More Large Hadron Collider Funny Business
Posted by David Bruggeman on November 8, 2009
I’m behind in my Comedy Central Hour of Power watching, and just finished seeing Stephen Colbert tangle with astrophysicist Brian Cox. Stephen spent a segment making fun of the continued troubles at the Large Hadron Collider, ending with the assertion that the problems result from sabotage from the future. (I’d missed the business with the computer networks.) Then, in what is arguably out-of-character for the show, Stephen proceeded to have a discussion with Professor Cox that managed to make sense of advanced particle physics. The good professor even noticed. It was nice to see him literally call bollocks on some Large Hadron Collider theories. But dismissing food science as not real science was not so cool.
The thing of it is, Stephen managed all of this prior to the bird messing up the works, so he may well revisit the topic this week. Whether he does or not, science makes up a good chunk of the October 28 episode, so why not watch the whole thing?
