Why I am joining the law suit to stop LHC
Just so that there is no confusion; this was a post for April 1, 2008, filed as an April Fool Joke.
There has always been a disclaimer at the bottom of the post.
<Posting on April 1st - filed under Physics Humor>
Just to reiterate, I fully and completely support LHC.
As an attorney and as a physicist, people have asked me about my views on the recent law suit to stop the Large Hadron Collider. In the law suit, a few concerned individuals have argued that LHC might create blackholes and endanger our planet, and hence any further work on LHC should be stopped.
I support the plaintiffs in this case and also plan to provide free legal services to them. I think this is the least I can do to help the humanity.
I am against LHC, not because I am afraid of micro-blackholes, or that some worm-hole will be created (I know these objects: I co-edited a book called Blackhole, wormholes and superstrings eons ago), I am against LHC because I do not want Higgs particle to be found, period. Life will be so boring if Higgs particle was indeed in the range that it is expected. I want physicists to keep struggling to find something beyond the God particle.
I would take the $8-10 Billion dollars that it is going to cost and get 100,000 more high energy theorists to start working on all the unsolved problems - I think the humanity will learn much more from 100,000 theorists then it will from LHC operations.
Physicists make it soooo easy to pursue these kinds of law suits because physicists are incapable of saying that something is "impossible". As the law suit says :"No absolute refutation of the adverse scenarios that have been described has yet been articulated”
I’ll give you a simple example, ask any person "what are the chances that you will win$10 Billion in a lottery by next month?" Answer would be "impossible, because no state/country offers $10B in lottery prizes and then on top of it, for me to win that prize is just not going to happen". Ask the same question to a physicist and chances are he/she will start calculating the chances of accumulating the powerball prize, buying all possible lottery tickets, chances that dollar will devalue so much that 1 Euro will be worth $1M and then come up with a probability that you will win $10 Billion next month. As I said, physicists are incapable of saying that something is impossible.
<Posting on April 1st - filed under Physics Humor>
April 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Sunny Kalara:” I plan to provide free legal services to them. I think this is the least I can do to help the humanity.”
Appreciate your sense of humor.
Sunny Kalara:” Ask the same question to a physicist and chances are he/she…
The answer is 0. It is not only possible, it is certain. I will not buy a ticket.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
If they find the Higgs my future job is Doomed XD
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
True. True. But the Higgs isn’t the only physics game in town at the LHC, you know
I think the humanity will learn much more from 100,000 theorists then it will from LHC operations.
I’m not so sure about that. Probably the most important contribution from LHC operations to humanity will be overcoming the daunting task of rapidly moving and processing extreme amounts of data on computing grids. That alone is probably worth sacrificing 100,000 theorists to Wall Street
April 4th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Sunny Kalara:” get 100,000 more high energy theorists to start working on all the unsolved problems - I think the humanity will learn much more from 100,000 theorists then it will from LHC operations.”
The number of HEP theorists working on the unsolved problems is the conserved quantity as demonstrated empirically during last 80 years and in particular during last 30. I guess that even today the total number is much more than needed.
Addition the 100,000 idiots may lead to the end of science.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
sure, baby black holes instead of growign, travel back to the past cause einstein is ‘double wrong’and we are sons of god, so earth’s microbial surface will reproduce the big bang and nothing will happen, after all the infinite universe has been created exactly as it is by god, cause he consulted with a goatkeeper called moses and then came to explain it all to sunny kalara
the harder they fall…
April 14th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I’m not a physicist. Pretty far from it. Just an illustrator actually. Me and my friend have been following this story for the past month or two and it honestly scares us senseless. Why the entire planet isn’t on top of this topic is astounding. Do all you can to stop it. Best of luck.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
That was an April 1st Joke posting.
LHC is safe, don’t worry. Whatever LHC is doing, happens millions of time every day because of the cosmic rays.
Sleep soundly. We physicists are on the job.
From LA times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-collider13apr13,0,2473428,full.story
“Look,” Mangano said, leaning forward in his chair at CERN’s sprawling complex, “what if I told you tomorrow when you shave you will blow up the world? You laugh. You say that can’t happen. But how do you know?
“The only thing we know is that there have been about a million billion shaves since people started shaving and the world is still here,” he said.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Come on, guys, argue the facts, joking about it does not convince the public!!
April 16th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Zane Williard :”I’m not a physicist. Pretty far from it.
If so, I will use the religious argument. God worked hard to create the world. The result is not perfect, but no doubt not bad. Do you see any reason He would agree to destroy it?
October 26th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I didn’t understand if you are against lhc or not.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
This was a posting on April 1; disclaimer is at the bottom of the post
I fully and completely support LHC.