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Old 09-September-2008, 12:08 AM
Warren Platts Warren Platts is offline
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Originally Posted by Van Rijn View Post
In case it was missed earlier, I quoted the LSAG report here:

Large Hadron Colliders a DANGER??

Again, from the report:



So, whatever the LHC can do has been done over, and over, and over again in nature.
That portion of the LSAG report is a great example of the rhetorical technique known as hyperbole. As is saying the LHC is as safe as a burrito fart.

And it all depends on that extrapolation of the semiclassical approximation to the realm of quantum gravity. . . .
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