Going back to the original point: Why do breakdowns of the LHC provide evidence that the LHC destroys the universe? The ‘destroys the universe’ hypothesis gains no ground on the ‘sabotage’ hypothesis nor the ‘engineers building something for the first time ever make errors’ hypothesis.
The only thing it does is falsify the ‘Everything goes off without a hitch’ hypothesis, and makes the set of ‘everything goes off with n or fewer hitches’ hypotheses less likely.
Unless the breakdowns are such that they would be unlikely under those hypotheses, they don’t gain ground. I do seem to recall hearing something once about a sandwich getting dropped into a piece of the apparatus, which screwed things up for a while. That may not have actually happened, but that’s the sort of event that would (under certain versions of the anthropic principle) provide evidence that the LHC destroys the world.
ADDITION: It would also be strong evidence if the LHC suffered these sorts of breakdowns when we attempted certain types of collisions, but not others.
Going back to the original point: Why do breakdowns of the LHC provide evidence that the LHC destroys the universe? The ‘destroys the universe’ hypothesis gains no ground on the ‘sabotage’ hypothesis nor the ‘engineers building something for the first time ever make errors’ hypothesis.
The only thing it does is falsify the ‘Everything goes off without a hitch’ hypothesis, and makes the set of ‘everything goes off with n or fewer hitches’ hypotheses less likely.
Unless the breakdowns are such that they would be unlikely under those hypotheses, they don’t gain ground. I do seem to recall hearing something once about a sandwich getting dropped into a piece of the apparatus, which screwed things up for a while. That may not have actually happened, but that’s the sort of event that would (under certain versions of the anthropic principle) provide evidence that the LHC destroys the world.
ADDITION: It would also be strong evidence if the LHC suffered these sorts of breakdowns when we attempted certain types of collisions, but not others.