big bang day

So this is it.

In a few hours they'll fire their first beam through the particle accelerator and we'll all see just how clever scientists are with their 10 billion dollar project.

I've been reading a few blogs about CERN and the opinions I have read are polarized; there are some people scared to death about what could happen if this goes wrong, and then there are others who are sitting there all smug calling the concerned parties all sorts of names. What really gets me though is the sheer lack of scientific rebuttall; the people who say we should be worried have all sorts of theories and research to quote from, but the ones who are all for charging ahead really have nothing to say except that if we're not scientists, we must be stupid, so we should just sit here and let someone's pet research project put all of us and all our children at risk.

And let's not forget that there's a lot of money tied up in this as well for big investors, all looking for a way to use this information to bolster their respective military forces. So yeah why not go head and vape us all, seeing as the whole thing is probably being built to do just that anyways.

I am not normally one to side with the worriers of the world, seeing as most of their opinions come from quotations from scripture, but this time I'm going to sit with them even if it's not for the same reasons. To me, a scientist using actual rational proof to say this thing is dangerous bears a lot more weight than those who will sit there and say "Oh if a small black hole is created it will evaporate in one second,". There are also clever-clogs who say with all sorts of conviction that a black hole is no stronger than the mass is was created from, which is usually, theoretically, a collapsed star. But the problem here is unless I've missed out on something about the space program, nobody has actually seen a black hole, been to one, or studied one properly. I mean it's not as if we have one handy nearby that we can look at properly - it's all just speculation until we know for sure. I just don't think it's a very smart idea to go playing with this stuff right here on the planet when we dont know enough about it to be sure it's safe. I personally don't think this whole rant about all experiments having a certain amount of risk associated with them is really a good argument when you're risking the whole planet, and the lives of everyone on it. Imagine if it goes wrong - are they going to apologize fast enough?

Smart people can be so fucking stupid sometimes.

That is all.