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Well, we're not dead. I have to admit that I feel a little relief, but I'm also kind of surprised that nothing fell off the machine and broke before the experiment could begin. Lowest bidder build, after all.
But yeah, there ya go.
"Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."
I'm more interested in the related technologies that will come of this.
Given that when CERN wanted to share data without printing it out, they invented the WWW I want to see what will happen with the Grid that thy have created for actually processing the data they produce.
And i would like them to round up all the scientists who claimed it would blow us all to the back of beyond, make them sit and watch it and then publicly apologise for being numpties.
Good customers are as rare as Latinum. Treasure them. ~ The 57th Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition.
Thing is, they weren't doing any partical collisions today, they were essentially doing a 'shakedown' test to make sure it all worked, hell they only used a portion of the track, next year however is when they start crashing molecules together.
Probably the same as Y2K and the Manhattan Project (They thought it might set the sky alight) I.E Nothing at all. Yes, a black hole may be created, but it'd be so tiny and last for so little time (a fraction of a fraction of a second) that nothing catastrophic at all will happen.
I am the nocturnal echo-locating flying mammal man.
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