Sci-Fi Comes to Life

[JadziaKathryn]

Check out this article on doomsday fears over particle collider. It sounds like the plot of a (probably sub-par) sci-fi novel from the 70s.

The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

[Asso]

Mh!
Men (and women even more) are hard.
Maybe even too hard.

[Elessar]

Yeah, this stuff has been around for awhile and it's always good for a laugh (sorry if I offend) but it's irritating to me that this might actually have gained enough credibility to delay the project. The scientific community has been waiting for this thing for like 15 years and like 5,000 physicists from 100 countries have staked their careers, their lives, and nobels on this thing coming to life in the next year. 97% of the scientific community believes that this device is going to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe - the other 3% (about the same people who believe the Earth is actually a quasipolygon and pi is equal to 3.200) think it'll end the world. People also said that if a human rode on a locomotive at speeds in excess of 45 mph that our blood would boil... This is ridiculous nonesense.

Still, gotta love it when Michio Kaku is provoked:

"We see no evidence of this bizarre theory," he said. "Once in a while, we trot it out to scare the pants off people. But it's not serious."

Talking about strangelets

[JadziaKathryn]

about the same people who believe the Earth is actually a quasipolygon

Dare I ask what that means?

I would like to point out, however, that even I know pi is 3.14........

[justTripn]

I'd always taken comfort in the cosmic ray argument--much more powerful rays hit us from space all the time and interact and we're still here. I didn't know there was a counterargument, but I'm still saying, I'm not afraid of the big bad particle colider. The picture of it looks like the opening scene of "Star Trek: First Contact"

[Elessar]

I'd always taken comfort in the cosmic ray argument--much more powerful rays hit us from space all the time and interact and we're still here. I didn't know there was a counterargument, but I'm still saying, I'm not afraid of the big bad particle colider. The picture of it looks like the opening scene of "Star Trek: First Contact"

Yeah, their counterargument sounds specious.

About the pi thing - there's some weird geometric cult of people who have their own entire definition of science and topology and crap. It's kind of like they define all these things in the Universe such that they're not wrong... they just make up ideas to redefine existing phenomena within their own construct... like the pi thing. They redefine spatial topology such that pi is exactly equal to 3.2. It's f'in weird.

Oh I found it. it's "The Timecube". You wanna see some cooks off their rockers:

http://www.timecube.com/

wow this guy has gotten even nuttier than last time I saw this crap.

Education actually
destroys the analytial Brain,
leaving only a single brain
perspective android servility.
Educators who suppress the
Harmonic Time Cube 4 Day
4 corner Earth simultaneous
rotation deserve hanging, for
ONEism threatens humanity.