[wild-witch]

'Big Bang' machine begins operation - AOL News

At half past 8 (GMT) this morning, Scientists in Switzerland held an experiment to try a re-create the Big Bang.
No-one knows the outcome as yet, but what people are worried about is the chain-reaction that the experiment could have caused.
What are your views on this experiment?
Do you think that the Scientists were right to try and play God?

[shaynedude]

Why not play god?
People play pretend all the time.

[la_senorita_azul]

I don't believe in god, so I'm not worried about that, but the chain reaction scares me. First of all, they had no real reason to do this, other than to fuel their own curiosity, perhaps at the expense of every living thing on earth. Which is something I completely disagree with.

[weebz]

If it could have possibly ended the world; why would you want to even risk it?

[la_senorita_azul]

weebz wrote: If it could have possibly ended the world; why would you want to even risk it?

I know. And its not like they thought this would cure cancer or anything. I'm seriously pissed that they risked this without any reason to risk it for.

[weebz]

la_senorita_azul wrote: weebz wrote: If it could have possibly ended the world; why would you want to even risk it? I know. And its not like they thought this would cure cancer or anything. I'm seriously pissed that they risked this without any reason to risk it for.

Some people even said that this could cause black holes! WTF was on those scientists minds...?

[pippyredhead]

End of the world? Black holes? And for NO REASON AT ALL? Okay, you know!?!? **** reality.

[ryttu3k]

...Okay. Let's see.

1) There is no chance that the Large Hadron Collider could destroy the Earth. Let me emphisise that - THERE IS NO CHANCE THAT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER COULD DESTROY THE EARTH. Any strange matter they produce (the 'chain reaction' they're talking about) would most likely be so unstable it'd wink out of existance immediately. Ditto for micro black holes. In fact, they expect to produce some black holes - they'll be smaller than an electron and evaporate to nothing in a microsecond. And, at any rate, both of those would happen so fast we wouldn't even be aware of it. Believe me, there's worse ways to go.

2) Earth is already in a giant particle collider. The sun collides protons EVERY SINGLE SECOND. So far, we've gone four and a half billion years of the same experiment without dying. Funny, that!

3) If there was even the slightest chance that it'd destroy the Earth, it wouldn't go ahead. Period.

4) Okay, it's not quite true saying it's impossible, because nothing is impossible. But let's put it this way - it's more likely that each and every member of this forum wins the lottery (the main prize) in their lifetime than LHC destroying the Earth. EVERY SINGLE MEMBER.

5) At any rate, it wouldn't have been today since they were just sending the Proton stream around one way. The collisions won't start until October.

Seriously, guys, the LHC is not going to destroy the Earth. And one more time, for emphisis - the LHC is not going to destroy the Earth.

And why should they do it? My god, why WOULDN'T you do it? We finally, finally have a chance to understand how mass works on a subatomic level! Why gravity is so weak compared to the other three fundamental forces! (Electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.) Where all the antimatter that was produced in the Big Bang went! We can learn about Dark Matter, which holds the universe together and could tell us the ultimate fate of the universe! (If its mass is over a certain amount, then the universe osscilates. If not, we expand forever and never stop.) The LHC will recreate conditions less than a BILLIONTH of a second after the Big Bang. We're going to see how the universe was made.

It's involved over eighty-five countries and eight thousand scientists - the biggest co-operative the world has ever known. We're going to see how the universe was made and how the universe may end. This is the most important scientific experiment EVER.

[pippyredhead]

ryttu3k wrote: ...Okay. Let's see. 1) There is no chance that the Large Hadron Collider could destroy the Earth. Let me emphisise that - THERE IS NO CHANCE THAT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER COULD DESTROY THE EARTH. Any strange matter they produce (the 'chain reaction' they're talking about) would most likely be so unstable it'd wink out of existance immediately. Ditto for micro black holes. In fact, they expect to produce some black holes - they'll be smaller than an electron and evaporate to nothing in a microsecond. And, at any rate, both of those would happen so fast we wouldn't even be aware of it. Believe me, there's worse ways to go. 2) Earth is already in a giant particle collider. The sun collides protons EVERY SINGLE SECOND. So far, we've gone four and a half billion years of the same experiment without dying. Funny, that! 3) If there was even the slightest chance that it'd destroy the Earth, it wouldn't go ahead. Period. 4) Okay, it's not quite true saying it's impossible, because nothing is impossible. But let's put it this way - it's more likely that each and every member of this forum wins the lottery (the main prize) in their lifetime than LHC destroying the Earth. EVERY SINGLE MEMBER. 5) At any rate, it wouldn't have been today since they were just sending the Proton stream around one way. The collisions won't start until October. Seriously, guys, the LHC is not going to destroy the Earth. And one more time, for emphisis - the LHC is not going to destroy the Earth. And why should they do it? My god, why WOULDN'T you do it? We finally, finally have a chance to understand how mass works on a subatomic level! Why gravity is so weak compared to the other three fundamental forces! (Electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.) Where all the antimatter that was produced in the Big Bang went! We can learn about Dark Matter, which holds the universe together and could tell us the ultimate fate of the universe! (If its mass is over a certain amount, then the universe osscilates. If not, we expand forever and never stop.) The LHC will recreate conditions less than a BILLIONTH of a second after the Big Bang. We're going to see how the universe was made. It's involved over eighty-five countries and eight thousand scientists - the biggest co-operative the world has ever known. We're going to see how the universe was made and how the universe may end. This is the most important scientific experiment EVER.

Okay you have a point but I really needed to point this out.

Some guy years back was probobly sitting around a table with a bunch of other scientists and said "I KNOW WHAT SPACE IS MADE OF! DARK MATTER!"
"Where is it? We should study it!"
"No, you can't! It's invisible!"
"What?"
"See! Look through this telescope! That's all dark matter!"
"But there's nothing there!"
"Yeah! I know! That's Dark matter!"


Proove dark matter even exsists. If it's invisible how do we know it's there (cause everyone knows Dark Matter is invisible, duh/ this has barely anything to do with topic but seriously. You brought this a pon yourself).

[wild-witch]

Unfortunately, Pippy, Dark Matter does exsist.
Another name for it is Quintessance.
It holds the Universe together and prevents it from folding back in on itself.
Without it, we'd probably die.
After watching an interview with Dr. Wolff, I kind of understand it more and am now just that little bit less sacred.
But, what I want to know is how the Hell are they going to contain all that energy from the collision?