Large Hadron Collider

20th September, 2008 - On Friday (19.09.08), a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC's) super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100 degrees. A tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at CERN, near Geneva. Safety doesn't only involve the theory behind the technology, but the mechanics of its operation. Science can be easily undermined. The scientists who are convinced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is safe, cannot know, or understand, enough to be sure they know what they are dealing with. It's self-defining. The quest for knowledge is to populate the void filled by the unknowns. To test the hypothesis and confirm beliefs to strengthen understanding.

The paradox arises because to test the hypothesis, the experiment has to be run. If it goes seriously wrong then Pandora's Box has been opened. The genie is out of the bottle. Experiments are essential to produce any advancement, though to deliberately attempt to produce a black hole that is itself only speculation, does border on the irresponsible: similar to exploding a bomb in the room to determine the damage to the occupants of that room.

Science
CERN
Higgs Boson
Higgs Boson - The Search (1)
Higgs Boson - The Search (2)
Higgs Boson - The Search (3)

That there is much flippant talk about Earth being constantly bombarded by tiny black holes, so the LHC experiment is trivial, displaying an attitude of great concern. Black holes and dark energy are only theoretical concepts and messing about with potentially such power is swelling the scientific ego to new orders of magnitude. An animation illustrates a scenario. To create energies of such potential is to imagine a 'god-like' status that endangers humanity and its very existence. Madness. To state it is safe is similar in principle to stating that GM is safe. (Human) Genetics is not understood well enough to enable tinkering. Dark Phenomena Risking Human (and all life) existence to 'prove' an academic point has absolutely no justification. Taking Higgs Boson as one example, if such a particle exists, where does that take Man's future? Sending a man into space is all very interesting (and hugely expensive), but for what? What will ever be achieved?

Nothing

A simple demonstration of the arrogance of only a few individuals. The 'certain' knowledge of proving... what? If nothing happens, what will be shown by this failure to demonstrate anything. If something does happen then... Playing 'god' is to create something, but this is in the opposite direction: potentially to destroy. Like a Devil?