Christians and the LHC at CERN

[KevinM1]

The topic of this thread has been already addressed in his thread.  You don't even have to read through 3 full pages to get to the fact that the LHC is not powerful enough to destroy the world.  Even the larger one that was started in the U.S. was not nearly powerful enough to do that.  (Maybe that is why the U.S. cancelled the project. )  

But if one wants to read about the specifics of what people were afraid of, here are a couple of articles:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science...lider7.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_...xperiments

Thanks for sharing this!
my main question with this is why christians are freaking out about this and why they think there is a big conspiracy involving CERN, Sept 23/24 and the rapture and the blood moon... im pretty sure I answered my own question with saying conspiracy theory and basically people looking for meaning hard enough and making connections with stuff that would otherwise not mean anything...

There's a big part of the evangelical wing that believes in conspiracy theories.  The blood moon thing you mentioned makes me think that the idiots you encountered believe John Hagee's bullshit about four blood moons in a year.

Beyond that, you need to remember that the devoutly religious are fearful of science, even though they don't understand any of it, and perpetually believe we're in the End Times.  Add it all up, and you have idiocy stew.

[ignoramus]

Stimbo wrote:
 It's pathetically self-defeating when you consider that rapture retards should be welcoming the end of the world. In fact, they should be on the front lines of making it happen.

They should Stim, but ironically, just having the scientific knowledge to create a Large collider would nullify the reason for creating it in the first place!

[Cyberman]

A reverse Dunning-Kruger. Well played, sirrah.

[Jackie]

Effharchdcgdcht. They claim.......

Gibberish

[Anomalocaris]

Well, with our resident CERN physicist and black hole avoidance expert at home changing diapers, we are all doomed.

Doomed, I say.

I have just found the missing Dark Matter!!1!

What is it?   Christianity? Islam?  Neither contains any substance, and yet exert a pressure proportional to the number of adherents.   sounds like strong candidates for the dark matter to me

[Alex K]

I have just found the missing Dark Matter!!1!

What is it?   Christianity? Islam?  Neither contains any substance, and yet exert a pressure proportional to the number of adherents.   sounds like strong candidates for the dark matter to me

Guess again...

[Anomalocaris]

What is it?   Christianity? Islam?  Neither contains any substance, and yet exert a pressure proportional to the number of adherents.   sounds like strong candidates for the dark matter to me

Guess again...

Ahh, that would be dark energy, my bad.

Dark matter must be the bible or Koran, then, since they give no illumination, are susceptible to no illumination, and yet reveal their presence by the pull they exert on the confused and delusional.