starving people) since Dalton's atomic theory.
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Advances in science might reach a point where people would no longer starve, or poverty would be nonexistant. It's a very Star Trek way of looking at it, I know, but it's possible.
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My issue with this is that it's irresponsible science. If I wanted to conduct an experiment and there was a chance it could blow up a city block then I would be stopped. How is this any different?
Because there is a very slim chance that something completely harmless might happen if the LHC malfunctions, and that's it. There's zero chance of anyone but the people operating it being hurt (and all of them have chosen to be there).
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I cant go with that zero chance thing but guessing its doubtful anything will happen but there is a chance something catastrophic could happen!
So Im gonna keep drinkin...lol
It's different because the probability of it creating a blackhole is nothing but crap spouted out by morons. Our atmosphere is bombarded by energized particles that are at a much higher energy state than what we can create with the LHC. Yet, we're still here.
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In case anyone's forgotten, we have laboratories that produce anti-matter. One particle of which, if escaped from containment, would be enough to destroy an area the size of New York City.
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Sep 10th, 2008 08:24 PM
Is that possible? 
