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Bobby500 wrote:

MasterOfMac wrote:

Everyone knows that scientists simply sit around cackling at their mad inventions while murdering puppies and such.

Now thats just mean to Vikaros. Please respect others views, even if you happen to take the steortype on everything. I personally think the Atom Smasher is a great idea and hope that it works. If not...bye bye France. But anyway, it should work. This isn't the first one they have built people. Its just the biggest.

Thanks Bobby500.  No worries though, the mad scientist joke was funny 

For those just getting here this discussion all started echoing concerns about CERN's Large Hadron Collider (here's its history http://lhc-milestones.web.cern.ch/LHC-Milestones/) which can accelerate particles smaller than atoms into one another to try to figure out how the universe works.  This is to say that physicist realize that they do not yet understand how physics works at a quantum level, and are working hard to change that.  They claimed the accelerator was safe(http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html) but some speculated that it would cause the destruction of the world by recreating black holes. 

What happened?

http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7604293.stm

The first tests, where particles were sent around the giant ring, were successful, but they will not have a chance to test actual collisions till next year:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080923-hadron-collider.html

Oh for heavens sake dont visit this topic till they have got the machine working again!

dsdude10 wrote:

isanemooey wrote:

wot on earth is happening apparently some scientists are risking the life of everything on earth just to test some machine that replicates wot happened in the big bang apparently miny black holes will b made and they say they disappear as fast as thet're created BUT (and this is a big but) there is a chance they could grow big enough to take the entire planet out of existence HOW COULD THEY DO THAT? i dont care if some new particles could b made wot i care about is the ones that could b distroyed i.e. THE ONES THAT MAKE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


reply if u care about human kind

There is NO SUCH THING as the big bang. If there was, who created the little dot that exploded, who gave it enough energy to to explode, and lots more 'who gave its'

"That tiny dot" was just there infiniteley.

maxsteele2 wrote:

Oh, and heres a webcam over there in Switzerland. http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Thats lieing or we would all be dead

maxsteele2 wrote:

Oh, and heres a webcam over there in Switzerland. http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Ha ha. very funny. NOT

isanemooey wrote:

wot on earth is happening apparently some scientists are risking the life of everything on earth just to test some machine that replicates wot happened in the big bang apparently miny black holes will b made and they say they disappear as fast as thet're created BUT (and this is a big but) there is a chance they could grow big enough to take the entire planet out of existence HOW COULD THEY DO THAT? i dont care if some new particles could b made wot i care about is the ones that could b distroyed i.e. THE ONES THAT MAKE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Yep, I heard about this in a Discover magazine. People were really worried, calling them 'mad scientists' blah blah blah... But I don't think they will suceed.

You have to understand all of astrophysics to make a meaningful answer on things like this. So no crackpot theories please 

maxsteele2 wrote:

Eyeryone can have thier opinions (I don't believe the continental drift theory).

Just out of interest, what your alternative explanation for the things explained by continental drift?

dsdude10 wrote:

isanemooey wrote:

wot on earth is happening apparently some scientists are risking the life of everything on earth just to test some machine that replicates wot happened in the big bang apparently miny black holes will b made and they say they disappear as fast as thet're created BUT (and this is a big but) there is a chance they could grow big enough to take the entire planet out of existence HOW COULD THEY DO THAT? i dont care if some new particles could b made wot i care about is the ones that could b distroyed i.e. THE ONES THAT MAKE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


reply if u care about human kind

There is NO SUCH THING as the big bang. If there was, who created the little dot that exploded, who gave it enough energy to to explode, and lots more 'who gave its'

GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOT CATHOLIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bluestribute wrote:

big-bang wrote:

Not cells, atoms. The black holes are atom sized. And you can make some very interesting particles in particle accelerators (that's what they're called) that could even tell us how life began on Earth! (No offense, anybody.)

I said CELLS and whatnot  . Cause I'm lazy and couldn't remember the smallest thing in life (see, very lazy and very tired- bad combination)

the smallest things in life are 1/infinity of a molecule they keep getting smaller (since a molecule is a part of an atom and infinity goes on forever)

Yorie wrote:

isanemooey wrote:

wot on earth is happening apparently some scientists are risking the life of everything on earth just to test some machine that replicates wot happened in the big bang apparently miny black holes will b made and they say they disappear as fast as thet're created BUT (and this is a big but) there is a chance they could grow big enough to take the entire planet out of existence HOW COULD THEY DO THAT? i dont care if some new particles could b made wot i care about is the ones that could b distroyed i.e. THE ONES THAT MAKE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


reply if u care about human kind

Yep, I heard about this in a Discover magazine. People were really worried, calling them 'mad scientists' blah blah blah... But I don't think they will suceed.

Succeed what?

The LHC particle accelerator only mimics what happens in cosmic wave background radiation, which hits the Earth all the time, so it's not very likely to create a black hole.

I do not like arguing about whether the big bang/god exists or not, because it's impossible to prove each other false. For example, someone could say, "Who created the big bang?" And I could say, "No one. It appeared due to quantum physics. Who created god?"
"God has always been around. How come the big bang happened when and how it did?"
"It had to happen somehow, and it formed at the beginning of time, so you can't ask when."
"But things can't just appear."
"In that case, Things can't be around forever."
"god can."
"How?"
"Because god can do anything."
"In that case, why did god make the world at the time he did?"
"Because he was tired of all that darkness and loneliness."
"After infinity years?"
etc.