Little Baby Black Holes

Just in case you were wondering, there is a website for people objecting to the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, believing that firing the thing up will initiate the end of the universe, or some such.

The head pot stirrer of the site is one Walter Wagner, who, according to an affidavit filed in the US District Court of Hawaii is: "a nuclear physicist with extensive training in the field. I obtained my undergraduate degree in 1972 at Berkeley, California in the biological sciences with a physics minor, and graduate degree in 1978 in Sacramento, California in law."

It appears, while Mr. Wagner is sometimes referred to as a doctor, that no graduate science degrees were completed. There is no evidence to the effect that a full physics degree was ever earned, other than that represented by the minor. He allegedly worked in the Nuclear Industry in some capacity and claims to have discovered some kind of new particle.

More: "Wagner is a lawyer and former physics lab technician. In 1975, he worked on a project that claimed to discover a magnetic monopole in cosmic ray data ("Evidence for the Detection of a Moving Magnetic Monopole", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 35, (1975)). That claim was later withdrawn in 1978 ("Further Measurements and Reassessment of the Magnetic Monopole Candidate", Physical Review D18: 1382-1421 (1978))"

The website is: www.LHCDefense.org
THE OFFICIAL SITE FOR CITIZENS AGAINST THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

One of the problems with Mr. Wagner's injunction, which was thrown out by the court, was the incorrect assertion that a U.S. court had jurisdiction to stop operations of the Collider, which is located in Geneva, Switzerland. Oh, well.

Mr. Walter is now retired, but states he a Wikipedia science editor, and has involvement in some capacity in a botanical garden in Hawaii.

Cool.

It recalls an English paper that Michael Durka wrote in High School entitled, "When you drive a truck, you are a truck driver." Michael, as I recall, despite some fairly persuasive stuff, received an F.