The other thing is I had never heard about particle accelerators till a couple of days ago and the articles I have read to research further so I can draw my own conclusions, have pretty much said that particle collisions are not new and have been done before WITHOUT this much media attention. It's just the fact that this is the biggest one ever made and that it's 2 degrees Celcius from Absolute Zero, that this is closer to making the conditions similar to the billionth or trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
I don't believe from everything I've read that this is the end of the world. I do believe that there are really two sides of the coin: one side, it was a complete waste of billions of dollars and nothing new is learnt or the other side, something new will be learnt (the God particle). It will be interesting to see if the String Theory still stands. I do believe that the media has blown this out of proportion as it often does and well, a headline like "Black Holes Suck Up Earth" sells more than "Scientists build garguantan machine in Alps to find special particle to explain the building blocks of the universe".
I also think that if they do find anything, we will be the last to know.
I'm one of those people who also believe that the universe operates in a number of dimensions and my Harold Oxley theory of the day is that this could open a portal to another dimension or just give us a glimpse of "the space between spaces." KOTCS might just have some science to it after all.
I don't understand why they have bothered announcing it. I seriously would have thought that they would have kept it quiet to stop panic. And I wouldn't be surprised if they have already done a simulation at the least to be so confident that the Earth won't get destroyed. I mean, the scientists I saw in the doco just laughed at the idea. Evidently they know a lot more than I do, but there's something they're not telling us. At least, I'm suspicious.
Yeah, at least we lived to see another Indy...
