Jul 12, 2011
Can the World Live with the Logic of CERN?
Posted by Otto E. Rössler in categories: existential risks, particle physics
Pascal claimed: When the size of a potential punishment is infinite, any finite advantage gained by taking the risk is stupid.
CERN does not dispute that the so far un-disproved Telemach theorem predicts that its currently running LHC experiment will shrink the planet to 2 cm in perhaps five years’ time with a finite probability (8 percent?).
But CERN refuses since January 27, 2011 the “scientific safety conference” requested by a court to disprove the danger if possible, and continues instead.
Pascal would say that this behavior is incompatible with reason. Is there any citizen on the planet not being an employee of CERN who agrees with the logic of CERN? For example, a member of the UN Security Council?
For J.O.R.