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CERN Big Bang experiment

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Scientists at CERN recreate conditions for the Big Bang; skeptics warn it might succeed 'all too well,' triggering a new Big Bang that destroys our world, illustrating the risk of 'unknown unknowns' in technology.

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“some skeptics warned about the possibility that the experiment will succeed all too well, effectively setting in motion a new Big Bang which will simply undermine, if you want, destroy our world.”
“what if they will succeed too much and they will trigger a process where our entire reality will disintegrate”
“They will be proven right but there will be no one in a very short time to whom you can prove that you were right.”

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Scientists at CERN recreate conditions for the Big Bang; skeptics warn it might succeed 'all too well,' triggering a new Big Bang that destroys our world, illustrating the risk of 'unknown unknowns' in technology., illustrating unknown unknowns,second nature
When CERN attempted to recreate big-bang conditions, a paranoiac fear circulated that they might trigger a process disintegrating all of reality, Žižek enjoys this fear as an illustration of the uncanny power of scientific non-mastery., illustrating non-mastery,lamella,science and the real
Žižek enjoys the scenario that if CERN successfully reproduces Big Bang conditions and triggers a new Big Bang, all reality disintegrates, they would be proven right, but in a very short time there would be no one left to whom they could prove it., illustrating ontological catastrophe,technology,Heidegger