Genuis. Now, the prospect of the LHC scares the p*ss out of me too. As a subscriber to New Scientist I get to read about all the hilarious possibly-world-ending japes that those whacky guys in white coats get up to (those little imps). The LHC is a hilarious example of blowing £2.6 billion on a 17-mile-long particle accelerator (Great Scott!) to smash tiny particles into teeny, tiny bits at speeds that would make Doc Brown get a wet patch in his tweed.
The fears are that a) it could generate a black hole that will suck the Earth in on itself. Dyson have already applied to use the technology in their new vaccuum cleaner by the way. Or b) it could convert all matter (that's you, me, Mr T and without doubt all the kittens in the world) into strange matter (cue science-fiction wooo-ahhhh-wooooo music) which would be a bugger because no-one knows what that would be like and it's almost certain that Snickers would no longer be as tasty, although perhaps they'd taste as good as they did when they were Marathon.
Point is, no-one has a Scooby-Doo what the bloody hell will happen. That's quite exciting to me. Whilst I'd miss my girlfriend, my family and friends, the prospect of eliminating all the other crap in the world (think Big Brother, Paris Hilton and the London Metro free-paper) is exciting to me.
These guys have taken their fear to the next level and decided to sue the LHC (can you sue a machine? Maybe that's what we need to do when Skynet gets built).
Read about it here.
The fears are that a) it could generate a black hole that will suck the Earth in on itself. Dyson have already applied to use the technology in their new vaccuum cleaner by the way. Or b) it could convert all matter (that's you, me, Mr T and without doubt all the kittens in the world) into strange matter (cue science-fiction wooo-ahhhh-wooooo music) which would be a bugger because no-one knows what that would be like and it's almost certain that Snickers would no longer be as tasty, although perhaps they'd taste as good as they did when they were Marathon.
Point is, no-one has a Scooby-Doo what the bloody hell will happen. That's quite exciting to me. Whilst I'd miss my girlfriend, my family and friends, the prospect of eliminating all the other crap in the world (think Big Brother, Paris Hilton and the London Metro free-paper) is exciting to me.
These guys have taken their fear to the next level and decided to sue the LHC (can you sue a machine? Maybe that's what we need to do when Skynet gets built).
Read about it here.
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