Jenny in Atl Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Jenny. I'm sorry. I don't get it. Does this have anything to do with tea? ETA: I looked up higgs boson and now I super don't get it: : a hypothetical elementary particle that has zero spin and large mass and that is required by some gauge theories to account for the masses of other elementary particles.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Jenny. I'm sorry. I don't get it. Does this have anything to do with tea? Details... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23552722-details/Countdown+to+man's+Big+Bang+begins/article.do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamturner Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Are you talking about the possible "black hole in the center of the earth" creating experiment today? Did you see their funny video? It's in this article. It's pretty funny! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1053091/Meet-Evans-Atom-end-world-Wednesday.html Hey, the end of the world won't happen until a few years from now, so relax!! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Oh, wow. I was just a religion major. This science stuff is way beyond me, usually, but this is kinda apocalyptic. Apocalypse, I get it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Is this about that big machine in Europe that is smashing particles or something? That sounded freaky and I had no idea it was starting up so soon. :001_huh::willy_nilly: I'm really not worried. :leaving: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakitty Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 The way I look at it.....if we are gone...we are gone. The End. LOL...no need to worry about it....what will be...will be. But, from a scientific view....as *I* understand it.... nothing terrible will happen... and, for me, tomorrow will be just another day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Yes. I think we'll be here. Too much hysterical hype. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Lynx Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Well, if it is going to destroy us all, at least they have the decency to do it at an hour when we'll all be asleep ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Hey, the end of the world won't happen until a few years from now, so relax!! ;) I assume you are thinking the Mayans got it right. I almost posted about that today. I think it would be much better to be vaporized in an instant with a big bang than to undergo some of the other possible scenarios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam "SFSOM" in TN Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Dunno. But if we're not, let me just say, "It's been fun." Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakitty Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Does this have anything to do with tea? I say...just in case....we should all probably have lots and lots of tea tonight! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in Orlando Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 The way I look at it.....if we are gone...we are gone. The End. LOL...no need to worry about it....what will be...will be. But, from a scientific view....as *I* understand it.... nothing terrible will happen... and, for me, tomorrow will be just another day... :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 What I wonder is...how do the odds of this going badly compare to the odds they give to the "real" Big Bang happening the way it did and why in the heck are they willing to chance it?? lol I dunno. I just keep thinking of how many people could be fed and other cool stuff with the 8 billion freaking dollars that machine cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakitty Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 What I wonder is...how do the odds of this going badly compare to the odds they give to the "real" Big Bang happening the way it did and why in the heck are they willing to chance it?? lol I dunno. I just keep thinking of how many people could be fed and other cool stuff with the 8 billion freaking dollars that machine cost. $8.9 billion US....LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I assume you are thinking the Mayans got it right. If they did get it right the world will end just before eldest's 16th birthday. YES! I don't have to teach anyone to drive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 If they did get it right the world will end just before eldest's 16th birthday. YES! I don't have to teach anyone to drive! :001_huh: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anissarobert Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I read something in the paper the other day that said there won't actually be any particles colliding for a month or so. I guess we have that long anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivetails Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I don't understand *any* of it, but why are they doing something that could have (according to some) catastrophic results?:001_huh: Sure, give me something new to worry about. Like Y2K wasn't enough fun. :tongue_smilie: (yes I get weird about these sorts of things) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laylamcb Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Oh yeah, we'll be here. Someone's got to go to work and pay for this thing. :glare: :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey in TX Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I've been watching the progression over the last year. It's fascinating to think they're actually trying to recreate the Big Bang. I was excited before I went to sleep last night. Kids and I have talked about it. DD (10) saw headlines "Earth's demise" and read article to sibs while I was out of room. DS told his friend we only have a 20% chance of living tomorrow. WHAT?! Had to call the mom and tell her what my little guy said to her little guy. Oy vey. Good to know we're still here this morning. Looks like yet another day of eating humble pie.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 What about everyone that has already started buying Christmas gifts? Should they give them out in the next month? This reminds me of a something from a James Bond movie. If the world does end in the next month, we will all miss the premiere of the new James Bond movie. I was looking forward to that. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Lynx Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 What I wonder is...how do the odds of this going badly compare to the odds they give to the "real" Big Bang happening the way it did and why in the heck are they willing to chance it?? lol I dunno. I just keep thinking of how many people could be fed and other cool stuff with the 8 billion freaking dollars that machine cost. As far as cool stuff goes, I think this is right up there with the coolest. As far as the cost ... that's a good point. Should we put a hold on scientific advancement if it's costly, until poverty is ended? