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Xymox said:This is NOT disrespecting any of the fine and frankly awesome people at CERN.
Of course it is. It's showing utter contempt. You are arguing that they are sufficiently bad scientists that they will miss a major discovery, and sufficiently bad scientists that a bunch of amateurs would do a better job. Think about the football analogy - if you said that you've never played in the NFL, or even in college, but you could score ten touchdowns in one quarter against the Colts or the Saints, what do you think people's reactions would be?
Now imagine you making the same statement in the locker room of the Colts or Saints. Like Warren said, you will have a hard time attracting real scientists to your site if you treat them in such an exasperating manner.
I also note that there is a huge difference between "having ideas" and "discovering something in the data that the researchers missed".
There's another point that Redbelly could have mentioned. People can "rediscover" old wrong things. About once a month we have someone post here that they have a revolutionary new theory of gravity. Except that it's not true - it was first proposed in 1690.
If you want to discover something new, you need to learn what is already known. That means devoting the time to study it.