If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider...

Re:If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider... by CamperBob on Saturday September 25, 2010 @12:45AM (#1726331)

So, these are not the same people who are in charge of determining whether or not a black hole might form and persist, correct?

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Re:If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider... by robryan on Saturday September 25, 2010 @01:55AM (#1726427)

Except they have done research on the black hole possibility, there work centres on the beams colliding not what happens if it hits a certain combination of atoms that make up a human hand.

I guess it's kind of like someone saying to a programmer, hey can you fix my computer, you work in computer right?

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Re:If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider... by CamperBob on Saturday September 25, 2010 @05:43PM (#1727942)

I guess it struck me as more like someone saying to a C programmer, "Hey, can you help me find the bug in this Java routine?" The C programmer might not know Java intimately but at least he's not going to stroke his beard and act like it's something he's never considered before.

I certainly wouldn't expect two or three competent C programmers to offer wildly divergent opinions if asked a question that fell slightly outside their everyday practice.

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