End of the world is nigh
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This CERN do-hickey if their only firing it one way and therefore not colliding what stops the projectile matter from just going on and on and on?
I'm not a physicist as you can plainly tell.
Andy
I'm not a physicist as you can plainly tell.
Andy
Matthew.Passmore
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They're stopping it with one of the collimators. (A collimator is a device which "focusses" the beam).
Maybe we did, maybe we the universe and everything is sucked through a really tiny black hole and explode in to space as a newly formed universe. we'll know in between 50 hours and two years. if we are still about, then it wasn't us... Maybe the vogons
We don't even know if there was a universe "here" before the Big Bang. It's far more likely that there was no "here" here. At the moment, all our theories fail at the moment of the singularity.
There are some really esoteric theories (well, hypotheses really) about it, but I couldn't even begin to try and understand them in the most basic terms. Crazy, strange things like string theory (basically, the universe is made of string - but multi-dimensional string) and M theory (nobody can agree on what the "M" stands for...)
If that wasn't a serious question, I apologise... I find all this stuff fascinating -but not quite fascinating enough to stomach a degree course.
Probably had a "not too small" H collider in it somewhere!
Or
"There was nothing - which then exploded- creating everything"
Or
"In the begining the was the word, and the word was God"
Or
Two turtles swimming through the voids between planets, headed for the mating grounds and "The Big Bang" (thank you Mr P)
Dont take it to serious Dunc, we the ignorant always make light of that we know so little about.
That's we as in Me
Andy
That's we as in Me
Andy
How can you take reports of the end of the universe seriously?
If they are true - you aint got time to waste being miserable - if they aint - what a laugh!
If they are true - you aint got time to waste being miserable - if they aint - what a laugh!
The thing that upsets me is that a surprising number of people really do take such ideas (about the end of the world) seriously. There are people out there who are really genuinely scared as a result of this nonsense. People who work at CERN have been getting death threats over this.
If we broke the last universe and the big bang created the one we're about to blow up, what triggered the big bang? You must have a spark to kick off the bang.
So this spark.........firesteel, flint or matches.
And.......whatever heavenly body / alien etc caused the spark that triggered the big bang, do you think they owned a bushcraft knife?
And.......if they owed a knife, what do you think they considered to be the best grind? he he,
, mention knife and grind in the same post and this thread is now guaranteed at least a couple of thousand views !!!!!!
Now I'm starting to become a bit silly, must be all that impending doom !!!
Have a great last day.
So this spark.........firesteel, flint or matches.
And.......whatever heavenly body / alien etc caused the spark that triggered the big bang, do you think they owned a bushcraft knife?
And.......if they owed a knife, what do you think they considered to be the best grind? he he,
, mention knife and grind in the same post and this thread is now guaranteed at least a couple of thousand views !!!!!! Now I'm starting to become a bit silly, must be all that impending doom !!!
Have a great last day.
If I have any grasp of the new physics at all, with the non linearity of the time space continuum, It's just faintly possible that we are about to create our own universe. 
Or I could have that completely wrong.
Or I could have that completely wrong.
10.09.08 is this the beginning of our final countdown ???
News this afternoon is that they have accomplished more today than they thought they would have done. After a bit more fine tuning they could be in a position to start the more exciting stuff of creating small collisions within a week or so.
Rich
News this afternoon is that they have accomplished more today than they thought they would have done. After a bit more fine tuning they could be in a position to start the more exciting stuff of creating small collisions within a week or so.
Rich
