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I acknowledge the limitations of my scientific expertise (i.e. bugger all), but I can't help wondering whether recreating the beginning of the universe underneath Switzerland is such a fanstastic idea.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/8117453/Start-of-the-Universe-mini-Big-Bang-recreated.html

What say you fellow Dakkaites? I'm of the opinion that we should load the Hadron Collider and its scientists into a spaceship and tell them to carry out their wacky experiments on Mars (not the Moon, it's too close and is needed for life as we know it to exist).


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Oh bother, Alby has already started a thread on the same topic.

Sorry Mods, please lock

Don't worry. Whilst the heat generated is that of a magnitude close to a million times hotter than the centre of our sun the actual time that this was generated was a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

People are always fearful; GM foods, E numbers, Big bang etc are all examples where our own theories of what happens is far more sinsister than what really goes on.

There are far more dangerous things to worry about.

Isn't this incredibly old-hat? Or am I mistaken?

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Oh, I see. It actually worked this time.

I thought I woke up a bit lively this morning.

Thing is, the reaction they’re creating is something going on all the time all over the place. The difference here is that we know where this one is happening so we can look at it.

sebster wrote:Thing is, the reaction they’re creating is something going on all the time all over the place. The difference here is that we know where this one is happening so we can look at it.

sebster, I am so disappointed THIS is your 5000th post here on Dakka.

I think you owe this forum a LENGTHY and AWESOME forum post equal to the magnitude of your 5000th post.

And I have nothing wrong with scientific progress, especially since creating the big bang in miniature scale will do what with our scientific achievement?

WarOne wrote:sebster, I am so disappointed THIS is your 5000th post here on Dakka.

I think you owe this forum a LENGTHY and AWESOME forum post equal to the magnitude of your 5000th post.

Whoops, didn't even notice. Wow that's a lot of posts.

Post 5000 really should have been me questioning Fraz's latest bit of zaniness, shouldn't it?

And I have nothing wrong with scientific progress, especially since creating the big bang in miniature scale will do what with our scientific achievement?

I don't think they really have all that many direct applications. But most of our greatest breakthroughs started with curiousity driven research...

That explains all these strangelets I keep finding laying around all over the place.

Honestly, you'd think they'd keep better track of these things.

Monster Rain wrote:That explains all these strangelets I keep finding laying around all over the place.

Honestly, you'd think they'd keep better track of these things.

Well, I guess the Polly-O String Cheese Theory gets thrown out the door now.

Elmodiddly wrote:Don't worry. Whilst the heat generated is that of a magnitude close to a million times hotter than the centre of our sun the actual time that this was generated was a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

People are always fearful; GM foods, E numbers, Big bang etc are all examples where our own theories of what happens is far more sinsister than what really goes on.

There are far more dangerous things to worry about.

How long does it take to cool down?

and

What do they hold this with, won't it melt?

They grab it with these.

Very gingerly.

Somehow I am not convinced.

WarOne wrote:

sebster wrote:Thing is, the reaction they’re creating is something going on all the time all over the place. The difference here is that we know where this one is happening so we can look at it.

sebster, I am so disappointed THIS is your 5000th post here on Dakka.

I think you owe this forum a LENGTHY and AWESOME forum post equal to the magnitude of your 5000th post.

And I have nothing wrong with scientific progress, especially since creating the big bang in miniature scale will do what with our scientific achievement?

Lets see, new elements, new combinations of these to create new materials. The list is literally immense. It can break open further theories or confirm current ones relating to quantum mechanics, particle physics. Basically I would guess that any industry that is heavily influenced by scientific discovery.

I would have to say that creating mini big bangs is the way to go. Progress and all that. At least up until the point they inadverantly cause the world to explode, melt or some other apocalyptic event. At that moment I would switch my stance and say it was a bad idea to cause a world wide disaster.

Well I heard that if we had a "sun" the size of a soccer ball on the Earth, in Africa, that the continent would melt, the oceans would boil off and the temperature would be so severe that everyone dies on Earth.


So as long as they dont do that before figuring out how to contain it, Im down with them pushing science

As long as they don't have a power cut.
thats fine by me

dont blow up the world till I'm done painting all my minis - then carry on but don't make a big fuss about it

This one time I heard this thing from this place about something I didn't really have the background to understand. You wouldn't think that would have been a basis for a strong opinion, but hey sometimes life just surprises us.

strong opinion? nah its to much fuss. I sometimes don't like things but some more than others maybe.
I like your avatar, dont have a strong opinion or anything but it has friendly eyes and big ears

I figure if anything goes wrong it'll either be too quick or too slow for us to notice.

KingCracker wrote:Well I heard that if we had a "sun" the size of a soccer ball on the Earth, in Africa, that the continent would melt, the oceans would boil off and the temperature would be so severe that everyone dies on Earth.

Nah, it just takes out a city.