Anyone worried about the Hadron Collider reboot ?

[Pogle]

'fraid I'm quite geeky about the whole thing and find it fascinating, was very dissappointed about it failing last time.

[stingman123]

You can get sucked into extinction free on the NHS? Sign me up!

Hey, I never said it was for free, pay yer taxes!

[NotAllThere]

...Is anyone worried that this experiment may create something destructive such as a 'quantum vaccum' or a 'mini black hole' ...

Every day, cosmic rays collide with particles in the earth's atmosphere, with an energy many times that attainable by the LHC. This has been going on for millions of years. Yet here we are.

No. I'm not the slightest bit worried.

I'm more worried about the general public's attitude to what they term "so-called" experts, and how easily they are manipulated into fear frenzies.

[Moscow Mule]

It's a multi-bullion dollar project - it's bound to fail.

It's just the mode of failure that will be interesting.

I also love the idea that the Higgs Boson is so abhorrent to nature that it can come back in time and stop itself from being created - it's like a Doctor Who plot...

[DaveB]

It's a multi-bullion dollar project - it's bound to fail.

It's just the mode of failure that will be interesting.

I also love the idea that the Higgs Boson is so abhorrent to nature that it can come back in time and stop itself from being created - it's like a Doctor Who plot...

But still more plausible than the plot of Angels and Demons...

[AlfredJPruffock]

Labour will win the next election.

Invest in vaseline chaps.

In retrospect Labour's election victory in 2010 can be attributed to the following factors

1 Regain of Labour's strategic base in Scotland from the SNP
2 Tory partys 'austerity' policy and the erosion of the Tory vote from other partys on the right eg BNP
3 Economic recovery and housing market improvement
4 The unexpected return of Tony Blair to the Labour Party

[tenpin]

I remember reading somewhere that there have been hundreds of black holes discovered in the universe, but no intelligent life, and that maybe the ultimate sign of intelligence in a species is that it can create a black hole...

[eliquant]

I remember reading somewhere that there have been hundreds of black holes discovered in the universe, but no intelligent life, and that maybe the ultimate sign of intelligence in a species is that it can create a black hole...

hence the trap....

[Diestl]

That's right, splitting the atom had hardly any dangerous repercussions. Oh, wait.

Is anyone else here a physicist or mathematician by trade/education?

So the scientist that first split the atom destroyed the earth, must have missed that one, oh wait.. it never happened. Go to top of the list.

[HairyArsedBloke]

In retrospect Labour's election victory in 2010 can be attributed to the following factors

1 Regain of Labour's strategic base in Scotland from the SNP
2 Tory partys 'austerity' policy and the erosion of the Tory vote from other partys on the right eg BNP
3 Economic recovery and housing market improvement
4 The unexpected return of Tony Blair to the Labour Party

BNP are not 'on the right' - they are simply Old Labour + racism. That is why the Labour party are so afraid of them; it's where their white, lower class workers go having been shafted too much. Conservative voters defect to UKIP.