more LHC woes

[AtW]

Funny how someone who makes a living from technology all of a sudden becomes a Luddite.

My technology does not carry a risk of turning Earth into lifeless ball floating in cold space.

I guess one needs a small amount of brain cells to see the difference in terms of risk between what I do and what they do. Also cost of my work is not paid by taxpayers.

[Mich the Tester]

My technology does not carry a risk of turning Earth into lifeless ball floating in cold space.

No, but it risks turning CUK's inhabitants into the living dead.

[AtW]

No, but it risks turning CUK's inhabitants into the living dead.

This is the risk I am prepared to take, nobody would notice the difference in terms of quality of posts anyway...

[Moscow Mule]

You can't say it for sure - what they are trying to do is unexplored and they in their own words trying to recreate conditions that existed before or around Big Bang - this certainly does not sound like some cuddly fluffy animals.

I say give each of those bozos a million dollars to retire and write books how evil Govt did not allow them to conduct their research. Beats turning earth into new Sun or a blackhole

Even if it did create a black hole (extremely unlikely), the chances of it staying open are extremely unlikely cubed.

The potential benefits of this research FAR outweigh the risk of gravitational annihilation.

[AtW]

The potential benefits of this research FAR outweigh the risk of gravitational annihilation.

The risks are pretty clear - death of all humanity before it went proper to space.

What benefits EXACTLY?

[Moscow Mule]

What benefits EXACTLY?

Definites:
New techniques for analysis of terabytes of data

Maybes:
Understanding of the basis of sub-atomic particles

Long shots:
Free Energy


These are just for starters - there's probably 5-10 other reasons in each category.

[doodab]

Though considerably higher than the energies of previous accelerators, these energies are still far below those of the highest-energy cosmic-ray collisions that are observed regularly on Earth.

Collisions between particles with this sort of energy happen all the time. The point of the LHC is to let us control them and observe them in detail so that we can study them and learn from them, not to do something that hasn't occurred for 14 billion years and may result in the destruction of the known universe.

[AtW]

Definites:
New techniques for analysis of terabytes of data

Just terabytes? FFS, SKA deals with PETABYTES now.

[Moscow Mule]

Just terabytes? FFS, SKA deals with PETABYTES now.

FFS is that the best you can do?

[original PM]

it already has done all these things you all fear so much

you are just stuck in the event horizon and have not noticed.