May 23, 2008

Lydia Millet (Kieran Suckling)

Telford

Studio 360 commissioned the author Lydia Millet to write a short story inspired by the LHC's "grand opening." What happens if the worst happens? Millet's acclaimed 2005 novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was about the physicists who created the atom bomb. Actor Martha Plimpton (nominated for a Tony for her role in "Top Girls" on Broadway) reads "Telford."

And Janna Levin considers if the LHC will create a black hole.

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Posted by: David DeVorkin
May 23, 2008 - 09:27PM
Washington DC

Excellent, honest presentation - far more sophisticated and, indeed, perceptive than the the attempts of the world of science to answer the "Tales of Tomorrow" episode "Blunder" from 1951 stimulated by fears of fusing the atmosphere.

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Posted by: Walt
June 13, 2008 - 03:43PM

'The World is not Enough' - "Revenge of the Nerds: The Final Cut"

Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka 'God') Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments to try to solve theoretical problems when urgent real problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing clouds of Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena.

The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states quote: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." This stunning admission is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing.' you could not be more wrong.

This quote from Nation Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out."

For more information visit;

http://www.lhcdefense.org/

http://www.lhcconcerns.com

http://www.SaneScience.org/

http://www.LHCFacts.org

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