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Originally Posted by photon
They do have a page that addresses those concerns at a high level:
http://public.web.cern.ch/PUBLIC/en/LHC/Safety-en.html
Basically it boils down to they're not doing anything that hasn't already been done in nature a bazillion times already. So expecting some universe ending result is similar to expecting opening a beer to make your house explode. Sure it's possible, the pressure release combined with just the right combination of Brownian motion could cause the fusion of two beer molecules or something, but most people don't worry about that when they grab a beer from the fridge.
The "anything's possible" line of reasoning is faulty because while yes, anything's possible, that's not the important question. The important question is what is probable.
The classic example being finding a hoof print in the dirt. Was it made by a horse? A zebra? Or a unicorn? All are possible, but the question is are they all equally probable. |
Besides, religious intolerance and hatred will consume us all soon enough
Gogo Islam!
