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.

[-Max_Power-]

I recommend that you go into therapy, and take a high school physics course.

[heyporkupine]

I watched the rap video. Wowee. I wish science would invent a way for people to "unwatch" things. Wow.

[jvanderloo]

wow. FAIL!
I especially like the part where Chris compares science experiments with political experiments ("Yugoslavia was an experiment. Look what happened to that.").
Just so you understand chris: APPLES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE FOR COMPARISON WITH BRICKS!

[gsr151]

I thought gravity makes everything fall at the same speed? including apples and bricks

[daveyinaz]

Great piece of writing. Don't listen to the other simpletons on the comment board, I'm almost 100% positive that all of them have no ground on which to stand on when commenting on your intelligence...I mean half of them can't even spell properly. Keep up the good work.

P.S. They are all probably just as scared as you.

[pachuli714]

Honestly, I love the arrogance of scientists. The Big Bang Theory is nothing more than just that -- a theory. We truly have no idea how the universe was formed and attempting to "recreate" it is proof of that arrogance.

What concerns me is what will inevitably result from this experiment. No, not black holes forming everywhere. I worry about the weapons that will be developed from it. Splitting the atom resulted in development of the Atomic Bomb. What can we hope to come from this experiment? Can they really find no better use of the billions of dollars spent building this structure for this test?

[Devoidoid]

Chris Matyszczyk is a visionary, a visionary I say! The Art Garfamudis of science!

[sl6502]

Boo! There's a monster under your bed.

[rapturd]

Dont you fools realize that the collider was started exactly one year before 09/09/09?
If you fail to see the significence of this then just turn your monitor upside down.
Thats right! THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!!!!
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[nextseller]

CNET is cruising the dark waters of ignorance normally reserved for the anti-journalistic yahoos on Fox Fake News. This guy's post should not have been given this attention. Shame on you, CNET.

[twenty3sky]

I think perhaps you may have watched one too many Marvel comic book series turned Blockbuster film. There is not some laughing maniac drunk on power behind this experiment. Experiments like this are done in stages, observed, calculated and recalculated. I too had fears when I heard the concept of this experiment but those were alleviated once I spent some time doing research on the who what why where how of CERN. I suggest anyone who is worried do the same rather than write misinformation which preys on people who are having doubts.

[psychosax]

FYI that video was made by Grad students to help explain to us "normal" people what they are up to.. The actual scientist for these experiments were the teachers. Just in case you didn't read that yesterday or the day before when they orginally ran the articles for the collider...

[AkilahK]

"I am not an intelligent designer." Nor are you a scientist, or thinker. I want to know what the universe is made of.

What, by the way, is the criteria for blogging on cnet? Can any old crazy opinion qualify? Here's my blog idea:

I hate transistors. Someone should stop transistors. There's nothing wrong with tubes, but no one really knows how this quantum stuff works.

[JeromeThomas]

Matyszczyk, you say "I am not an intelligent designer. Nor am I a resident of France or Switzerland." Right. With that last name I pegged you instantly as a mime or Olympic Yodeler. You should have added "I am an adult moron and totally devoid of story ideas, who prefers to coattail on current stories with a mislearding headline and mindless blabber to create a few click-throughs." Whatever they pay you for this drivel, it's too much.

[Boldtalker]

Just as opposites attract, sarcastic journalists and paranoid realists must brought together in the blog-o-sphere where hot air will develop into hurricane force winds and blow the Alps to Cleveland. Good luck with those bunny slopes boys and girls. Countdown to Armageddon is 21 days, 12 hours, 27 minutes and 13 seconds. Bend over and kiss.... (well, you know...)

[scorpiooooooh]

Chris,

I am sort of with ya on the unteathered geek SS Squad messing with particle physics like Mengela messed with live human beings Scientists are odd creatures, I used to work with some back when Bell Labs still existed.. I made a joke, not a very good one but a joke none the less that these scientists are like dogs, Why dose a dog lick itself? they do it because they can. Same goes for scientists, they are licking themselvs in a most unpleasant way.

I am no scientist myself, but I do like science, BIG science. I have been trying to wrap my brain around Kurzweile's writings, The Singularity is Near in particular. The one thing that I gather from his books is this. The universe is a pulsing something or other. It expands and collapses in on itself over who knows how many years, centuries, millenia, eons...yada yada with or without a hadron collider.

Maybe this is like the movie Groundhog Day and the imminent implosion, explosion, or end of existance will be just one more attempt at life evolving from nothing (or negative nothing or negative nothing times infinity squared by my next door neighbores SS number) then again into something that thinks it's smart enough to figure out the meaning of life until one day it lrealizes it just has to be nice to each other.....or something like that.

Most children panic when they learn the great thermonuclear reactor many prayed to in times gone by will eventually run out of fuel. Even more scary is that it will turn our pretty marbled terrarium into dust when it expands and envelops mankinds habitat in a blazing inferno. A friend who is a Kurzweil fan like me said "by then we will have ditched this planet and moved on. I said "as what, silicon based life forms that evolved from meatbags who had enough money to make the transition from blood and guts beings to silicon based humanoids or androids when we become cyberized"?

Transfering a human's conciousness into a computer is not far off the horizon. So anyway, I told him, all it would do is delay the inevetable. He asked why, and I said "because the universe pulses, the moment before the big bang or 0 (zero), the chunk of whatever it was that created existance as we know it reached critical mass and went bang", so they tell me. Once the universe expands to it's full potential it will be 1 (the number one)...anyone get where I'm going with this yet. I'm not even sure if I do. Anyway, theoretically, the universe goes bang....suck....bang....suck....bang etc. My theory is that we are not alone in this multiverse, there are many many many many other universes around us. And with all the 1/0 stuff gouing on, I kinda figured our universe is is just one measley little logic gate in something far bigger than I could possibly imagine.

The point I'm trying to make is that we are all doomed one way or another. it's just a matter of time......no pun intended.

Scorpio.

[bouchard3775]

Although my knowledge of particle physics is limited, I still wonder who came up with the idea of spending 5 billion on experimenting with subatomic particles. Didn't they ever stop to think- WE COULD FEED A LOT OF STARVING KIDS WITH THIS MONEY!

[pogosticker]

Wow, it just seemed like you tried way to hard to add in all of those pop culture refrences

[ScienceSupporter]

The author, who has no physics credentials, and does not understand particle physics wants to stop European physics experiments because physicists might discover something new. It is bad enough that the US Congress stopped the construction of our own Super Conducting Supercollider (SSC) in Texas. The SSC would have made it possible for a generation of US physics to be on the cutting edge of particle physics research, but now we have silly ludites pretending to be Chicken LIttle, with admonitions that Europeans not be permitted to do what we were too short-sighted to do. Instead of particle physics, we invested three trillion dollars in Iraq, which is the biggest sucking black hole humanity is ever likely to find. When European discoveries outdistance a scientifically backward United States, we will have no one to blame but ourselves! If the United States can no longer lead, at least it needs to get out of the way--and that includes misguided, uninformed journalists.

[alleywayzalwayz]

the speed of light, and further, is unachievable.

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[allenmarshall]

Be civil. Where does everyone get the idea that they can be so mean? It amazes me that supposedly intelligent and decent people can be so mean spirited. I blame the media for making people mad and making it so easy to denigrate the undeserving.

[General_Zod]

This article is retarded. I don't mean like down-syndrome retarded, but more like uneducated, close-minded, believes everything he sees on TV type of retarded.

Get a library card... or better yet, use your computer to do research, not look at porn.

You live in a bubble.

Please don't have kids.