is the hadron colider bad?

Question: is the hadron colider bad?

Asked by billiekutta to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: General. This question was also asked by elphabawesternwitch.
- Lily Asquith answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  No.
  
  Some crazy people have been going around saying it is bad, but that is because they don’t understand it.
  
  I am not crazy, I do understand it, and I promise you that it is not bad.
- Mark Roberts answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  No not at all – it’s a really cool experiment that could tell us lots of interesting things about how the world works
- Sarah Bardsley answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  Why would it be bad? I think it will come up with some amazing scientific discoveries – ones that could change the way we think about us and the universe.
- Laura Maliszewski answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  Nope. It’s a super awesome super powerful tool used by the best and brightest international scientists under the strictest of safety regulations.
- Paul Roche answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  I’m sure Lily has had to tell it off sometimes, when it’s misbehaving….
  
  There was a lot of publicity about how it was going to create a black hole that would destroy the world etc., but this is just the media trying to find an interesting angle on a science story. Talking about particle physics wouldn’t interest most people (me included…), but as soon a syou put some angle like “you’re all going to die because of mad scientists!”, people will sit up and take notice.

Question: is the hadron colider bad?

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