That's the problem with employing nitwits as newsjockeys: they hear a quote like "conditions are going to be like those at the time of the big bang!" and they will print "LHC will cause end of universe with a big bang!", totally disregarding the context.
Sometimes I feel that our 'free' media are as useless as government controlled media (in various unnamed states. If you live there, you will deny it anyhow as the papers said so") not through deliberate evilness will to misrepresent news, just by a lack of quality standards.
I hope we'll get some usefull data this time around, it has been/is a huge investment.
[rant alert]
On another tack:
does anyone but me think that string theory attracts way too many astrologists?
I frequently read popular science mags such as 'new scientist' , 'scientific american' etc, and the cosmological theories that are published more frequently than satelite launches seem to me in the genre of speculation. More akin to personal auras, than serious models, just less likely to be tested and found lacking.
The most recent example proposes we negate disastrous events by deleting awareness of impending doom. The theory being: if you don't know about the event, you need to re-observe it for it to be true in your universe. Rubbish! Sticking your head in the sand won't negate the universe to a null state. It is just a cheap rehash of solipsist existentialism.
In which case I don't need cosmic strings, for I am God and you are all figments of my demented imagination. And because just wanting annoyances away does not work, this must be a test I created for myself and my godhood will be reinstated once I break this false reality in which I am weak and powerless by killing random people around me. (see how solipsism does not work and would be very dangerous in the mind of a sociopath?)
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