RAM the Doomsday Machine!

[Steve]

Yo, BB, here's your chance to worry about something besides AG:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/scien ... lider.html

[RAM]

Yo Steverino (not related to Neutrino I presume?)-As more evidence to the question of my sanity, I have been aware of this Cern collider thing for years as I read all the lay-oreinted books I can on particle physics (understanding very little of what I read, but still trying). Early on Middle Tennesse was being considered as the location for the super collider (a lot of studies in the area I helped map geologically), but then Texas won out, and finally the Swiss got it. Our boys in Washington figured it was better to spend the money on even more foolish things.
What greater hope is there but the guys who have filed the law suit are right and that when the collider is started up Earth is destroyed in a nanosecond? The end of all problems!
Bad Bob

[Steve]

What greater hope is there but the guys who have filed the law suit are right and that when the collider is started up Earth is destroyed in a nanosecond?

None, except maybe it'll happen in a femtosecond. It's awful when these things get dragged out interminably.

[Jack Bright]

I think Chicken Little knew what she was saying, this theorizing is
great and interesting. Duh, but . . . . ? What now brown cow ?

[Don Champion]

Steve - I worked at the U.S.'s version of that particle accelerator for 31 years. It is located near Batavia, IL, about 40 miles west of Chicago. While CERN is larger, it is not complete yet. Fermilab is still the largest particle accelerator in the world until CERN is completed. When it was started the locals thought those of us who worked there would glow in the dark.