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 MrD00d rated 24 months ago - Baby Bang experiment could open door to new dimension
Monday September 11, 2006
Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimension...
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- andrew222 rated 22 months ago
- Scientists will create a mini 'big-bang' to simulate how the universe was created. Here is what was mentioned about the potential hazards...
"They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low.
* The risk is calculated at about 10 to the minus 40 - a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance."
Take it easy guys, don't get too out of hand here!!
- MrD00d rated 24 months ago
- Baby Bang experiment could open door to new dimension
Monday September 11, 2006
Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions.
The Large Hadron Collider - a 27km-long circular particle accelerator at the CERN experimental facility near Geneva, will smash protons into one another at unimaginable speeds trying to replicate in miniature the events of the Big Bang.
"These beams will have the kinetic energy of an aircraft carrier slammed into the size of a zero on a 20p piece," Brian Cox of Manchester University told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
"We are going to make mini Big Bangs.
"There has never been such a jump in particle physics. It will go into an area that we don't really understand," he added.
The fundamental goal of the massive machine is to answer the basic but crucial question of how matter was created at the birth of the universe.
"We don't know what 95 per cent of the universe is made of - which is a bit embarrassing for a subject that claims to be fundamental," Dr Cox said.
"There is dark matter. It is all over the place but we have no idea what it is."
"There is also something called dark energy, and that is an even bigger question.
"It makes up about 70 per cent of the energy in the universe, but again we have absolutely no idea what it is.
"It is an incredibly exciting machine. It will be turned on next year and run for at least a decade and probably 20 years and the first results - if the machine behaves itself - should start coming out within a year," he added.
If the theories are correct, the machine will create tiny black holes that evaporate and possibly even find particles that offer evidence that the three dimensions known to mankind are just a fraction of those that exist.
"That would be an even bigger headline than the black holes. It could be that there is a whole new universe a millimetre away from our heads but at right-angles to the three dimensions that are here," Dr Cox said.
"That would be a real paradigm shift - our relegation to a little sheet in a multi-dimensional universe.
"That kind of thing is really profound and will capture the imagination that perhaps the origin of mass won't, although it should.
"For the first time in many decades we have built a machine that exceeds our powers of prediction.
"New processes are bound to be discovered. We are truly journeying into unknown territory."
Dr Cox dismissed worries that by adventuring into the unknown and creating tiny black holes, the machine could even destroy the planet.
"The probability is at the level of 10 to the minus 40," he said.
MINI BANGS
* Scientists aim to reproduce miniature versions of the so-called Big Bang, which is thought to have started the universe.
* To do this they will smash protons together at huge speeds along a 27km tube known as a particle accelerator.
* They hope to create tiny black holes or find extra dimensions in the universe.
* They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low.
* The risk is calculated at about 10 to the minus 40 - a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance.
- REUTERS
- compuveg rated 25 months ago
- From the page: "They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low. The risk is calculated at about 10 to the minus 40 - a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance."
Let's hope they wouldnnt have been better off buying a lottery ticket.
- Huxley rated 25 months ago
- Any article that reads, * They hope to create tiny black holes or find extra dimensions in the universe.* They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low. ... is worth reading... See you in Hell!
- KillgoreTrout rated 25 months ago
- From the page: "Dr Cox dismissed worries that by adventuring into the unknown and creating tiny black holes, the machine could even destroy the planet."
- oneglasseye rated 25 months ago
- LET'S JUST TAG THIS ONE AS "DAMN,ARE YOU NUCKING FUTS"
- nicky187 rated 25 months ago
- Looks like a Stargate to me. Let's send a team through. I'll go. Anyone else interested?
- ActionJeans rated 25 months ago
- Deep underground on the Franco-Swiss border, someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions
If the theories are correct, the machine will create tiny black holes that evaporate and possibly even find particles that offer evidence that the three dimensions known to mankind are just a fraction of those that exist.
Brian Cox of Manchester University: "For the first time in many decades we have built a machine that exceeds our powers of prediction."
Dr Cox dismissed worries that by adventuring into the unknown and creating tiny black holes, the machine could even destroy the planet.
"The probability is at the level of 10 to the minus 40," he said.
Now, I'm no quantum physicist, but does anybody else notice a problem with his figures? If it exceeds prediction, doesn't that mean he just pulled those odds directly out of his ass?
- Nanadae rated 25 months ago
- Will one of the scientists meet Lack?
- ChaosKitty rated 25 months ago
- "* Scientists aim to reproduce miniature versions of the so-called Big Bang, which is thought to have started the universe.
* To do this they will smash protons together at huge speeds along a 27km tube known as a particle accelerator.
* They hope to create tiny black holes or find extra dimensions in the universe.
* They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low.
* The risk is calculated at about 10 to the minus 40 - a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance."
Well, there's the reason we were all watching a plastic bag in space yesterday--to distract us from the real news of the day. CERN just released this little gem of information: They've built a Stargate. And it might accidentally destroy the entire planet when they turn it on next year.
Yeah, I'm just gonna file this under "Things We Should Not Ever Do No Matter How Cool It Sounds" and cross-file it under "I Told You So!" to be opened after we are all tiny specks of cosmic dust floating into the giant black hole the CERN guys just created.
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