Science should be risky business. If you are not taking risks as a scientist, then you are probably doing little more than proving that when you drop an anvil on your foot, gravity will accelerate it at a known rate which will only be altered when the object is acted upon by another object such as your foot, which might help to keep it from suffering any damage upon impact. For truly bold science, we need to produce truly bold experiments.
Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth
'The Large Earth Collider will surely gain us priceless scientific insight by offering a brief glimpse of the universe at the moment of its destruction,' Fermilab director Gordon Josephs said. 'But because the Collider achieves this by hurdling Earth into another large celestial object, there are some who feel the risks associated with annihilating our world are too high.'
Or are the risks not too high enough?
Science should be risky business. If you are not taking risks as a scientist, then you are probably doing little more than proving that when you drop an anvil on your foot, gravity will accelerate it at a known rate which will only be altered when the object is acted upon by another object such as your foot, which might help to keep it from suffering any damage upon impact. For truly bold science, we need to produce truly bold experiments.
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