2 ms·
The Large Hadron Collider - Genesis 2.0
- JacobAldridge 17y agoAn interesting tour of the facility, with some wonderful observations. It’s one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time, even though it looks like a monumental folly. Or else, it's a monumental folly, even though it looks like one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time. On "dark energy" and "dark matter" - those names are really just black-box placeholders (like "God") And taking the journalist’s ability to fake fluency in all kinds of subjects to a Stephen Hawking lecture, only to realise that all week everyone else had been radically dumbing down their explanations so that I...might achieve some tiny glimmer of understanding.