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Originally Posted by DeepIron
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Originally Posted by CCIP
To be serious, I just haven't seen any convincingly scientific indications this could go THAT bad. I mean sure, anything can happen. But given what I think is a small risk of something going badly wrong, weighed against what could produce a massive breakthrough for human knowledge... I think it's more than worth it. This may be the sort of science that "threatens" earth and the solar system, but it's also the sort of science that gives us a chance to one day save our species by taking us beyond these. Honestly, there's a lot of other threats to survival of human civilization as it stands.
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Well in principal I would agree...
However, the last major breakthrough in this kind of physics got dropped twice on Japan and we've lived in fear of it ever since... |
If I remember my history correctly, when they were about to test the Atomic bomb for the very first time, several scientists were taking bets on whether or not the blast would begin to fuse the Nitrogen and Oxygen in the atmosphere (think wildfire in the air) that would destroy all the breathable air on the planet.
As I recall, no one bothered any judge to stop the experiement.
I believe the Earth survived the experiment (and subsequent blasts as well).