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 That’s One Big Bang for MankindPosted on Nov 24, 2009
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border made history Monday, smashing two proton beams traveling at near light speed into each other. The LHC, also known as the big bang machine, is the largest machine on Earth and was built to re-create conditions that existed just after the birth of the universe. The collider, housed at CERN, has inspired doomsday warnings, but—for the time being, anyway—we’re still here. Researchers hope to increase the power of their experiments at a steady pace. The scientists at CERN have coped with months of delays and expressed joy that decades of work are finally bearing fruit. One spokesman described the day’s events as “the start of a fantastic era of physics.” The LHC is 17 miles in circumference and is 160 to 570 feet underground. —PZS CERN’s press release here.
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By Caro, November 27, 2009 at 3:44 am Link to this comment
Gerard,
You make a good point, but the scientists I know ARE
worried about combatting ignorance. And,
realistically, that’s not their job.
It should be up to our so-called progressive leaders,
including so-called progressive bloggers, to
illuminate ignorant minds. Instead, in their infinite
wisdom, they have decided it’s more important to win
specific elections that to teach and convince.
And they think they can combat the ignorance either
by ignoring it or by mocking those who have been
misled by a fifty-year, multi-billion dollar,
concerted, and immensely successful PR campaign by
the right wing to keep them ignorant.
I gave up all hope in those people when they used
hateful, right-wing tactics last year to nominate the
least qualified presidential candidate ever fielded
by a major political party.
Carolyn Kay
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By gerard, November 26, 2009 at 8:31 pm Link to this comment
One thing’s for sure: As long as our scientists can keep busy spending money to “roll back the frontiers of knowleldge,” they don’t have to worry about “rolling back the frontiers of ignorance” that would prevent wars, starvation, pollution, greed and insanity.
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, November 24, 2009 at 5:39 pm Link to this comment
Please be assured: If they accidentally create a Black Hole none of us will ever realize that’s what happen-
Report thisBy Caro, November 24, 2009 at 3:41 pm Link to this comment
At least, we THINK we’re still here.
Carolyn Kay
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By The Mad Loon, November 24, 2009 at 3:11 pm Link to this comment
The scary part is that the scientists involved don’t know either. They are just trying out things to see what would happen. This thing has scared me from the start.
Report thisBy samosamo, November 24, 2009 at 3:05 pm Link to this comment
Simply amazing what humans will do to see, feel, hear and experience something
that they will never survive and to tear up so much of the environment to do it and yes, the military IS watching this for their own purposes so my hope is that as these ‘curious’ intellectuals keep upping the power that they will finally
‘experience’ their dream to create a new universe and that would be just fine
because what the human experience on this planet has done is pure hell and the
way to really fix it is to create a new universe.
Kind of reminds me of watching one of those stunt fools many years ago crawl in a wooden box with a few sticks of lighted dynamite and blew himself up, although he survived he was very noticeably ‘not himself’ anymore due to some sort of rearrangement of his brain cells, you know, just like a soldier surviving a IED in iraq.
Report thisBy Virginia777, November 24, 2009 at 12:32 pm Link to this comment
I just worry about possible military funding for this…
Report thisBy Jim Yell, November 24, 2009 at 11:42 am Link to this comment
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No need to worry. If the worst happens the moon won’t be far enough away, nor the edge of the solar system. I have been told that some scientist were convinced that the atom bomb would ignite the atomosphere. Since at lest for now that hasn’t happened, perhaps the machine will not do anything very important. But, then again if it does it won’t matter.
We have the ugly head of increased atomic energy. A process that makes huge radioactive waste and quite simply all the claims that it can be contained for the 10’s of thousands of years necessary to decrease the toxic matter is one great lie. They can’t even and haven’t even contained it for decades and besides it doesn’t take all of that waste to poison everything with radiation. Claiming it can be controlled is like claiming that if you build smokestacks tall enough to lift the toxic smoke above the local environment it won’t be a problem. This is also a lie because there is no local environment, there is only a global environment and it is already stressed to the max.
Hasta La Vista, baby!
Report thisBy gerard, November 24, 2009 at 11:25 am Link to this comment
This item will shut most of us up because we know next to nothing about what is going on over there in the Alps. Pray for rain.
Report thisBy Night-Gaunt, November 24, 2009 at 11:19 am Link to this comment
Lame from before you thought of it and just as deep in the big muddy that is your brain. Go to a bad joke forum please.
Report thisBy coloradokarl, November 24, 2009 at 11:11 am Link to this comment
I once knew a black hole, her name was peaches…oh wait I meant black hoe….My Bad…......
Report thisBy Night-Gaunt, November 24, 2009 at 10:56 am Link to this comment
It is times like these that I just wish they could have put that into space or on the moon just in case.
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