The stupidity surrounding the switching on of the LHC has possibly reached its apex in, predictably, the BBC’s Have Your Say thread on the subject:
What did they do with all the muck they dug out?
I suspect they put it in the sea which will account for rising sea levels.
They then blamed the sea levels on global warming, all very neat!!!
i am only one voice isnt that the way the song goes but if everyone on this planet signed a petition and gave it to the governments of the world perhaps just perhaps we can stop this madness. i was physically sick last night so terrified. i want this planet to survive and everything in it. Lets stop it now before anything goes wrong. Already the cryogenics have failed on the first attempt what do you think when they crash those particles with temps hotter than the suns heart 100,000 times.
listen no one cares anymore about the big bang at the end of the day and quite frankly i am annoyed with the fact that all this blah has been government funded so im paying my taxes so scientist can play with toys and try and blow up the world (if anything does go wrong) leave the world alone. rather than concentrate on what people think of the big bang concentrate on knife crimes and gang teenagers, with that money the government could of changed a few things in this day and age its rubbish !
I’m not entirely sure about what exactly is wrong with people who somehow need to have it explained to them why trying to find out about the origin and structure of the entire fucking universe might be worthwhile or interesting.
Aside from the ‘it’s boring, who cares’, ‘when will scientists admit the Big Bang is nonsense?’, ‘we should be spending this money on HOSPITALS’, and ‘why do the scientists want to kill us?’ type comments, the saddest sentiment might be the proud ignorance of comments like this one:
I think leaving a few things unknown is a good thing…allows for some speculation and imagination!
Aarrrgh.
None of the above comments, however, can beat this bit of rambling for sheer incoherence:
Unless speed of light is imparted to hadrons, they are on a wild goose chase. The results will just not be able to penetrate beyond the blinds. Consider a man being aroused to a point close to the climax, leaving him just short of ejaculation. Will he be ever able to describe orgasm and post-orgasmic hangover or will his body chemistry match with that of a ejaculating male? So attaining speed of light is paramount to their objective else its just good enough for Guinness book.
It’s a good day for science, perhaps less so for humanity.
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