I find it interesting that you should ask the third question the way you did.

I have toiled with similar issues on other threads (see Symmetry’s “Code Crackers Wanted” plus PBS’s discussions regarding “Kryptos”).

Reading about this incident what surprises me is that failure detection was not designed in the fist place. Were you so budget tight ? Did some politician decided this would be cut?
No failure mode analysis was done ?

I’m not doing any finger pointing, I’m just curious

I have another question!
I love science and have been reading for so long about the LHC project, how many years ago was it proposed ? It seems to me it might be close to 30!

3rd question ))
In all these years I never saw any journalist talking about God’s particle up to the last weeks or so before the first tur on. Maybe I missed some news but anyway I find it strange.

When I first read about the single electron interference, I guess 15 years ago, I thought that God existed just because of it. The idea that matter and information affect one another in such a weird way just amazes me.

I also have always been impressed by Shanon’s theorem saying information brought by x is inversely proportional to the probability of occurrence of x.

So my big question is there an expected relation with all these ? Information, matter, quantum mechanics, God ? Is this just journalist hype or does the intuition of physicists leads to some serious intuitions ?

Please don’t tell me the answer is 47

Thanks for just even trying to think about answering, I’m just too curious

Michel