So, apparently the multinational Large Hadron Collider has been tested for the first time earlier this morning.
For those of you who don’t know, the Large Hadron Collider is essentially a big, snazzy tunnel under the Swiss/French border that is able to rapidly fire atoms at each other, thus replicating the conditions of the theorized Big Bang that most believe created our universe.
Opponents of the Large Hadron Collider worked effortlessly to have the thing not built at all; and when it was built, they lobbied to have it destroyed. Apparently, some people believe that the Large Hadron Collider has the potential to tear open a black hole that would suck up the planet and everything around it.
This is some pretty Star Trek-esque stuff going on up in hurr.
John Huth, a Harvard prof. and scienmatist who works on and with the collider, denounced the threat of a black hole as “Baloney!” and said that even if a black hole were to be created, it would be small.
“The gravitational force is so weak that you’d have to wait many, many, many, many, many lifetimes of the universe before one of these things could [get] big enough to even get close to being a problem,”
he said.
Sounds promising, Dr. Huth. /sarcasm.
Personally, I find this project a gross waste of funds that could be better spent on issues like alleviating poverty, ensuring that the social programs of Europe can continue to exist, and providing media campaigns to combat issues like racism, sexism, “Islamophobia,” and so forth. It’s rediculous to try and discover “where we came from,” because I believe that even if we do learn all there is to know about our Universe, it means very little if we as a society don’t even know how to care for the old and infirm, the weak, the disadvantaged.
It’s a shame all these funds were blown on the frickin’ modern-day equivalent of the Tower of Babel, and not spent in a more productive, fiscally-responsible way.
5 Comments
September 10, 2008 at 8:39 pm
MAYBE… just maybe… it’ll create a black hole large enough to suck up the Large Hadron Collider. That would be interesting.
September 11, 2008 at 5:51 am
End of the World is Nigh. get drunk and eat Pizza. http://muzzerino.blogspot.com/2008/09/end-of-world-postponed.html
September 11, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Pizza and beer does sound good right about now.
September 11, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I agree, it’s probably a waste of money, but I also find it very interesting, and no way it’s gonna destory the world who ever thought that would happen is just crazy… I’d be quite excited if it did farther our knowledge of how the world was born and such though.
September 11, 2008 at 9:31 pm
And god damn it Jordan get around to addin’ Intense Debate up in hurr!