P. Syriac » Astrophysics http://psyriac.com Noise Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:39:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 So long and thanks for all the fish? http://psyriac.com/2008/09/10/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-2/ http://psyriac.com/2008/09/10/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-2/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:32:01 +0000 Punnen Syriac http://ontheverge.wordpress.com/?p=735 Update: We live to die another day.

The LHC gets switched on in a few hours and contrary to what lunatics may want you to believe, the world will not be swallowed by a black hole. What interests me more is as to what *will* actually come out of this 6 billion dollar science experiment. Will they find the Higgs boson? Or will Hawking win that wager?

In Carl Sagan’s Contact, governments cooperate to build this giant dodecahedron (after receiving step by step instructions from a very ambiguous extra-terrestrial intelligence). After spending trillions of dollars on a project that many believed would shape humanity’s future, remember what happened?

Nothing.

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