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- sockpuppets, on 08/26/2008, -4/+63So long, and thanks for all the fish!
- kokoshka, on 08/25/2008, -3/+45Anyone else hoping the universe implodes?
- jaymzdean, on 08/25/2008, -3/+38"Hey, what's this BIG RED BUTTON over here do?"
- aleksandar, on 08/26/2008, -1/+30There is nothing to worry about. It's just a tiny black hole.
- theatheist, on 08/26/2008, -1/+28I can't wait until the day the Higgs particle is discovered, it would be a giant leap towards the fundamental understanding of our universe.
- furiouslettuce, on 08/26/2008, -0/+22The Higgs boson was posited a number of years ago as a solution to why particles possess mass. It is expected to be seen because the standard model (the model which is used by particle physics) predicts it - hence we can expect to see it at the new energies that the LHC can reach.
Colliding particles can be dangerous, but it depends on the environment and what you're doing with them. At the energies at which the LHC operates, it may be possible to create micro black holes, but they are expected to evaporate by Hawking radiation within a tiny fraction of a second - before they have a chance to influence the surrounding material. However, micro black holes will not be encountered in the next couple of years, if at all, since the LHC will ramp up the energy at which it operates slowly over the next few years, and current models predict that micro black holes will not be created until energies an order of magnitude larger (10 x) than the energy the LHC will operate at are reached.
There's lots of media panic and sensationalism surrounding the LHC, but mostly it's just people looking to get page hits and / or not understanding what's actually going on. - alpharaptor, on 08/26/2008, -2/+21There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -Douglas Adams
- dawnraid101, on 08/26/2008, -3/+22Divide by zero....
O SHI - SqlByte, on 08/26/2008, -1/+20If that ***** actually happen the worst thing is that no one here at Digg will be fast enough to make a sarcastic comment.
- evilregis, on 08/26/2008, -0/+17...relative to our perception of time. Who knows, maybe we're a CERN experiment of some other civilization. Or not.
- PrometheusBorn, on 08/26/2008, -0/+17And they said that we couldn't possible know what happened before the Big Bang... isn't it obvious? Some Earthlike world billions of years ago was wondering if there was a something called a "Higgs Boson" particle and viola!
- theOster, on 08/26/2008, -0/+16no, i just paid off my credit cards
- hairyfro, on 08/26/2008, -3/+16This article demonstrates beautifully why journalists who do not understand science should not write about it.
- theatheist, on 08/26/2008, -0/+11the universe created at CERN will last only for a fraction of a second
- Stemp, on 08/26/2008, -1/+12That's not a bad idea, a little big bang will create a tiny new universe, so in 14 billions years will we know if the theory was right.
- the6thReplicant, on 08/26/2008, -1/+11You guys have been watching too many movies. You've been brainwashed to reject the experts but listen to the "lone outsider"-myth.
And when I mean experts. I mean particle physicists and theoretical physicists, not tobacco lobbyists. - John213, on 08/26/2008, -5/+15because you have no understanding of the science involved?
- Aleks, on 08/26/2008, -0/+9Correct me if I'm wrong, aren't they trying to recreate something that is continually expanding?
We might need to cross the streams..... - jenel, on 08/26/2008, -0/+9But reddit will have 48 hours to make it.
Oh snap! - Slackdragon, on 08/26/2008, -0/+9It's wafer thin.
- qster, on 08/26/2008, -1/+10Could they hang on just until Starcraft, Diablo, Rage & Spore have been released, plsss!!
PS
Don't worry about Duke Nuken, I don't expect to live that long anyway. - s0ldad0, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8**27 billion years into the future...in alien science 101 a teacher states...**
Some scientists believe he universe was created by an ancient advanced civilisation.
They were a noble and peaceful species called Humans who had the technology to create a universe.
We call this the big bang as they took all matter from everywhere into a black hole and let it explode into what we now call the universe.
After creating the universe it is believed their world and everyone on it ascended into the ether through the very portal they used to create the universe...
Our own scientists are looking to see if theory is true and have created a massive particle colider experiment that will be used next month to detect a strange new and exotic particle...
/you get my point ;) - JayceMJ, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8That just made my brain explode.
- Guppy, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8Assuming of course that it exists in the first place.
- theatheist, on 08/26/2008, -1/+9only in a Dan Brown novel.
- lopla, on 08/26/2008, -1/+8who cares, just hold me.
- 4rp4n3t, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!
