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About the LHC--the Large Hadron Collider, which is located in Cern, on the Swiss/French border. Scientists and the curious, at Brain Meta, are keeping an eye on it. There are 15 pages of comments, critical and otherwise at:
http://brainmeta.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19519&st=420

BTW, to the best of my knowledge, Rick is a competent physicist.
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BTW 2, any threads, here, on this topic by physicists in the know? Is the project worth the cost? And the risk?

I doubt that it is worth the cost and I thought that the risk had already been taken.

Opinion:

Masters of the relevant sciences and technologies are, of course, best qualified to provide meaningful comment on the safety of the project. Anything the rest of us say about it isn't worth the joules it takes to type it. We may trust the experts or not, but let it be on a rational basis. Let's, also, be wary of the legions of self-proclaimed experts who are actually not experts at all.

Is LHC worth the cost? If the world were to end within 30 years, perhaps not; but I strongly suspect that in the longer term the knowledge accumulated from this resource will contribute significantly to the foundation of future technology - technology which will be a major factor in enhancing our descendants' quality of life and potential to survive.

Safety is the main concern of LHC experiments. You can be perfectly sure, LHC experiments are safe because of many theories. After all, the main purpose of these experiments is to verify these theories.



Isn't the only purpose of LHC to verify it's own safety at the very end? Is it really enough for everybody?