Large Hadron Rap

@Avicenna9:
If you add up all the money and effort that is invested in short term actions, you'll see, that the investment in the LHC isn't *that* gigantic and in the end we also need long term solutions just as much as we need immediate ones.

Furthermore I think (just like other people here) it's not things like the LHC that should be cancel(l)ed in favo(u)r of solutions to the existential threats to humanity.

@veshtericata:
Science bases on things like facts, figures and well-founded assumptions, but never on blind faith, so how can it be a religion?

Your "PS" just shows you don't understand science! Scientists know they can be wrong and don't expect anyone to pray at all. It's just the religions that claim they'd act in the name of some unprovable omniscient entity that never fails and therefore have to be followed blindly.

Who compared electricity to the Big Bang?

Murdats was just referring to the early stages of research on electricity, when nobody could tell which benefits it would bring ... but look at it now!
And it's the same thing with the LHC: today the possible benefits aren't clear, but as the electricity example shows, this simply isn't a good reason not to do it.

And as for the "Big Bang" thing: how can you use a tiny map to find your way through a large city ... even the numbers don't line up!

Oh yes, we will ... some day ... but not because of a black hole created in Switzerland or France.

I understand what youre saying but literally every scientific endeavour was preceded by people saying exactly that. They know what theyre doing, theyre just curious like the rest of us.

I guess so... Thanks for the polite reply. It just freaks me out... along with making puppies glow...

No probs bro!