Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-10-02]: Tevatron particle accelerator is shut down, after government funding has ran out [source: BBC News]. It was about time! Science is interesting as Dawkins says, but whoever needs billions of dollars in equipment to find something useless that he doesn’t even find at the end, can… fuck off! (paraphrasing the “Science is interesting, if you don't agree you can fuck off” hubristic quote of Dawkins) After all, Einstein of Newton did not need accelerators to find the two most important theories of all time…(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
