I've said this many times before but I'm going to say it again.

A scientific theory is based on extensive research, extensive testing and extensive confirmation.  A scientific theory can be used to accurately explain the past and accurately predict the future.  It's not like in your favorite Agatha Christie novel where the detective says he has a "theory", in which case it means "a possible explanation for the situation".

If you say that something like Hawking radiation is "just a theory", all you're basically doing is admitting you don't understand what a scientific theory is in the first place.

Also to add to this, DJ Soup, gravity, that thing that I'm sure you agree is holding you down right now close to the Earth, is also a theory.

Just because something is a theory doesn't mean it's incorrect, it just means we haven't necessarily found a missing piece of the puzzle (there's a lot of them) to make it an official law yet.

No, gravity exists and is real, the theories that can explain it are abstract and could be either wrong or right

collisions like this have happened 10^31 times already.

seriously

10000000000000000000000000000000 times this experiment has been repeated because of cosmic radiation

it looks like everything still exists. so????

basically yeah people who say "LOL THE WORLD'S GONNA END SCIENCE KILLED US ALL" are just a bunch of asses who want to sound like they know shit. these people feel good about themselves for thinking they know everything now because science is going to kill us all. they don't. i hate those fucking people

anyways i am pumped about the results of this thing. it's spectacular to think about how physicists have been coming up with all these goddamned THEORIES and none of it has been proved, ever. with the LHC there's a chance some of these theories will actually become facts. or scientists could all be wrong. again. like that time when we thought that everything orbited around the earth, remember? hahahaha. man we were so wrong.

aahhaahahahahhaaha you made this RIGHT AFTER my joke post. i'm poking fun at all you couch physicists

The Safety Assessment Group writes, “Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists.”

100,000 is a bit different to what you said, unless the LHC dudes are young earth theorists.

to say that anyone who's a little worried about this is an ass is pretty naive considering the sheer size of the thing. like, even if it doesn't produce a BLACK HOLE imagine if the entire collider collapsed in on itself. there's an awful lot of people living on top of that thing, what about CANCER from SUPERPOWERED ELECTRONS, surely one flick of this is worse than living under powerlines.

i'm pretty sure the number 10^31 is the number of times nature has performed this experiment ever, not just on Earth.

i'm not exactly a couch physicist i just find this stuff interesting. i suck at physics seriously

and since when have i said anyone who's a little worried about this is an ass? i'm saying those who are taking it way too far (ie THE WORLD'S GUNNA END) are asses. if anything i'm sure there will be problems and stuff, but they aren't going to be EARTH DESTROYING.

aahhaahahahahhaaha you made this RIGHT AFTER my joke post. i'm poking fun at all you couch physicists

100,000 is a bit different to what you said, unless the LHC dudes are young earth theorists.

to say that anyone who's a little worried about this is an ass is pretty naive considering the sheer size of the thing. like, even if it doesn't produce a BLACK HOLE imagine if the entire collider collapsed in on itself. there's an awful lot of people living on top of that thing, what about CANCER from SUPERPOWERED ELECTRONS, surely one flick of this is worse than living under powerlines.

ok well doesn't that apply to any and every scientific lab? WHAT IF THE LAB AT MY COLLEGE BLOWS UP AND SPRAYS TOXIC WASTE EVERYWHERE 

hopefully god will be merciful on those scientists.. they are afterall probably athiests 

ok well doesn't that apply to any and every scientific lab? WHAT IF THE LAB AT MY COLLEGE BLOWS UP AND SPRAYS TOXIC WASTE EVERYWHERE 

hopefully god will be merciful on those scientists.. they are afterall probably athiests 

oh do thousands of people have their houses built on your college science lab? it's sweden and france so i couldn't care less, but i'm sure someone might.

have you guys not seen pictures of how absolutely massive this thing is? do you guys not know how much power it's going to use?

the problem is there is absolutely no evidence of any possible structural failure or any disaster of any type that would be likely to happen. People are all getting worked up on POSSIBLE BLACK HOLE... when there's absolutely no reason to think that it would SUCK US ALL UP or hell even NOT EVAPORATE IN LESS THAN A SECOND

global warming boom i win

i hope you're jokin

you're using the same argument as anti-global warming dudes

the problem with that is there is actual evidence supporting global warming. in this case there is no actual evidence supporting some imminent disaster in the LHC.

i can't believe you'd say that, that's despicable. first you say global warming is a farce, then you claim you want evidence that the LHC will cause some disaster. that's all you scientists want, i bet you'd murder everyone in africa to find out which way a poop rolls. people like you make me sick

what use will the evidence be once you have your precious BLACK HOLE huh? we'll all be DEAD, including you.

it'll kill all the children ryan and goldenratio want to hurt children could an admin or someone please ban them before they spread this ideal to others!!

I agree please someone save the little children from these godless heathen

you people make me sick

climbtree why do you lie all the time....