but when we have the ppl behind the Large Hadron Collider admitting they dont actually know whats gonna happen, alarm bells must ring for unemotive rational ppl.
Yes, let's make a list of every possible instance where humans did something "big" in which they had no clue what the consequencies might truly be:
Wait, let's not, because I don't have that kind of time before the Mayan calendar runs out -- I have a feeling that list, if printed, using 5pt font on a 1200dpi laser printer, would take about four billion 8.5x14 pages.
People didn't know what would happen with the first nuclear fission experiments (long before the bomb). Nevertheless, they had a good idea of what to expect...
People didn't know what would happen with the first particle accelerator experiments (long before the Hadron collider). Nevertheless, they had a good idea of what to expect...
I'm rather unconvinced that Tesla knew what was going to happen when he started pushing many hundreds of thousands of volts into the atmosphere, but once again, I bet he had a solid idea of what to expect...
Not knowing does not lead you to
not doing.
I say turn that bad bastard all the way to "eleven" and watch the 10TeV collision pop out a few hundred red, blue and green quarks and enjoy the fireworks with barbeque and beer. And when the day is done and the planet is still here, rub it in as many people's faces as humanly possible. Insofar as the world "ending later", that argument will never stop. The doomsayers will only extend their "later" date ad-infinitum.
And if we really truly die? So what? I'd rather die in the name of science than in the name of someone's god(s), politics, or greed.
