Bird foils Large Hadron Collider from destroying us all
Mishap is latest in a series of unfortunate events that have befallen world's largest particle accelerator.
MYSTERIOUS WAYS: A worker walks past a giant photograph of the CMS detector of the Large Hadron Collider at an exhibit in Berlin. (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) 
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What a waste of bread.
A reason that there is no provable trace of alien life form visiting this planet could be because the Aliens construct an HLC and it works by converting their whole planet into a plasma-gluon soup. Seriously, an HLC cannot do that. Neither can it create black holes that devour the Earth, What it can do is to create a disaster that is beyond expectations of our current theoretical physics.
Energy is not neutral, you can't play games with it. If people want to know more about particles,energy etc they need to understand that giant machines will not give them the answers they are looking for, but meditation might, followed by an exploration of string theory and quantum physics.
The LHC is obviously irresponsible to anyone with half a brain.
All it takes is one black hole.
People have theories about what will happen during these collisions in the particle accelerator. These theories will be validated or invalidated based on the results. Science is the process of conducting the experiments and observing the results. If you want to boil it down to basic language and ignore the meaning of the words involved, OK... Science is always "right" because scientists do not rely on assumptions or beliefs, but rather accumulate knowledge based on observable results.
All the comments are witty but they lack common sense and a constructive criticism.
Like referring persons to a bit more understanding ideas like the ones at
"The elegant Universe" so that we may get better input from more persons.
JHV
People who think that this experiment is either useless or actually dangerous are among the top runners for the saddest and most ignorant people to ever walk the planet Earth. The whole black-hole thing has already been refuted by the world's leading scientists but it certainly is fun for the simple-minded to play with, so I'll leave it at that. When we ask questions and attempt to discover the deepest secrets about atoms, subatomic particles, the origins of matter, energy and physics, we are.... More
don't refer to the rest of us as simple minded you pompous ***. I do not care what the world's leading scientists have to say, they have not proven a damn thing other than their big $10Billion machine does not work. You have no right to make the statements you did about the rest of us who take the time to hear both sides of the debate no matter how nonsensical you perceive it to be. And as for the Wars in Iraq and anywhere else in the world; we are spending money to ensure some madman does.... More
Well, how it happened is beyond you because you are misrepresenting the facts and don't understand what you are talking about... which doesn't stop you. A baguette was dropped into an electricity substation and shorted the power to part of the system. A bird didn't drop a piece of bread in to the machine, that's just misrepresenting the facts. But it's fun frightening the ignorant with half truths isn't it?
The CERN-Collider is failing as nearly all the Europrojects, where to satisfy the nationalistic ego of the Engineers and scientist of many countries the results are always inpefect compromises and overcomplivated solutions, as well as stisfy he politician by the mania to build "bigger" as the US does. (see Airbus 380, , even if there only 2 countries, france and Germany, are involved)
And I ask myself: why extreme stupid people is given access to the media to scare grandmothers with.... More
Ironically, most of the science has never considered the longer term perspective of space or time. Eg. DDT that inspired a nobel prize is within 50 years the biggest bane for continent size land-mass. Nuclear arsenel, Communism (Failed), Capitalism (Also failed due to sub-prime crisis!) are some clear examples. Our society is SHORT-FOCUSSED with just the Annual Performance Appraisal, Pay rise, couple of International Publications as the guiding force. It took USA 100+ years to scientifically.... More
We have nothng to worry about. It's all coming together via the Cern Zoo.
"The collisions will occur in an environment kept at temperatures lower than that found in the most empty and vacuous place in the Universe"
"vacuous" is right ;-)
this is the main body of a text I posted on another site. There were a few exceptionally good posts posted by others so heres the link http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/critics-of-god.html
CERN's safety reports: none of the scientists involved are independent of their beliefs, faith and total
Get a job or read a book about science, Answers In Genesis doesn't count.
Except you're a moron.
The whole experiment is for pure science meaning it is not designed to produce anything of practical use. Simple as that.
The collider has just as much to do with proving science wrong as it has with proving science with all of its guesswork, paradox and strange unexplained anomalies is right.
Naturally if there was the slightest risk the science is wrong and the machine is unsafe they wouldn't run it, right? Wrong! Too many reputations ride on the expense of the experiment now just.... More
