Comments on: Goyer on FlashForwards “Broad Humor” – Five’s UK Coverage – Science Behind Sawyer’s Novel

By: Roco

Roco — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:14:32 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Robert. That is a pretty glaring mistake on their part. Thanks for pointing it out as I didn't catch their error.

By: FlashForward

FlashForward — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:14:32 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Robert. That is a pretty glaring mistake on their part. Thanks for pointing it out as I didn't catch their error.

By: robertjsawyer

robertjsawyer — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:34:34 +0000

Thanks for the comments in the video, Peter Jacobs. However, the title of the book is FLASHFORWARD, not FAST FORWARD, and despite what you say about “in the novel working with ALICE is depicted as a few people sitting around …,” that's just not true.

The novel says, “Lloyd was director of the collaborative group of almost a thousand physicists using the ALICE ('A Large Ion Collider Experiment') detector” [Tor paperback, p. 13, i.e., the third page of the first chapter], and the book vividly shows the large, international, collaborative nature of those working on projects at CERN, as well as making quite clear that it took more than a decade to build the LHC and years to plan each experiment.