Quote Originally Posted by Schmaven View Post
I think they just need to explain what they're doing better so people don't have to make their own assumptions as to what's going on. All debates over whether or not they should run the experiment would be easy to decide if everyone knew exactly what they're trying to do and what the risks are.
See, you're already talking about risks. There are no bloody risks, except maybe in a quench accident, which is basically taking the energy equivalent of a few sticks of TNT and releasing it in an explosion. But that's really all we're talking about. A few sticks of TNT is the sum total of all the energy in the LHC at any given time. The colliding particles have even less, at about the kinetic energy of a baseball.

Ah, but then you hear about these 'micro-singularities' and 'strangelets' and so on. But let's think critically for a moment, if possible. How the fuck do you know about strangelets in the first place? Oh yeah, because they were predicted by particle physicists. How do you know about singularities? Did you discover them in your personal studies of daytime TV? No. Physicists discovered them. Now let me ask you this: who are the ones telling you these things are going to end the world? Not particle physicists, or at least not active, working (published) physicists.

So, to briefly summarize, the guys that actually know what the fuck they're talking about and actually discovered the goddamn things are telling you there's no danger, and the guys that know dick all about physics are telling you you're gonna die in a few days. And you're listening to the guys that know dick all?