On Sep 10, 9:23*pm, Rich wrote:
They could have built 4 colliders for the same cost as the white
elephant in space. Hey Americans, remember the Superconducting
Supercollider? *Too bad you abandoned it to the prairie dogs.

Apart from the cobblers about the 'deep mysteries of the
Universe','new physics' and all the usual party pieces thrown at a
wider population ( who probably would like to know how many planets
there are in the solar system !) why should the Americans spend money
on projects that may have benefits at highly concentrated levels of
energy but have no intrinsic astronomical value beyond processes such
as stellar evolution.

The precepts for this ridiculous sounding 'big bang' are simply
celestial sphere extensions of the late 17th century framework with no
prizes for guessing where the -every-point-is-the-valid-center coming
from -

http://www.opencourse.info/astronomy...phere_anim.gif

That is what you get when you decide to tie daily rotation directly to
a stellar framework and the calendar system,you have thousands of
valuable lives wasted on working off an astrological framework and
coming up with an expanding balloon Universe.

On the bright side,the LHC could produce genuine productive work but
not in structural astronomy and that is being fair.