We're Doomed

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Dyne

Wow, and to think that people are afraid of religious nuts.

I'm sure that was a light-hearted jab. Nevertheless, the Large Hadron Collider aims to answer some very important questions regarding Particle Physics. These large particle accelerators are not cheap. The reason I say that we "NEED" to perform this experiment is because we built the LHC. You might ask, why did we build the LHC? Because the particle accelerator at Fermilab just wasn't big enough to find the missing particle they are looking for. The LHC is, from what I have been told, the last shot at finding the Higgs boson. If we find the Higgs boson I assume we will have made great leaps forward regarding physics. If we find out that there is no Higgs boson, it is my understanding that many of the upstanding Physics theories will fall apart. There are thousands of brilliant minds exhausting hours of education and research on the current models and theories that we have. I would like to see scientists make forward progress on the subject of physics, especially in my lifetime.

"Religious nuts" go to extremes often hiding behind a belief that cannot be disproved. Faith is just that, a belief in something outside of the ordinary, outside of the testable. I have faith, but I'm not going to use my faith to hate homosexuals or discriminate against women or carry out acts of terrorism.

The LHC is not the first particle accelerator. While there is certainly inherent risk in performing these experiments the LHC marks the next and presumably final evelotuion in testing the validity of the existence of the Higgs boson.

It's like our generations Galileo or Newton or Einstein.

Originally Posted by Jason1

Oh yes yes of course this is terrible, anything that might discredit creationism is obviously the devil itself and should be stopped at all costs!

Particle physics hardly discredits creationism.