Obligatory, waste of time "end of the world" article
Submitted by Tim on Wed, 10/09/2008 - 07:42.
I'd like to join everyone else in posting some completely worthless drivel about it being the end of the world today, ha ha ha, because they're switching on that big doughnut thing under Switzerland and it's completely hilarious.
I do this in the full understanding that actually they're only spinning the wheels on the LHC today, and they won't actually be colliding anything, opening any black holes, or doing anything remotely universe-stopping for at least another fortnight or so, if not far longer, thus rendering the whole fascination with today's event completely pointless.
Big bang FTW!
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All this to find a particle. Now I'm all for blue sky research, but what are they going to do with it if they isolate it?
Stephen Hawking says the wormhole 'fears' are cobblers and, somehow, I think he might know a bit more about such things that the media eh?
Personally I ain't fussed if we do get sucked into oblivion, since my life is essentially bollocks anyway. Sorry to all you folks who actually enjoy life.
Yesterday I saw someone
Yesterday I saw someone point out that the whole history of high energy particle physics is one of theory following experiment.
Every time they've built a new accelerator/collider they've discovered something they weren't expecting and had to improve the theories. I'd be willing to bet they don't find a Higgs Boson, but in about 5 years time, there'll be something fundementally new known. Be it quantum gravity, or sub quark particles, I don't know; That's why these things get built.
Plus it's well shiny.