Here three news articles about the public reaction to the Large Hadron Collider or LHC.
LHC scientists get death threats
So it’s come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University… Read More
LHC and Faith-Based Science
Public reaction to the Large Hadron Collider is so ignorant and brain-dead we need a theory to explain what’s going on. I asked Charles King at Pund-IT for a theory. He offered this: I believe that much of the public reaction to the LHC is grounded in a kind of ignorance that might be called… Read More
Stephen Hawking: LHC vital, absolutely safe
Since the geniuses at CERN have failed to assuage amped-up (if entirely unfounded) fears that the Large Hadron Collider is actually a doomsday machine, they have reached up to the mountain to get Prof. Stephen Hawking himself to address the issue. He appeared on BBC 4, as the Telegraph reports.
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For those new to what the LHC is check out the Large Hadron Rap:
CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.
More… http://webcast.cern.ch/index.html
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