Are we risking our lives for science?
So I read this news article today:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_sci_big_bang_machine
It is about how Scientist are getting ready to test out the Large Hadron Collider again, after spending over a year fixing it from the last time they tried to use it. (Yes they have spent over $10 billion dollars on this thing and new really got it to work yet, surprisingly this is European funded and not a waste of our money.) Of Course we here in the US were going to build a bigger one in Texas but canceled the funding in 1993 when we realized it might not be of that much scientific value… or maybe kill us all?
Anyway I know Cracked.com did a report once about how it could be one of the most dangerous tools in science, If I find the article I’ll link it here later, but I want you to just think about this for a minute… The goal is to recreate the circumstances in which the big bang occurred. You know.. the big bang, what they think was the cause of the whole universe… Anyone else find this a little more dangerous than what its worth?
The idea is for this to be a controlled experiment that will probably take place in January of 2010.
Or maybe this is what the Mayan people where talking about in 2012???
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