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soph the vet Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I read the CNN article on this experiment this morning. They refer to it as "exploratory science" which I wonder if that is an oxymoron (think Koch's postulates when defining science). Also, according to the article, they are trying to replicate a millionth of a second after the Big Bang. How can you replicate something that was not observed? I'm not worried about getting sucked into a black hole, but if we do then we won't have to suffer through anymore political ads!!:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Well, it is morning. I'm here. Has anyone seen a black hole yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne Rittenhouse Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Well, it is morning. I'm here. Has anyone seen a black hole yet? Nah, just the usual ones that swallow my son's math homework and the car keys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in the Kootenays Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 now if I can just get all this glitter off... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genie Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I knew I shouldn't have fallen for that line last night... (Since the hover punchline won't show up here... "Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er!") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Brian Greene (author of The Elegant Universe) was on with a local talk-radio host the other morning. They were discussing the LHC, string theory and whatnot. It was a fascinating conversation. Did you know he wrote a book for the younger set? Icarus at the Edge of Time. The starship Proxima is on a twenty-five-trillion mile journey. Icarus was born on the ship as was his father and his father’s father, but there will be two more generations before the Proxima reaches its destination. As the tale begins, the Proxima is making an emergency diversion to avoid a black hole. Icarus wants to get a closer look. Although his father explains that when something goes into a black hole it never comes out, Icarus is confident that he can journey to the black hole’s edge and still make it back. He sneaks one of the Runabout ships out of the docking station and sets off to explore the black hole on his own. The result is unexpected and startling. Icarus returns to find his world profoundly and forever transformed. In Icarus at the Edge of Time Brian Greene has given us a fable about fathers and sons, curiosity and wisdom, and the complexity of the universe as only a physicist of his range and lucidity could. Designed by Chip Kidd--with full-color images from the Hubble Space Telescope--it is destined to be a classic for all ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle T Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Yes. I think we'll be here. Too much hysterical hype. I think it's very cool, and can't wait to hear what discoveries it brings. It is not going to be up to full power for about a year, they are very slowly ramping it up to full speed. So it's not like the black holes will be devouring us any time soon. Michelle T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 CERN is a rather wondrous place where scientists are free to discover without the limiting pressure to follow comercial interests. Unlike, for example, pharmaceutical companies, where the incentive may be to find long-term treatments rather than cures. For example CERN played a major part in the development of the internet because of the unique way the project has been unquestionably funded by European countries and scientists have been given space to use their genius and imaginations. Here is a link about CERN's part in us all being able to share here at these fantastic WTM boards... CERN may also bring us new real treatments for cancer, but the real beauty of the project is the fact that we don't know what amazing discoveries and breakthroughs will come to us over the following years. This is good old-fashioned science! I have been reassured by a very good friend (a home-educating father too!), who is one of the engineers who built the accelerator, that we are all perfectly safe! The BBC is having a 'Big Bang' (melodramatic title) day today and has had some excellent programmes on the radio all day. You can enjoy them all here ; science fact and a bit of fun science fiction thrown in. I am one European who is more than happy to see money go towards progress and not war: for my children's future. Much love to you all from the prodigal poster who has finally got her internet back! Lorna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Eeeek! You're back! It's good to see you again. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey in TX Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Well, it is morning. I'm here. Has anyone seen a black hole yet? Yes, as verified by my checking account!:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 CERN is a rather wondrous place where scientists are free to discover without the limiting pressure to follow comercial interests. Unlike, for example, pharmaceutical companies, where the incentive may be to find long-term treatments rather than cures. For example CERN played a major part in the development of the internet because of the unique way the project has been unquestionably funded by European countries and scientists have been given space to use their genius and imaginations. Here is a link about CERN's part in us all being able to share here at these fantastic WTM boards... CERN may also bring us new real treatments for cancer, but the real beauty of the project is the fact that we don't know what amazing discoveries and breakthroughs will come to us over the following years. This is good old-fashioned science! I have been reassured by a very good friend (a home-educating father too!), who is one of the engineers who built the accelerator, that we are all perfectly safe! The BBC is having a 'Big Bang' (melodramatic title) day today and has had some excellent programmes on the radio all day. You can enjoy them all here ; science fact and a bit of fun science fiction thrown in. I am one European who is more than happy to see money go towards progress and not war: for my children's future. Much love to you all from the prodigal poster who has finally got her internet back! Lorna :party: Ya! You're back! :cheers2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahli Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Stephen Hawking said there's no way that the LHC could create a large black hole, that it's completely safe, and that cosmic collisions of this size happen all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 :party: Ya! You're back! :cheers2: Aw,:blushing: thank you Jenny and Sleepy. I have missed you all. We are in London now, by the River Thames. My blog is due to be sadly neglected for a while yet whilst we unpack the boxes of our stuff which is finally out of storage after eighteen months. I have discovered to my horror that I collect candles and barbecue skewers (a medical condition surely!). We also have enough craft materials to enable us to stay in for the next three years and make stuff! We have a new kitten! Finally I can enjoy Jean in Wisconsin's blog without that feeling of total longing. Yay Jenny on all the well-deserved rep. points! :cheers2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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