No More Reason to Go to Switzerland
I guess there is no longer a reason for me to book a ticket and browse travel insurance prices for a trip tot Switzerland now that the Large Hadron Collider is damaged and projected to be down for at least two months.
That sure made for a disappointing startup, no? The planning and building of the project took about 20 years, and then it ran about 10 days and then fizzled out like an outdated bag of Pop Rocks.
I still see the thing as mostly a follow up to the many science fiction books that have centered on similar machines. And, as a time travel enthusiast (well, fictional time travel, that is), I’m all for the notice. I just don’t see it actually working the way these scientists hope that it will.
I read Blasphemy by Douglas Preston a bit ago, so this “real world” scenario seems like a bit of life imitating art, really. The book was more exciting, though.
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