Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03...anist_lawsuit/

A lawsuit has been filed in Hawaii in an attempt to hold up the start of operations by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) atom-smasher on the French-Swiss border.

A colourful American botanist, teacher, former biologist and sometime physicist says (in outline) that the LHC may rip a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum and so destroy the Earth. He wants the US government to act now and delay the LHC's startup while a new safety review is carried out.

Walter L Wagner and his fellow Hawaiian Luis Sancho, according to a report on MSNBC, filed suit in the Hawaii federal court last Friday. The men are worried about one of several planet-busting physicists' nightmares being unleashed in the LHC's bowels deep beneath the Franco-Swiss countryside. (According to Wagner's website, as of publication, the LHC is located "near Generva, Switzerland".)

It's surely one of the most endearing things about the USA; that they feel that going in front of a judge in some shack of a courthouse in small-town America gives them the right to legislate on matters that happen thousands of miles away and are completely out of their jurisdiction.

Endearing eh? Is that the word that springs to mind? Maybe I just spell it differently.

I predict he be able to delay the project until 12/21/2012.