At 20:25 17/10/09 -0400, jayroth6 wrote: >A fellow activist in Cleveland (http://twitter.com/tovX) forwarded this to me under the title >"For Just This BS $6 bln is Stolen from Workers" The article pointed to in TGdaily is absolute bullshit. Trash. There's certainly no talk about "god" by actual physicists or in the paper pointed to (which is indeed a rather far-fetched paper). There are surely hundreds/thousands of papers proposing experiments for the LHC which will investigate some very fundamental physics.
>So these are the "great questions" that funding the LHC with dollars sweated and bled from workers I could hardly justify diverting this kind of money if it would otherwise have gone to feeding the hungry. But suffice it to say that the amount of actual scientific knowledge expected to be gained from this apparatus is tremendously greater than would be gained from spending $1 trillion on a human mission to Mars (as Bush pushed for). Even sending people to the moon again would cost more than $6 billion (at today's prices), also having almost no scientific value. I hope that help's put the issue more in perspective. - Jeff > worldwide was supposed to answer? There are people dying for want of food out here. > > >God sabotaged the LHC, say scientists > >http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44291/181/ > >http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0707/0707.1919v3.pdf > ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
