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From: Martin Brown on 21 Mar 2010 14:02
John wrote:
>
>> My philosophy is simple. If the world has ended and all is destroyed -
>> I won't worry about it. And if the world is not destroyed and all is
>> the same - I still won't worry about it.
>
> If the world is not destroyed and all is the same, it doesn't mean that you
> don't have a reason to be worried...Unless you just don't care about
> anything
> going on around you?

There have been delusional nutters claiming the world is going to end
for as long as anyone can remember. Very occasionally they are right in
some restricted sense - like Cassandra for instance in ancient Troy.

>
> What if you can prove that the experiments conducted at CERN can
> destroy the world? Will you worry about it then??

Iff I could prove it then yes. But some half baked lunatic nutters on
Usenet with delusions of adequacy is not going to cut the mustard.
Natural cosmic ray events with many times the energy have already
occurred in the vicinity of the Earth. The difference here is that at
CERN we can instrument them and see all the bits that come flying out.

Someone once unkindly described HEP as trying to understand the workings
of a pocket watch by smashing pairs of them together.

I just hope they do observe something new and interesting at these
energies. It is a huge investment to make only to be told - well we need
another one with twice the energy. But that is one likely outcome.
>
> PS: I'm not saying that the people who are against the CERN experiments
> are right, but I applaud that they care...

But they are hopelessly misguiding and so can be safely ignored.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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