“What exactly are “t—”s?”

They’re the things that cox fit into.

Sorry, couldn’t resist that.

When he said anyone I think he meant anyone who had a clue.

“It is also true that if anyone, . including myself, had any doubt about the safety of what we are doing, we would stop immediately.”

Well then you’d better stop immediately. As I’ve noted above and as I’m sure you’ve heard a hell of a lot of other people have strong doubts over the safety of what your doing. I’m anyone & so the many, many other people who are worried about the LHC.

“It’s my birthday tomorrow. The LHC turning on on my birthday is pretty cool. If it destroys earth then…well that’s kind of cool also.”

You’ve got an odd idea of what constitutes “cool” then.

The destruction of everyone on the planet – the destruction of the Earth itself would be a real bummer if you ask me.

Now I don’t think that’ll happen with the LHC – I certainly hope not.

But I don’t like them taking even the smallest chance where
destroying everything and everyone on the face of the globe is concerned.

Quasars and the first billionth of a second post Big Bang are fascinating areas of study. But the downside is they’re impossible conditions to survive – & I don’t want Earth becoming them! Observe them sure but let’s be a bit more careful before we recreate them!
As for thetehicals

No one predicts the resonance cascade.

That’s an important point to note. Not a single particle physicist has raised a concern. There are exactly two scientists total that have, neither with any expertise in the field. Each presented calculations that contained very fundamental errors. The “chemist” is extremely eccentric, to put it mildly.

I’ve written about the issue and especially the opposition scientists in a post called “Large Hadron Collider: What’s the Risk?”

Radio Times are probably self-censoring, due to some recent silly business at Random House.

Pete: Thats OK, most people don’t know–and that includes me.

Seriously, I figured what fun is a post about nutters going on about the LHC without a nutter going on about it?

Sooo–I took the tin foil out of my hat and Voila! One nutter going on about the LHC. Another case of Fudd’s First Law of Opposition in action.

I am sane–mostly.

Tom Says:
Am I the only one here who’s ever seen a sc-fi horror film?
Ok, maybe not the end of the world, but there’s OBVIOUSLY gonna be monsters!!!

OH, I hope so! We haven’t had many really good monsters since the Atomic Ants invaded the LA storm drains, and Godzilla kicked some Tokyo Tushie!

Dave Hall is right. The end of the world will be brought about by the Large Hadrone Collider. The Large Hadron Collider however is OK. So let’s all promise not collide those Hadrones.

All these people scared because of a typo with the killer Hadrones.

Now, it’s the end of the world. Hmmm… Too many choices. I think I’m going to go with… Nothing is going to happen, that way if it does, I’ll be pleasantly surprised and have something to blog about the next day!

It ws indeed fascinating. Without a doubt the best episode of Horizon in many years. That’s how the BBC should do all (well, most anyway) of its science programmes – have enthusiastic, preferably telegenic scientists talk about their own work and why it’s interesting, rather than trying to force a populist/sensationalist angle on to the material. To be fair, they’ve been doing more of this recently, with several excellent documentaries by Jim Al-Khalili and Brian Cox, but most of the Beeb’s science output is terrible.