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Originally Posted by Kitsa
I wish someone would grow the balls to say they haven't the foggiest understanding of what those scientists are really doing, instead of playing armchair physicist. :/
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I read your followup, and know you were speaking somewhat tongue in cheek, but will take the statement seriously for my response.
I majored in Physics in College, and one of my favorite subjects was Quantum Theory and subatomic physics. Sadly, I've forgotten much of what I once knew (early onset Alzheimer's) and I don't claim to be able to hold a night-light to Mr. Pace, let alone Professor Hawking. This being said, I will say that I'm enjoying the hysteria surrounding the great "on-turning" of the LHC. Truthfully, anything created within the huge torus will most likely have a maximum lifetime measured in microseconds, if not nanoseconds. This, by the way, is an eternity for a physicist, but is a pretty short timespan for the rest of us.
In any event, the particle physicists and theoreticians running experiments at the LHC will be learning a great deal about things that I used to understand, but now only am dimly aware.
