Next Wednesday, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland will switch on the $6 billion Large Hadron Collider, a 27-kilometer particle accelerator that will create physical conditions that haven't existed in the universe since the big bang. Full Story »
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A fairly lame little blurb briefly covering the extreme reactions towards the LHC. It does have a good quotation from Cory Doctorow (quoting a physicist) regarding the likelihood of evaporating while shaving vs. the LHC ending the world.
Other reviews here might judge this post by the NewsTrust.net protocol, and in doing so, might miss something more basic: What is a blog, why are we reviewing it here, and by what criteria? In many ways this is an example of an excellently executed blog--something rare even online these days--by Joshua Keating, an editorial assistant at FP. I selected this entry to showcase the brevity and fact-base of accountable blogging. Word length is less than 200 (which is what some bloggers require before mentioning the topic of their posts). There are five links to sourcing information that provide a fact-checkable authority base. Now back to the fundamental issue of my review: How does one analyze a post by criteria appropriate for its ... More »
Cory Doctorow quotes one physicist saying, “Look, it’s a 10-19 chance, and you’ve got a 10-11 chance of suddenly evaporating while ... More »
This is a quick read, short and to the point. While it does make opponents of the device sound like nutters, it covers all the basics very well.
Hardly an article as much as a news byte, This is what I would expect from the local news. And no, we're not likely to all die next week, at least not because of something CERN does.
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