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Call me "anti-science" but I wish they would stop being surprised.

Submitted by paul4won on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 08:32
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_sc/eu_sci_big_bang...

"The nuclear physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider were surprised that they could so quickly get beams of protons whizzing near the speed of light during the restart late Friday, said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research."

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"Steve Myers, CERN's director for accelerators, said the improvements since then have made the LHC a far better understood machine than it was a year ago."

I am less impressed with what they understand than I am worried about the apparent endless depth of things they do NOT understand. Yet they proceed right along cheerily as though they were right on top of everything.

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Submitted by Fedor on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 09:58.

good.

They sound like me as

Submitted by quiltingsando on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 09:49.

a child when I thought it would be fun to put a marble in my mouth.

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I'm a fan of serendipitous science.

Submitted by McClarinJ on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 08:48.

Mega-danger lurks in many places but I wouldn't place the LHC at the top of the list.

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http://horizonscanblog.blogspot.com/

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It seems they do not no where to place it on the list

Submitted by paul4won on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 08:51.

That is my complaint. "Serendipity" is when it is good. So far, this is the first "good" surprise.

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