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Several of Posner??€™s disaster set-ups feel like they’ve been ripped from the scripts of Hollywood blockbusters (think Armageddon or The Matrix). But his strangelet scenario deserves special consideration here at Harvard because particle accelerators figure prominently in the work of several of the University’s most prominent physicists...
...furious that I started rounding up fellow socially-minded Harvardians to head to RHIC’s Upton, N.Y. home and protest this travesty. In a fearful fury, I decided to check with Harvard’s crack team of experimental high energy physicists to see whether Posner??€™s calculations are on-target...
...Posner??€™s analysis is helpful when one considers several catastrophes in which the risk is more substantial...
Perhaps most importantly, Posner??€™s book sends a strong message to us humanities and social sciences concentrators. Our physicist friends seem to be not guilty of endangering the Earth with their expensive particle accelerators. But just as science concentrators don’t docilely demur on questions of politics and economics, we should keep an eye on the folks hunkered down in Harvard’s state-of-the-art labs...
...Coop and pick up a copy of Catastrophe. But on the way, follow Posner??€™s risk-reducing advice: strap on a bicycle helmet, buckle up your safety belt, look both ways before you cross the street…and watch out for particle physicists on the loose...