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.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/09/2008 04:55AM by 90130_.
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
