Comments on: On the radio today, CERN LHC debate & Liz Mair of RNC

By: thegoodguynet

thegoodguynet — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:27:56 +0000

The scientists involved in the LHC experiment have admitted to not knowing what the results will be - whether they will find the Higgs bosons that they are looking for.

Correct me if I'm wrong - RESULTS is only half the synonym of the word OUTCOME. The other half is CONSEQUENCES.

If they are unsure of the results, how can they claim anything regarding consequences.

The truth is-- they don't know what the OUTCOME will be - the results and CONSEQUENCES.

The truth is - scientific experiments can and have gone wrong in the past. That is why we use guinea pigs.

But in the LHC experiment the guinea pig is not a lab mouse. It's the planet Earth.

Claiming that they can "control" it is beyond comprehension to me - when they DON'T KNOW THE OUTCOME.

They say the ODDS are like winning the lotto. Well every week a lotto winner (sometimes "winners") are announced.

And the "odds" can only be talked about if you base it on specific numerical permutations/and probabilities -- how can they when THEY DON'T KNOW?

World War I and World War II evidenced the human race's capacity in slipping into the rabbit hole of collective madness.

There may be no World War III, but the LHC experiment will do.

Remember lone and persecuted Galileo against ALL the other scientists/astronomers?

By: WXyzzzzz

WXyzzzzz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:39:15 +0000

CERN judging their own LHC is safe is like a drunk deciding he's all right to drive... with 6,700,000,000 passengers.
Who cares about a Higgs Boson particle or some quark gluon soup except a handful of frustrated geeks who have run out of ideas and have to experiment with forces they don't even understand. These freaking physicists waste money and energy time and time again building atom smasher after atom smasher and end up with more questions, not answers. Now they've built one so powerful they say themselves it will create mini black holes at the rate of one per second! Which would change your life more; knowing they found some particle or getting crushed and sucked into a black hole along with everyone and every thing you ever cared about?
That sound like a good risk vs. benefit to you?!? Just because you can't wrap your mind around it does not mean it can't happen.
See for yourself;
http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm
http://www.LHCDefense.org/
http://www.LHCFacts.org
http://www.SaneScience.org/
Popular Mechanics - "World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle'" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme...

By: Jazz

Jazz — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:50:01 +0000

Hey, you schedule the guests when you can get them.

“We go to radio with the guests we have, not the guests we might wish we have.”

- Rumsfeld

By: mikkel

mikkel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:31:01 +0000

That is a hilarious juxtaposition of interviews. I'm more worried about the campaign season creating a black hole than CERN.