dv8 Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 07:31AM
It's been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the
universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.
Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online
Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists
worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades.
The multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider will explore the tiniest particles
and come ever closer to re-enacting the big bang, the theory that a colossal
explosion created the universe.
woberto Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 07:45AM
Looking for the "God particle"...
jgoins Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 12:04PM
It comes online Wednesday, does that mean they will try it out then or another
day? Let me know when they plan to use it so I can mark it on my day planner,
I want to make sure I don't miss the end of the world.
Onyma Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 01:34PM
jgoins: you have some time yet, they will only be doing small tests for awhile
yet. At least several months before they make the blackhole that swallows our
solar system.
Placelowerplace Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 01:42PM
we are likely to piss off some space aliens with this thing and then we can go
G'hawd on them.......
zxz555 Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 04:08PM
it would be funny if some aliens arrived the week before and started hopping up
and down saying "don't do it!"
The Dude Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 04:12PM
There is no "God particle" to it. And the black hole spawn energy is
different. It is not a tool of Satan...directly.
But inasmuch as millions of people are starving or suffering from preventable or
curable ailments; this is proof of something not very nice.
I wonder what increased values of ignorance will ask/demand for more funding in
the name of ignorance, sorry, Satan, before the scope of the current
special-human genome is absorbed by the Norse-strain.
AND, it can't achieve the structure of a black hole or any such...there is such
a thing as too many cooks. It will teach us stuff, but not enough to balance the
cost.
The Dude, Tokyo
drdna Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 05:57PM
No, the universe doesn't end for another 3 years.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 07:29PM
All lessons in understanding more about ourselves and our world come at a cost,
and ... usually, the more the cost, the more we tend to learn, or at least
should expect to learn.
Odd how the norse race was mentioned here as mass detractors in our world, most
especially so when 1 race on the planet makes up 1/2 of the total population and
it's not the white one
Fox Mulder Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2008 11:03PM
I'm all for it. Collide them Hadrons!
Don't you pay attention?
The Mayan Calendar and the PNAC funded Cray Supercomputer have both pegged the
date as December, 18th, 2012. Or maybe it was 20th Century Fox. They're both
one big happy megacorporation now.....
90130_ Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2008 03:17AM
I'm as confused as jgoins now. Does this mean that all the minorities are going
to get sucked into a supermassive black hole? Will I have to find a new
gardener?
dv8 Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2008 03:23AM
The clock is ticking.
At 3:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, scientists on the Franco-Swiss border will flip the
switch on the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile underground ring where subatomic
particles will be accelerated to astonishing speeds and then smashed into each
other.
It'll be months before any usable data comes out from the experiments, but the
so-called "Big Bang machine" already has physicists salivating at the
prospect of unlocking the mysteries of the universe — and many other people
worried it'll create a black hole or strange self-replicating particle that will
gobble up the Earth.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2008 03:29AM
They said the same thing before the first atomic bomb test.
Everyone thought the atmosphere was going to burn up and take the earth with
it.
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jgoins Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2008 11:14AM
Well DV8 are we still here? I will be sure and pos5 something on Dec. 19 2012
so i can tell if we are still here then as well.
Monster1 Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2008 04:32PM
The Dude said:
"There is no "God particle" to it. And the black hole spawn
energy is different. It is not a tool of Satan...directly.
But inasmuch as millions of people are starving or suffering from preventable or
curable ailments; this is proof of something not very nice.
I wonder what increased values of ignorance will ask/demand for more funding in
the name of ignorance, sorry, Satan, before the scope of the current
special-human genome is absorbed by the Norse-strain.
AND, it can't achieve the structure of a black hole or any such...there is such
a thing as too many cooks. It will teach us stuff, but not enough to balance the
cost.
The Dude, Tokyo"
I agree with Dude, they have built these Colliders for a while and they only get
bigger and add more zeroes to the cost, 3,800 Millions on this one that could
have done more for Humanity, and regarding the Big Bang theory, it is only that
and no one has ever been able to prove it or will (dumb theory if you ask me)
........
jgoins Report This Comment Date: September 11, 2008 11:37AM
Money is wasted all around the world, it is just status quo. If somone comes
up with a stupid idea and he can find funding for it then it will proceed.
There is nothing we can do to stop insane people from throwing money away.
Placelowerplace Report This Comment Date: September 11, 2008 06:04PM
Money isn't real
Hashman Report This Comment Date: September 11, 2008 11:00PM
What a total waste of time and money. Who the Fuck Cares about the big bang.
There are people starving on this planet that are going to sleep alot better
knowing how the big bang thingy works now.
Placelowerplace Report This Comment Date: September 12, 2008 01:11AM
they wouldn't be starving if some asshole didn't come along and give them
medicine. now they should get birth control pills
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: September 12, 2008 03:47PM
Yeah and I bet all you do-gooder, let's-whine-about-scientific-progress types
are all out there doin your best, givin 50+% of your income and time towards
solvin the problems of the world, right .... sure you are
Let me remind you cats of one very contrite yet meaningful phrase relevent to
all your pie-in-the-sky ideology : If you're not part of the solution, you ARE
an integral part of the problem
Placelowerplace Report This Comment Date: September 12, 2008 07:52PM
amen to that MrKim
