The questions posed in yesterday’s posts about hopes for 2008 were half of what we were asked by the Powers That Be. The other half:<\/p>\n
\nWhat scientific development do you fear you’ll be blogging or reading about in 2008?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
As with yesterday’s posts, the original question was more general, but I restricted my answer (below the fold) to science stuff, and for the sake of general sanity, I’m going to restrict this post to scientific issues. I’ll put up a second post for political fears.<\/p>\n
But for this post, what are you afraid to be blogging about (if you’re a blogger) or reading about (if you’re not a blogger) in the coming year? It could be an experimental mishap, a funding shortfall, or anything else in the realm of science. It should ideally be something that might plausibly happen in 2008, but that’s your call to make. It should also be brief, Jonathan Vos Post.<\/p>\n
My answer, from the world of physics: The Large Hadron Collider.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\nWhat do I fear I’ll be bloging about?<\/p>\n
The Large Hadron Collider. Not just because I’m kind of sick of all
\nthe talk about the future awesomeness of the LHC, but because there’s
\nalmost no way I could end up blogging at length about the LHC in 2008
\nand have it be good news.<\/p>\nUnder the most optimistic schedule, they’re not expected to start
\noperation until June of 2008, and there have been enough glitches
\nreported that I’m skeptical they’ll hit that date. Even if they do
\nstart in June, it will take months to get enough data to conclusively
\ndetect any new particles, and I’d be very surprised if they produced
\nany solid results by the end of the year.<\/p>\nIf I’m blogging a lot about the LHC in 2008, then, it will most likely
\nbe because something has gone wrong, and I don’t want to see that.
\nBlogging about the LHC in 2009<\/strong> could be good news, but in 2008, it’s
\nmore likely to be bad. I hope they start up smoothly in 2008, and
\ndon’t give me much to blog about before 2009.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nSo, what are you afraid of this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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