From the guy who came up with Hawking radiation, and one of the leading scientists that 'knows' that the lhc is safe.Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/s ... 107207.ece
It makes me think of how financial authority Alan Greenspan used to be a visionary, and if I may quote him, regarding how the financial marked crashed:
If you look at the numbers and frequency of Cosmic Rays, than there is absolutely no reason that anyone can say that the lhc is safe. It is just like the financial bankers that knew that the market where not healthy, but they refused to be rational, and cut in their own flesh, because everything was going just fine.In Congressional testimony on October 23, 2008, Greenspan acknowledged that he was "partially" wrong in opposing regulation and stated "Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity — myself especially — are in a state of shocked disbelief." Referring to his free-market ideology, Greenspan said: “I have found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I have been very distressed by that fact.” Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) then pressed him to clarify his words. “In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working,” Waxman said. “Absolutely, precisely,” Greenspan replied. “You know, that’s precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.” Greenspan admitted fault in opposing regulation of derivatives and acknowledged that financial institutions didn't protect shareholders and investments as well as he expected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan