Turn off the Large Hadron Collider to Save the World
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
We are thrilled to report that we need no longer worry about global warming or peak oil; we will all have been eaten by a black hole long before that. It is like Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Nine Billion Names of God; science going “oops” (there is always time to say oops) as the world comes to an end. Or before Almagordo, when Oppenheimer and everyone at Los Alamos was trying to calculate if setting off the A-bomb might actually set the entire atmosphere on fire. A group scientists are afraid that firing up the new $ 8 billion Large Hadron Collider at CERN might create a …
March 31 2008 03:03 pm | Environment
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