Saturday, March 29, 2008

Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More - New York Times


Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More - New York Times: "More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice.
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Times Topics: CERN

None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe.

Scientists say that is very unlikely — though they have done some checking just to make sure."

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