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Originally Posted by dpastern
If they can't be 100% sure that nothing untoward will happen to the planet, then we shouldn't be doing it. Plain and simple.
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Dave,
You are just trading one kind of uncertainty for another. You are making an implicit assumption that the knowledge gained from the LHC is not useful for saving or vastly improving the planet in the future. By *not* doing the experiments we may lack the information required to prevent something untoward from happening to the planet.
As far as I can see, the LHC has gone through many different reviews where all of these concerns have been addressed and we just aren't doing anything with the LHC that doesn't already happen in nature. To me, there is more of a risk not to do it.
Cheers,
Paul.