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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

From Monkeywrenches With Love

High technology is worse than useless when it isn't.



The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.

Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies.

Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival machine across the ocean.

After 15 years and $9 billion, and a showy “switch-on” ceremony last September, the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, has to yet collide any particles at all...


All it takes is one closet antitechnology technician or electrician to completely derail a multibillion dollar high energy physics project capable of expanding human knowledge about matter and energy and space and time.

Let's be honest. You think Darwin is a challange to the Fundamentalists? Nothing mocks the Biblical worldview more than high energy physics even though it provides the Apocalypse weapons the Crusaders lust for the most.

1 comment:

Wiglaf said...

All it takes is one closet antitechnology technician

Damn. I never thought of that. Very "Angels & Demons"-esque.


Still, it is the most entropy-vulnerable gadget ever whipped up ... I've often wondered if that universal tendency puts an effective upper limit on manageable complexity.