Second chance for Large Hadron Collider to deliver universe's secrets

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I'm of the opinion that the LHC will make a great mess of physics. I saw a show on Discovery where most of the physicists at CERN feel there's a 9/10 chance they'll find the Higgs. Just a hunch, but I don't think they'll find it. I think they'll find something that forces them to rethink all of sub-atomic physics, which would be way cooler.

Also, is anyone else tired of every LHC article talking about Earth getting sucked into a black hole? Ludicrous, I tell you...

Not only the black hole bit, but the time ripples propagating back from the future to prevent an abomination?

Yeesh...

I agree with you, about the scientists not finding the Higgs Boson. From everything I've seen so far of science, it hardly seems like it could be that simple. It seems as though every time we delve deeper into a field, our conception of how everything works is changed, and this hardly seems like the time for it to stop. I could be proven wrong though. Someone might prove that P=NP. That would be cool.

>>Also, is anyone else tired of every LHC article talking about Earth getting sucked into a black hole? Ludicrous, I tell you...

A simple physics experiment destroying humanity seems really stupid -- but it would be a really neat solution to Fermi's Paradox ("why aren't there any visible technological civilizations"). 1/2 :-)

there's a 9/10 chance they'll find the Higgs

Are there any such wagers available in London? If so, what odds do they quote?

Does Lloyd's of London sell insurance against a black hole event? :-)

Obligatory: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1919

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