Gaggghhh, talk about over-sensationalisation!

Whilst it’s interesting to see some proper science stuff being reported in the mainstream media, the way it’s been done is just plain daft.

I mean all this talk of today being ‘Big Bang Day’. Then you have the reports about a the chances of the experiment going wrong and sucking up the earth in a black hole.
Well, that was never going to happen today anyway!! All they bloody did was turn the machine on, fire off some protons at (relatively) slow speed in one direction… then do it again in the other direction. There was never any intention of doing any proton beam collisions until October (if I recall correctly).

Of course, ‘LHC turned on’ isn’t exactly an attention grabbing headline is it ;)

Mind you, this over reaction and fear-mongering has gone and had a rather negative effort with the report of a 16 year old in India committing suicide.

Meanwhile, the BBC ‘Have Your Say’ discussion has been invaded by the God Squad