Do You Feel It Is Unfair That We Didn't Get To Vote On This?

Question

The Large Hadron Collider...

I just found out about it recently. While on one hand I am very excited to see that scientists have went this far and found a way to build something that could do something so advanced. But on the other, I feel it could be very dangerous. It also kind of frightens me of how not many people even know about it. More info:

From: http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

Our understanding of the Universe is about to change…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the miniscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.

Two beams of subatomic particles called ‘hadrons’ – either protons or lead ions – will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will analyse the particles created in the collisions using special detectors in a number of experiments dedicated to the LHC.

There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions, but what’s for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator, as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe. For decades, the Standard Model of particle physics has served physicists well as a means of understanding the fundamental laws of Nature, but it does not tell the whole story. Only experimental data using the higher energies reached by the LHC can push knowledge forward, challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm.

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Some other links that could be useful:

http://thefifthknight.blogspot.com/

http://www.SaneScience.org/

http://www.LHCFacts.org

http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm

http://www.lhcdefense.org/

http://www.lhcconcerns.com

Popular Mechanics - “World’s Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock ‘God Particle’” - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html”

Answer 1

I'm glad that people like you didn't get to vote on it, especially considering how many of the links you provided are run by kooks who don't understand what it is they are opposing.

It is not in any way dangerous (many of the same idiots have also opposed other accelerators such as RHIC that didn't destroy the world).

Answer 2

I don't get to vote on how my neighbors live their lives. Do you? Would you have voted against this if you could have?