- BIGMEX, on 08/26/2008, -1/+7 .....but then i don't have to live in a world that broadcast "America Got Talent".
Ok flip the damn thing. - BeefBaron, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6Travelling through time using bent lasers, one forum post at a time.
- paidhima, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6The first thing that must be recognized is that the Big Bang was not an explosion at all. It all began with a singularity: infinitesimally small, infinitely dense and infinitely hot. Something - we don't know yet what that something was, caused this singularity to begin expanding. This expansion (an inflationary event) is what is known as the Big Bang.
As for the "void" in which this expansion occurred, we don't know what it was. Some theorize that the singularity encapsulated all that forms our universe: space, matter and even time. In other words, there was no "before" the singularity, because time came from within the singularity itself. So, essentially, it can be said that at the moment the Big Bang occurred and Time began, that Time had always been and the singularity had always been.
In regards to billions of years of accidental mutations, I think you're oversimplifying things. Firstly, you throw around "billions of years" as if it's just like saying "last Tuesday." Consider this: the first ***** sapiens are traced back about 200k-250k years ago, with the first of the human species (genus *****) appearing about 2.5 million years ago. The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, almost 2000x longer than even the oldest recognizable humans have been around. That is an incredibly long time. Secondly, you have to remember that these "accidental mutations" were not linear. There were potentially millions upon millions of mutations, and only a small number of those were actually successful. It wasn't so much accidental as the law of probabilities - while the chance of creating one successful mutation may be very small, when you're throwing millions of them into the mix, the chance increases. - alpharaptor, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6it's the history eraser button
- KMartSheriff, on 08/26/2008, -5/+11You just had to be the ***** didn't you? Bringing in the anti-religious crap when no one else was even thinking it. But hey, this is Digg, so go figure. It was bound to happen.
- Jektal, on 08/26/2008, -1/+7Woah.
- Ryanleafasaurus, on 08/26/2008, -1/+6Well
This is how the world ends.
Good job humans. - semrocks, on 08/26/2008, -2/+7And I hope they simply ask you, "Where did the particles come from?"
BOOYA! - spartan777, on 08/26/2008, -13/+18send this to all your fundamentalist christian friends. you won't hear from them again, until they show up on the news getting pulled out of a concrete bunker in the middle of nebraska.
- staticneuron, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5Thank You! That was very well explained. I was suspicious about us having enough power to form a micro black hole in the first place. Something about some of those scare articles made it seem to easy.
- FrankButcher, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5The original CERN found something that looked a lot like the Higgs Boson, but not 99% sure without using greater energies. They were about 90% certain only, but thats not enough to "discover" a particle. Thats why they are pretty certain they'll find it with the LHC
- thcobbs, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5Sometimes I wonder if this is how our universe got started....
- the6thReplicant, on 08/26/2008, -1/+6Go to wikipedia and look at Particle Physics. This should be a start to a wonderful understanding of the universe. If it's too high a level maybe trying to get hold of the Cosmos series by Carl Sagan.
- the6thReplicant, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5based on....?
- coboman, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4This article is full with inaccuracies and misunderstandings.
Among many: "... both particle clusters will be traveling at the speed of light"....No, nothing can travel at the speed of light (but light itself). The particles will be moving at huge velocities APPROACHING the speed of light. Big difference.
And no. They will not create a Big Bang event. The particles after the collision will have structures similar to those first particles at the beginning of the universe. That's it. No Big Bang, no black hole, no dooms day device. - MajorMansteak, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4This better be a really really small big bang....
- KaiUno, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4We're not 100% sure how the cycle got started, but we're even less sure how it ends and the how whole shebang gets rebooted after it's through.
Now we do. - flawlessjess, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4but we can make the sarcastic comments before the worst case happens /sarcasm
- RandomGorilla, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4You mean that big, shiny, CANDY-LIKE BUTTON?!?
- Chirp08, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4Rosie O'Donnel tripped
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5...Cant wait to see the results!
- honeybrass, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5We finally did it,
YOU MANIACS! You blew it up! Ah, Damn you! God damn you all to hell! - semrocks, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5Umm, and why is that exactly? Let's assume, for now, that this experiment does what they hope and they can show that colliding particles started the whole process for what we know as life today. Where did those particles come from? Did they just appear from nothing one day?
Either one of two things is true: "Stuff" has always existed and had no beginning, or "stuff" somehow appeared out of nothingness. Good luck with that one... -
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