Thread: May 2008 (LHC) Particle Accelerator - Miracle or Catastrophe?

The letter below was written by none other than Dr. Walter Wagner.

Wow! Really? The Doctor Wagner!?!

I don't think anybody on the planet had any idea that a Walter Wagner existed to be honest, with the possible exception of the people reading this thread; but it's a funny name.

Pointless Post Exhibit A:

Originally Posted by Xei

Wow! Really? The Doctor Wagner!?!

I don't think anybody on the planet had any idea that a Walter Wagner existed to be honest, with the possible exception of the people reading this thread; but it's a funny name.

Originally Posted by Xei

Wow! Really? The Doctor Wagner!?!

I don't think anybody on the planet had any idea that a Walter Wagner existed to be honest, with the possible exception of the people reading this thread; but it's a funny name.

Is it really worth making a post showing you being that cynically proud for nothing? It doesn't help people's outlook of you...

C'mon now, just leggo that ego...



I think the point Jeff was illustrating is there is debate amongst fairly knowledgeable people in the field to cause a reasonable enough question regarding the machine's activation.

Originally Posted by SolSkye

I think the point Jeff was illustrating is there is debate amongst fairly knowledgeable people in the field to cause a reasonable enough question regarding the machine's activation.

Thank you SolSkye, and you're right...that's exactly what I was doing. Just trying to keep both sides weighed evenly by providing more information. Personally speaking, I would love for them to throw the switch, just to see what will happen.

"What does this button do?"

The point is that if you say that something is written by 'none other than X' then you are giving the impression that X is especially authoritative.

Obviously.

Giving false impressions - which was what that was - is not fair. Who is Doctor Wanger..? Does he study physics?

And why is there a walking waffle?

Originally Posted by Xei

The point is that if you say that something is written by 'none other than X' then you are giving the impression that X is especially authoritative.

Obviously.

Giving false impressions - which was what that was - is not fair. Who is Doctor Wanger..? Does he study physics?

And why is there a walking waffle?

In July, 1999 Scientific American published two highly-edited letters written by physicists Walter L. Wagner and Franck Wilczek in the Letters to the Editors section pertaining to theoretical particles that might be created by colliders. At that time, the LHC was still on the drawing board, and the RHIC [Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider], some 30-fold lower in energy than the LHC, was nearing completion....

Don't question the walking waffle.

Okay, so he's one of the tens of thousands of people with a degree in physics... hardly a superstar?

He didn't turn up on Google, anyway.