The Big Bang Recreation Project

[Cheezdude]

Luke's topic is gone. Time warped. And the project is on Wednesday.

Wikipedia article.

[shauni]

Ah, the so called ‘end of the world’. If I’m still here on Thursday, I’ll laugh out load at the media hype this has gotten.If I’m dead, I won’t really care. It’s only being turned on tomorrow; real tests don’t start for a while.

[Astral Omega]

Wow, Grand Unified Theories and Time travel? Studies into the very nature of the universe itself? The implications of this project are pretty frelling awesome!

I haven’t actually heard about this before now. Maybe because I don’t watch the news or anything like that… I don’t doubt I would have known about this if I was still at school. The physics teachers would have told the class…

“Many members of the public are fearful that the Earth will be destroyed by the experiments at the LHC and scientists associated with the project have received many protests. Much of this concern has arisen due to the book Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? in which the Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees estimates a 50% chance that mankind will destroy itself before the year 2100”

Ha ha I find this rather funny^^ The chance that mankind will destroy itself… I think Scientists give mankind far too much credit. I mean they’re trying to take credit for global warming… GLOBAL WARMING!? I laugh so hard at this claim because I’ve seen some information about the climatic past of the Earth. We are not causing global warming… but that’s not really what this is about! Sorry.

Also, the worry of the creation of ‘strangelets’…

“If strangelets can actually exist, and if they were produced at LHC, they could conceivably initiate a runaway fusion process in which all the nuclei in the planet were converted to strange matter, similar to a strange star.”

I think the world is already strange enough… now they names something ‘strange matter’? It can’t be any stranger than that guy who was putting live scorpions in his mouth on that Guinness Primetime show… but again, that’s not really on topic is it?^^

(My quotes come form this article, to which a link can be found on the article posted by Cheez.)

[Saber Knight]

Ah, yes, this again.
I laugh at it. I laugh at that humans think they can try and re-create a conditions from a miraculous event, even on a small scale. The Big Bang was incrdible (way beyond that, actually). There is no way humans can possibly even duplicate it on a small scale. That's what I say.

[Silver]

Even if these scientists don't prove their theory, they've already proven mine: scientists suck. A lot.

Who really cares if you can smash things together really fast? In the end, all you've done is wasted billions of dollars and countless people's time and energy to verify something you already knew and, while you were at it, risked the safety of the world.

Scientists, who obsess over the world around them and try to understand everything about it, are the worst things that have ever happened to it. How's that for irony?

[Simsmagic]

Yes, I believe that it's only being tested tomorrow. It's being used for real on October 21st.

[Shadowman]

Who really cares if you can smash things together really fast?

I for one do, because nuclear fusion is very nifty.

[Saber Knight]

Yes, nuclear fusion is nifty, but doesn't that only occur in the sun?
I thought it was just when hydrogen became helium (or is it the opposite...bleh, that class was too far back) in the sun (or any star, for that matter).
I might just be ignorant, but I really don't see the point of most of the man-made elements. They only last for a fraction of a second before they rapidly decay. It just seems pointless to me. Just felt the need to put that out.

[Astral Omega]

Even if these scientists don't prove their theory, they've already proven mine: scientists suck. A lot.

Science is awesome! Where would we be without scientists?

Scientists suck? Well how are you able to give this view to everyone reading this page? Scientists! How are you able to flush the toilet? Get medication when you’re sick? Drive to work or school? Scientists! All those video games and animes you love- you owe it to scientists!

Without scientists… there would be no One Piece.

Yes, nuclear fusion is nifty, but doesn't that only occur in the sun? I really don't see the point of most of the man-made elements. They only last for a fraction of a second before they rapidly decay. It just seems pointless to me. Just felt the need to put that out.

The point of trying to figure out how to create fusion is to understand it better and attempt to create 'cold fusion.' That’s the creation of particles, the same as what happens in stars, but at much lower temperatures- Temperatures we can handle creating on earth.

If they can do this, then they will be able to make cold fusion reactors which give off much more energy than any other types of power generators we have.

Imagine being able to harness the power of a sun (and I’m not talking solar energy- that’s still a tiny amount compared to Cold Fusion.)

There are also a million other things they’re trying to prove with this experiment. They don’t actually know whether or not its true- that’s what they’re trying to find out. They could be completely wrong about everything they’ve theorised pertaining to particles, waves and how these forces exist.

That’s the point of this project.

I’m just laughing about the whole “THE END IS NIGH AND IT’S OUR FAULT!” thing the media’s got going on.

[shauni]

These experiments may seen trivial on there own, but they could lead to new, clean sources of fuel, new inventions and maybe medial treatment. That, as well as understanding the world around us is also very interesting.

[Astral Omega]

Google's picture is cool^^ :

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[Doodleshark]

Whatevs. All I know is if the world ends today, it had better be after I watch the new Zero Punctuation that comes out today.

[Kisori]

Wow, Grand Unified Theories and Time travel? Studies into the very nature of the universe itself? The implications of this project are pretty frelling awesome!

I haven’t actually heard about this before now. Maybe because I don’t watch the news or anything like that… I don’t doubt I would have known about this if I was still at school. The physics teachers would have told the class…

“Many members of the public are fearful that the Earth will be destroyed by the experiments at the LHC and scientists associated with the project have received many protests. Much of this concern has arisen due to the book Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? in which the Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees estimates a 50% chance that mankind will destroy itself before the year 2100”

Ha ha I find this rather funny^^ The chance that mankind will destroy itself… I think Scientists give mankind far too much credit. I mean they’re trying to take credit for global warming… GLOBAL WARMING!? I laugh so hard at this claim because I’ve seen some information about the climatic past of the Earth. We are not causing global warming… but that’s not really what this is about! Sorry.

Also, the worry of the creation of ‘strangelets’…

“If strangelets can actually exist, and if they were produced at LHC, they could conceivably initiate a runaway fusion process in which all the nuclei in the planet were converted to strange matter, similar to a strange star.”

I think the world is already strange enough… now they names something ‘strange matter’? It can’t be any stranger than that guy who was putting live scorpions in his mouth on that Guinness Primetime show… but again, that’s not really on topic is it?^^

(My quotes come form this article, to which a link can be found on the article posted by Cheez.)

Actually, if my logic isn't mistaken, the human race will either kill each other in war for something on Earth, or find a new planet to habitize and use Earth as a dumping planet.

[Astral Omega]

Ooo, earth as a dumping planet... that makes perfect sense since we're already setting it up to be one! You know with the trashing of the atmosphere and all. (Which BTW is NOT causing global warming!)

[Josiah]

Science is awesome! Where would we be without scientists?

Scientists suck? Well how are you able to give this view to everyone reading this page? Scientists! How are you able to flush the toilet? Get medication when you’re sick? Drive to work or school? Scientists! All those video games and animes you love- you owe it to scientists!

Without scientists… there would be no One Piece.

Actually, most of that stuff was created by engineers and inventors, not scientists. And even if you wanted to count them as scientists of a sort, that's still much different than the type of scientists who do experiments like this Big Bang thing.