Monday, March 31, 2008
“Unquestioned answers are more dangerous than unanswered questions.” Put another way, “Unanswered questions may be frustrating, but unquestioned answers are dangerous.”
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There is some concern that experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have the possibility of destroying Earth. Some people have filed a federal suit in Hawaii to stop the experiments, as reported at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/science/29collider.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&hp (the scarier stuff is on page 2 - do read it all).
Scott Adams, at http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/03/oops.html, has an amusing but inadvertently illuminating take on it. I know a few people who work or have worked at CERN, and from what I know of them, Scott's analysis of their thinking is disturbingly right on.
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1 comment:
And I thought it was bad living minutes away from Oak Ridge where all sorts of fun stuff goes on, splitting atoms, creating neutrons and such.
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