--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '1999-11-16T12:38:33' draft: false title: This summer, news made the --- This summer, news made the popular press that a physics experiment scheduled for this month in New York could destroy the planet (see my [September 16th entry](/legacy/weblog/archive/1999_09_12_archive.html)). The laboratory commissioned a study to see what the possible effect might be, and they have found that the accelerator[won't destroy the world after all.](http://www.sciam.com/1999/1299issue/1299scicit3.html) The accelerator will go on-line by the end of the year.