PD Smith

A particle God doesn’t want us to discover

21 October 2009 | Doomsday Men | Post a comment

In a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle for the Sun­day Times, Jonathan Leake asks could the Large Hadron Col­lid­er be sab­o­tag­ing itself from the future?

“Some physi­cists sug­gest that when bil­lions of pounds have been spent on the kit to probe such ideas, there is lit­tle need to invent new ones about time trav­el and self-sab­o­tage. His­to­ry shows, how­ev­er, it is unwise to dis­miss too quick­ly ideas that are ini­tial­ly seen as sci­ence fic­tion. Peter Smith, a sci­ence his­to­ri­an and author of Dooms­day Men, which looks at the links between sci­ence and pop­u­lar cul­ture, points out that what start­ed as sci­ence fic­tion has often become the inspi­ra­tion for big dis­cov­er­ies.”

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