God shut down the particle accelerator

[Anthony Sulecki]

God has struck again! Keeping in theme with a previous post, concerning Pompeii being an act of god, it seems god has chosen another project to dominate.

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/10/13/did-god-stop-cern-from-discovering-the-god-particle/

This is the best article i've read all week, outside of the new H1N1 vaccine killings.

[Jon Holdman]

Sigh! Having spent some time working on a particle accelerator during my undergrad years, I know these are extremely complex and finicky beasts. The one I worked on was trivial in comparison to the Large Hadron Collider. Yet we still spent a year at one point just trying to get it properly in alignment. Unlike science fiction movies where some complex base can sustain heavy fire from aliens, have fires and smoke raging in every corner and still blast them out of the sky, every single piece must work properly for a device like this to work. Its much more surprising when they get it work than when some goes wrong.