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- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38I recently saw Jon Stewart perform live and he told an anecdote about how this type of experiment will be what brings an end to the world. He asserted that the last words ever spoken by a human will be "hey, it worked!"
- warlord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Don't Panic...
I hope the Big Bang is some sort of scientific gang bang. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14No, that's what you call a group of rich people engaging in ego-masturbation.
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@SkeletaLlama
This isn't like in the movies, where some hapless scientest goes off on his own agenda and ends up making a really big mistake costing thousands of lives.
This is just another science experiment, no more dangerous than playing with a bunsen burner. All they are doing is seeing how a lots of particles interact when they collide and expand at fast speeds.
People should take a step back every once in a while and really think of the reality of a bunch of scientists ending the world (universe even?).
I bet only the people that do not know how this works, will be against it.
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@ThndrShk2k
They are not making a universe at all. They are testing how particles behave in the same kind of conditions after the Big Bang. - NoodlyAppendage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Hopefully they'll give us enough warning to put some earplugs in
- kevin.gc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Wait a minute... The Big Bang was the beginning of the universe as we know it right? Well, I guess we could use a new universe...
- GimmeYoShoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9lol i'm glad to see everyone giving their opinions of whats going to happen if we do this as if most of everyone here are smarter then those scientist.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5lol careful, we're probably being monitored right now =)
but seriously, its off topic, but http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=scientology has hours of fun.
My favorite: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3498301893935731850&q=e-meter
It's a video from scientology about their E-Meter's...hahaha... i don't see how that helps them with their "we're not crazy" stance.
Anything @ xenutv.com is good though... some people spend their life studying fish or monkeys... i've spent years studying scientologists... and they are much more fun. - JoshM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6As long as they don't blow up this universe I'm good.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Insulting L. Ron?
What are you afraid of? Are you a child molester? Do you molest children? What are your sins?
(haha, sorry, re-enacting a couple videos i saw about scientologists)
http://xenutv.com/originals/4th.htm
(Skip to about 2:00 for the fun) - boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just hope it doesn't leak. You don't want to get universe on you.
- xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Scientology?
- bondo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@PunkRampant: if there was no time, no space, and no energy, how would "a couple of particles" collide to create the universe? As you would know from your quality high school education a collision between objects implies time, space and energy.
- GuitaristTom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5first, how come whenever we come closer to proving the lack of an existance of God, someone has to be "playing God" or "defying tradition" or something
second, id hardly call L. Ron a scientist...bad science fiction writer is more suiting
if this works...and we create a universe in a tiny space, then couldn't the end of Men in Black be true...not that it's not a possibility anyway - l33tspam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Some people cant read, it dosnt say they are going to recreate the big bang, it says they are going to recreate the conditions directly FOLLOWING the big bang...try reading before reacting.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you haven't noticed, 95% of digg comments are wise-cracks, 3% are grammar police, 1.5% are dupe-mongers, and .5% are you.
- SeanMoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3More bogus reporting from physorg.com.... (Shocking)
- Llan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This article is completely useless. It has no links to papers or an experiment homepage. I have no idea what they are talking about. Particle accelerators have done nothing else, but getting higher and higher energies and thus coming closer to the Big Bang. In fact, a thousandth of a second after the Big Bang is a really really really long afterwards. Tons of things have already happened. All but one billionsth part of all protons and neutrons have already been destroyed, and electrons develop. I really have no idea what is not already known about this stage that could be recreated. Neither does the horrible article!
- InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What's the idea? Do they use a particle accelerator or something?
Pretty thin article. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7reCREATE the big bang? :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So what do you call it when a scientist is playing God?
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Man the digg comments system is the best demonstration if ever one was needed that if you give a million monkey's typewriters and an infinite amount of time, the vast majority of them will type utter garbage.
- csrster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gawd, but physorg is lame. I mean this story consists of a sensationalist and inaccurate headline (creating conditions like those after the BB is _not_ the same as reenacting the BB!) followed by precisely zero information about who is doing what,
where, and why, nevermind how it relates to any other science that has been or will
be done anywhere else in the world. - zwerdlds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'm not sure why people are so against this on DIGG. Physicists at Fermilab, Berkeley and SLAC, for example, have been performing experiments like this for decades.
- Mortiferous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds alot like Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons. Except of course this is dealing with dark matter rather than antimatter....I'm no physicist though, maybe they are one in the same. I wonder what possible risk there could be to creating such a clash.
- omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not like it's the end of the world or anything.
- ThndrShk2k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6I'd have to agree with Stewart on this one. Because unless the universe existed with matter before the big bang, all we will be doing is making a smaller mock universe THAT OURS IMPLODE UNTO!
And remember kids, imploding unto things is bad. and mighty painful - nightchrome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, I see this going well...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ugh. Read the article. No one is going to be destroying the world - they're gonna be doing this at CERN, a particle accelerator that crosses several country borders. Nothing needs to be contained as such, and there's not gonna be any end of the world.
