Science sucks...potentially.
So did anybody see that episode of the Twilight Zone where physicists, heady with power and devoid of humility, created a machine capable of creating a black hole in a "controlled" environment. Suddenly, things go wrong and "pop" the world vanishes, destroying the entirety of our existence in a flash.
Ok, the premise is interesting until you change the "episode of the Twilight Zone" with "laboratory called Fermilab on the Swiss-Franco border" and then realize that the end result is only "a minute possibility". A minute possibility is quite unacceptable to me. You see, I'm attached to Earth, I live there. And it's also where myself and many friends and family, in fact, keep our stuff.
This poses the question, is it worth it? Many groups of scientists are in opposition to the start-up of The Large Hadron Supercollider even going so far as to file lawsuits against the facility to halt it's activities.
Though I am not in a position to really do more than write vitriolic rants capable of annoying people on par with a sand gnat, I am not comforted by this in the slightest as I, and many of my contemporaries, have noticed that science has developed an inadvertent "god complex" in recent years. That complex is a result of the western world's tendency to be overly analytical and ignore the "larger picture".
So, though it may not end the world to start up this supercollider, it very well could...no matter how minute the possibility. So I ask, is it worth it? All to discover how atoms get their mass?
Bad science, no donut.
Nick
Ok, the premise is interesting until you change the "episode of the Twilight Zone" with "laboratory called Fermilab on the Swiss-Franco border" and then realize that the end result is only "a minute possibility". A minute possibility is quite unacceptable to me. You see, I'm attached to Earth, I live there. And it's also where myself and many friends and family, in fact, keep our stuff.
This poses the question, is it worth it? Many groups of scientists are in opposition to the start-up of The Large Hadron Supercollider even going so far as to file lawsuits against the facility to halt it's activities.
Though I am not in a position to really do more than write vitriolic rants capable of annoying people on par with a sand gnat, I am not comforted by this in the slightest as I, and many of my contemporaries, have noticed that science has developed an inadvertent "god complex" in recent years. That complex is a result of the western world's tendency to be overly analytical and ignore the "larger picture".
So, though it may not end the world to start up this supercollider, it very well could...no matter how minute the possibility. So I ask, is it worth it? All to discover how atoms get their mass?
Bad science, no donut.
Nick