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Death threats the day before we all die?
By adamg on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 4:34pm
The Globe reports that Frank Wilczek, a Nobel-winning physicist at MIT, has been getting death threats because he's publicly said he doesn't think the world will actually end tomorrow when Europeans turn on the world's largest particle collider.
Wilczek is discussing his new book, on the latest advances in physics, tonight, at the Harvard Bookstore.
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The World's NOT Going To End?
I beg to differ. Tom Brady is out for the season.
Suldog
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The Day The Earth Stood Still
It's coming.
Oh, and Adam, you can blow your own horn about the outside.in thing ...
I"m sleeping in tomorrow to
I"m sleeping in tomorrow to make sure I miss it. When the entire mass of the planet gets sucked down a worm-hole, I'll be snug as a bug in a rug.
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Piss On The Wall
(sorry - couldn't find the MTV video on the neobalderized youtube)
Huh?
He said they shouldn't distract from the $9 billion experiment itself, which physicists hope will answer fundamental questions about the structure of matter by recreating the conditions of the early universe.
Really? Funny. You'd think that if that were the case, he wouldn't be plastering his smiling face all over the papers yakking about the death threat from one lone nutjob the police aren't concerned about enough to do anything with.
In fairness to him
I think what happened was some news outlets did a story on the collider and mentioned the death threats and then the Globe focused in on that (local man and all that) - and, um, so did I.