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The world needs to be clear about the motives of the scientists who are getting particles to crash into each other.
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no brains, same story.
are you afraid to die, matyszczyk?
the Science fiction that people read on comic books is not the same as Science.
This article portrays all of the demeaning stereotypes that make the rest of the world -think- that americans are stupid illiterates. Which is totally unfair because we don't elect people like you to represent american thought.
No one "checked this people" when the US detonated the first atom bombs.
so?
Hatefully yours,
alleywayzalwayz
I dare a reply.
Read you're own comment and envy at your brilliance much do you?
Try to go to school and take a physics class for the love of god. Once you do that, you're opinions will carry more weight. However as I've learned, people who "educate" themselves on a particular subject are truly hard pressed to keep the same opinions they once held at the beginning of that journey. So I implore you to take that journey, and see what's got the rest of us "geeks" so excited.
Thank you.
Okay, so I play too many video games, I know.
ONE: Black hole? Note the fact that these are sub atomic particles and it is physically impossible for them to obtain so much mass that they collapse into themselves and create an enormous dent in the space time fabric that even light could not escape. Aside from that, gravity is such a weak force to begin with. Oh, and the period in this sentence contains trillions upon trillions of atoms.
TWO: Rap video. Anyone can make a video, so what? they were bored and wanted to have fun while doing something work related. Stupid point.
THREE: Anti-matter. It is pretty unlikely that they will find antimatter, and if we do, it could potentially be harnessed for great things.
FOUR: Writing. This is crap writing. Its far too opinionated, and you never ACTUALLY back up your argument, except with making fun of the Palin family, referencing a beautiful mind, and a potential olympics. Gee wiz.
Finally, if you would like to be ignorant and not understand what you are and where you came from, fine. But please understand that the science LHC is what will driving us further into the Twenty First century, and will help us understand so many things about the universe. We are too advanced to claim ignorance, but far too small to claim understanding. So instead of complaining about things you don;t understand, do some research and actually contribute to the world.
But in response to this particular writer, lets have it. What grounds say you do you have a leg to stand on to make such an assumption? The same leg that those throughout human history have had when they amassed a mob and burned the building with which the scientist has with the experiments we don't understand? The same philosophy that has kept us in the dark ages for nearly eight hundred years?
CNET is a source of information about technology to the masses and you let this tw*t write an article screaming out some inane scheme? By the way you jack-hole.. the rap video was made by someone else and you're spreading lies. Grounds for a lawsuit for defamation if I ever saw one.
The Truth of the Hadron Colider is this.. it is an experiment to replicate the same things that happen everyday except under a controlled environment with really expensive equipment to detect it when it happens so we may understand our universe more thoroughly.
Thousands of times a day, collisions much like this happen on Earth, in our Atmosphere, and even inside of you. Though you're still here to keep up with the drivel and nonsense of fear-mongery populated by psuedo-science fanatics who fear that every turn we take as a species is our end. However for the very last time, it isn't. Each turn in our understanding of existence has been met with harsh resistance by the same volleys of fanatical stupidity and arrogance as it has been for the past two thousand years.
People feared the steam engine for it was a devilish device that transported us faster then thirty miles per hour. The same with the combustion engine, fearing that if we accelerated past the point of 60mph and our faces were exposed to the winds our skin would surely peel off. The same people who opposed (and sadly still do) the creation of the computer for it is a modern marvel who must ultimately bring us doom.
Really now? CNET Management, fire this fool of a writer who has no place writing for what I thought was a destination for knowledge of technological news and events. Sadly I am disappointed.
not a very bright bunch of commentators are they pmgeer?
anyway, its all safe, a lady here has volunteered her butt to block the black hole. it'll be fine.
Just one question, why are the scientists actually controlling this from the ISS?
and a final fun thought - are we Schrodinger's cat just waiting for the lid of the box to be opened?
Nice... it begs the question, "If we're the cat then who's running the experiment?"
I appreciate all the incredible logical and scientifically accurate responses to this story; great knowledge, thanks for sharing, but I would suggest the efforts be spent directly on the sites that really do have people claiming that this will cause the end of days! Go tell Rossler why he's wrong and fight with some creationists who think this will reverse the flow of time. Laugh at this article and the idea that Russell Crowe not winning an award is even remotely relevant to this incredible scientific effort.
This was a funny story and somehow it made it to the top of Google News for this story; that's the real story here. The Google News algorithm got tricked into believing that trustworthy CNET had a real story on the experiment to put at the top of their page! Google got pranked just as much as the readers!
- by buggermenot September 10, 2008 7:30 PM PDT
- You, sir, have no clue what you're talking about!
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