If I could prevent only one of these events, I would prevent the lottery.
I’m assuming that this is in a world where there are no payoffs to the LHC; we could imagine a world in which it’s decided that switching the LHC on is too risky, but before it is mothballed a group of rogue physicists try to do the riskiest experiment they can think of on it out of sheer ennui.
If I could prevent only one of these events, I would prevent the lottery.
I’m assuming that this is in a world where there are no payoffs to the LHC; we could imagine a world in which it’s decided that switching the LHC on is too risky, but before it is mothballed a group of rogue physicists try to do the riskiest experiment they can think of on it out of sheer ennui.