Comments on: Why the Large Hadron Collider must be stopped

The world needs to be clear about the motives of the scientists who are getting particles to crash into each other.

[MoniBoloni]

Looks like someone forgot to take their Meds today.

[Dr.LAL]

Brilliantly written....I am waiting to hear about the "god" particle....

[DBGuy]

Wow. Clearly nobody has ever heard of satire. I thought it was hillarious - in stark contrast to the sanctimonious attitude of the posters!

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Thank You, DBGuy,

You are very kind. Sane, too.

The world's a funny old place, isn't it? Or at least it was before the experiments got out of hand...

Chris

[drk02]

Okay Chicken Little, first of all, the rap is obviously a joke and is not meant to be taken seriously. Secondly, you seem to be afraid of this experiment simply because you dont understand it. Shouldn't you better educate yourself before you decide that this will cause the end of the world?

[cfree87]

I am a creationist, and I still think the LHC is a brilliant idea. Those who are afraid that this LHC will jeapordize their religion or creationist ideas must not have very much faith in their creator. I think the LHC will only help to show that there is a creator who did speak, and out of nothing came everything. See the first book in the Torah, and in the Bible, Genesis 1. This will tell you what you are looking for.

[jlsdev]

Main Entry:
Pronunciation:
\?f?th\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural faiths
Etymology:
Middle English feith, from Anglo-French feid, fei, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust ? more at bide
Date:
13th century

1 a: allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions2 a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof

Statement: "I believe in God"
Q: why?
A: because the bible says so
Q: why do you believe the bible?
A: because it was written/inspired by God

Ummm, circular reasoning?

[fellcoda]

wow. are you serious? is this column satire? i thought c-net was a bit more reputable. media-zombies would eat the brains of science for the chance of staring at just one more half-time commercial. your column title is not supported and you have no authority.

or perhaps we should inform the physicists and engineers, et alii, at cern that chris matyszczyk from buttfack, u.s.a. has a bad feeling about this.


and don't call on "techies" for a mutiny on science.

[billmosby]

You're a wonderful humorist. Wonderful! Do you normally write for the Onion?

[EPRalaboehm]

Sometimes I think opening the internet to all is a bad idea... case in point.... idiots like you can post asinine comments about things you know nothing about, that fuel hysteria to a greatly uninformed public. Perhaps a few comments here will encourage you to learn a bit about particle physics and black holes. Who knows, you may learn something.

[gonewest08]

i guess everyone needs a hobby.

[FordAst]

You sure aren't intelligent. Scientists know what they are doing, so you better go and design something. You think you are a leader? You are nothing. Your insolence .. whew.. If you want to stop them, go and show your designs to scientists. May be the would be more interested in them than the project!

[jdmdaily]

haha wow, Guy do you realize you wouldn't even have a dvd player or your Ipod if it wasn't for Quantum Mechanics lol. We have particles traveling with a lot more force than this bombarding the earth everyday. If it weren't for guys like Einstein, Richard Feynman, Schroedinger, Planck etc. Oh man in the words of the great Mr. T "I pitty the Fool" that wrote this article. P.S. Goodluck walking through the dark.

[ksfreezer]

Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people have the apearance of being bright. Then they speak and sound so dumb.

[junkactivism]

I know being controversial in blogs brings readers and comments, (it did get me to click, admittedly).... but seriously, are you writing this for attention or are you really ignorant about the physics behind this thing? I've never been more excited about a science experiment in my lifetime!!

And the rap video, come on, you're WAY over-reacting. That's just science dorks having fun, not to mention their physics are much better than their dancing and rap skills.... maybe you'd want Ludacris, P Diddy, and Nelly building a Large Hadron Collider???

Ever know any science people personally? Some are egotistical, uptight folks, but many of them are work hard-play hard types and they DO in fact have a sense of humor. Not to mention spending 12 hours a day in that hole in the ground wearing jump suits and hard hats would require a little creativity just to feel normal. Give 'em a break.

[MRcool2035]

Sweet lord dude chill out, nothing is going to happen, and even if that minute possibility was to come up, chances are what would happen would be so quick that you wouldn't feel anything, so what's the big deal? besides, it's not like the first time this type of device has been used it's just the first time they used one so big, whatever happens will just happen in bigger scale, if nothing happened so far on the smaller ones, nothing will happen on the big one.

[Quogueelectric]

Somebody bomb these idiots before they destroy the earth.

[mailjunkmail]

From will or not will happen with this, I'm positive many of the world?s governments are closely watching this. If any part of this can be used to dominate one another it will be extracted from this experiment.

[Quogueelectric]

Yeah wait right there while I build a 17 mile collider arround your army base so I can blow it up in 6 yrs.

[CNET_AMB]

I dont know about any of you. But I say let them figure out about this anti-matter thing and kill us all who cares anyway >_>.... the main thing we should be thinking about is why they wasted around 9 or 10 Billion dollars to do this rather than sharing that around the world to the poor and the unfortunate.. go ahead and hate on this comment i made but i just saw this and i had to write something.. and im not going back on this website soo.. too bad..

[Bradosaurus]

Since this is a blog/opinion, and not a real news article, CNET should associate itself in any way with it. Though this is not a news article, it is being presented as one on Google News. Chris Matyszczyk, please do not post anything further. Please do not dissemantate your opinion onto us. Your mother new better than to give her opinion on something she knew nothing about. Learn from your mistakes. Your assumption, "Then they discover, while doing the thing that they claim to know they are doing, that they are doing something entirely different," bears the same uneducated, sensationalist and thoughtless rationale that would easily merit your membership to some of the most nefarious groups of bigots in the world.

And that's what you present yourself as: a bigot of science.

[BerkeleyBrett]

Well, if it will make you feel any better, I am personally offering a $100,000 bet to *anyone* that in a 5-year time frame, the Large Hadron Collider will NOT generate a black hole that will instantaneously collapse the earth.

Heck, make it $200,000.

An exciting new phase of physics is dawning!

[FordAst]

You sure aren't intelligent. Scientists know what they are doing, so you better go and design something. You think you are a leader? You are nothing. Your insolence .. whew.. If you want to stop them, go and show your designs to scientists. May be the would be more interested in them than the project!