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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.

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.

Originally posted by Mr_Investor

I'm just waiting for someone to mistype Hadron :mrgreen:

Why James, 'tis usually YOU who does that sort of typo.

I've been reading up on this experiment for quite some time. Its highly controversial. There's a lot of protesting going on concerning it. People are saying the scientist running it really don't know what to expect that it could literally destroy the planet. Pretty much the same things that are always said about massive technical projects that people with little understanding about science protest about. Should give the "doomsday" folks a Hadron.

Sorry, couldn't resist :D