As for what it will tell us?
"The idea is to generate a clash between particles similar to what happened a thousandth of a second after the Big Bang and see what it could tell us about the standard model of matter"
A thousandth of a second AFTER the big bang. Why, you ask? Because we still don't know WHAT happened before that :) All physics is is guessing something and then stating it as fact ;) - GuitaristTom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hahahahahahaha thats hilarious ssanders
i just kinda wanna kick their asses though... - GuitaristTom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i hate to be the loser who says this but...
and 31.415% of statistics are made up on the spot - GuitaristTom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, you should go into this, and be the famous guy who gets enough petitions to get each state to vote that scientology should not be deemed a religion and recieve the benefits that follow...and if you fail, ill make tomology and make some churches..
you cant win an argument with them...they just stop you from talking and say...why are you here - Justice101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Please go read up on M-Theory! Big bangs supposedly according to this theory occur all of the time and there are many parrell universes. They are created by "big bangs" which are supposedly branes in the 11th dimension colliding. Even if they where to recreate a "big bang" it would displace its own something and something and everything would be fine, because I can't remember the rest. They are not in this experiment try to recreate the "big bang" though.
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Ya, but the physicists at CERN make antimatter that could blow up the Vatican!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1idiots. i hope they blow themselves up. who gives a ***** what happened seconds after the big bang. focus on now. where are my ***** hoverboards? WHERE ARE MY HOVERBOARDS?!!!
get to work ... boffins. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was on Brian Greene's 'The Elegant Universe'.
- LeroyBrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RTFA guys, they're not trying to re-create the big bang itself, but rather the state of a few particles 1ms after the big bang.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1'They' were trying to recreate 'their' Big Bang and created our universe. It's an endless recursion of Big Bangs and Universes.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"reCREATE the big bang? :)"
Amazing, even when they hear it is human beings who are doing it, they still rattle on about their god.... - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, there goes the neighbourhood. Accidental anhilation of mankind in 3... 2... 1...
- Llan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is about LHC? Lol...
We can't know what happened BEFORE because THERE IS NO BEFORE. Time started with the Big Bang. - postapoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's real thin. They could just be talking about a computer simulation
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah her is a hint people. This is some kind of lame press release. But the reality is that we have been doing this sort of stuff since the early 1940's....
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I dunno, I'm perfectly content with not knowing how the universe came to be, but I have to call ***** on the Big Bang theory."
You are right that you 'dunno'. Scientists don't say at all that the Big Bang emerged out of 'nothing.' There are many competing theories with a lot of supporting evidence for one or two of the more popular ones - but physicists and cosmologists have never said that the Universe emerged from 'nothing' (at least not in the way that you probably understand nothing to be).
The only people who ever say this are religious extremists who use it a a lie to try to bamboozle you into thinking that scientists are somehow telling an unlikely story.
However if you are 'curious' there are some excellent books out there that will help you clear up some of the questions you may have. I very much recommend that you make an attempt to read them - because until you do all you are doing is dismissing what you don't know - which in my view is nothing less than the exact dictionary definition of ignorance.
In other words just because you say you don't know something, you make the huge leap to assuming that this means it cannot be.
I on the other hand have always wondered what inspired people to have the utter abject arrogance arrogance to make that kind of assertion? Just because you do not know what it is that scientists do say, this does not somehow mean that all of science is wrong.
If scientists worked that way much of the modern world we see around us today probably wouldn't exist either. - fintler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1bleh....angels and demons was an annoying book
- mattesticels, on 09/10/2008, -0/+0The Big Bang Happening On The 9/9/2008. 5:30 Australian Time!!
This Experemant Could Stuff up all technology and send us back to the stone ages apparently... Or It Could End The world But their is a 5,000,000-1 chance of that happening. I Want to live i am only 13 years old!!! i hope nothing bad happens For all people out their Reading This Good LucK! - mrops, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1and once they recreate the big bang, xenu will capture all the thetans and nuke them.
- SaltyD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Do we assume the 'Laws that applied at the start of the universe' still apply now?
- DruSam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As long as we don't open a portal for aliens to enter our planet. Then Gordon Freeman will have to save us.
- czarship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As history in astronomy shows, humans have always been duped by scale, constantly discovering vastly colossal works of art in the seemingly never evening cosmos. I am to this day thunderstruck and inspired by the fact that the universe that we know and reside in just may be a pea in something much, much larger (e.g. the infamous zoom out in the end of the movie Men In Black). I wholeheartedly support this experiment as it just may help decipher a few of the many mysteries grounded on our existence. If we can recreate what may have happened mere moments after the Big Bang, we just may discover how the Bang came to be in the first place. I, for one, will be eagerly waiting these results.
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