Big Bang Day

On Wednesday 10th September the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland is going to be switched on.

They are going to collide protons into each other with energies never before achieved in any scientific experiment.

This could a day as important to our mankind’s history as the moon landings.

Either, we might be able to unify gravity with the electric and nuclear forces. We might be able to make measurements that confirms the existence of the Higg’s field that instills inertia as property of mass. It might be able to recreate conditions which – in theory – was the state shortly after the Big Bang, before the Higg’s field condensed.

Or – if you are going to believe a group who maintain that the high energy collisions will produce black holes which will suck in the whole earth into the size of a pea – it will bring the end of the world. (See Odyssey Five for a fictional plot not unlike this.)

I will be glued to the news on TV and radio like my parents were glued to the crude images on a cathode ray tube during the moon landings in July 1969. I can’t wait for the first experiment to be performed.

What will you do to celebrate Big Bang Day?

Laugh at all the people who think everyone was gonna die.

Well, if things go as planned, I will see it as a major scientific achievement and it will advance our knowledge of the universe. Or, if things go awry, Armageddon is on Wednesday at 8:00-9:00 CET!

^ I agree with Fuzzy ^.

Another popular theory is that even if a black hole is created, it would be so small it would fold in on itself. Besides, I doubt governments/scientists would have given the go ahead if it had the slightest chance of destroying humanity.

Nothing? It’s not like they will be televising the collisions. I will confess to some feelings of pride that we (humans) are doing this…

Laugh at all the people who think everyone was gonna die.

We can find out what the Big Bang was like, but we can’t cure AIDs? >:[

We can find out what the Big Bang was like

Well no, we can’t. We can only very slightly approximate on an infinitesimal scale what it might have been like shortly afterwards.

the two are completely different problems and fields of science anyway.

We can find out what the Big Bang was like, but we can’t cure AIDs? >:[

we can but we won’t :/

The most effective ‘cure’ for AIDS is condoms and sex education, but the catholic church in many African countries has pretty much screwed that up sadly. But anyway yeah, off topic.

if a black hole is created and it is large enough, it will suck us in. those of you who beleive earth is too big you are wrong. in theory, a white hole would have to be created. all the matter sucked into the black hole would be spit out through the white hole…

Which would be awesome.

hell yes

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Re…

i completley blew off that article.. too long P=

The black hole that might be created is so small it would only last for 1/1000 of a second, and unknown to most people, gravity works at the speed of light, so it wouldn’t have time to suck us in.

cliff notes version

This new report confirms and strengthens the conclusion of the 2003 report that there is no basis for any concern about the safety of the LHC. “The LHC safety review has shown that the LHC is perfectly safe,” said Jos Engelen, CERN’s Chief Scientific Officer, “it points out that Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists.”

could you sum up that article in a powerpoint for me? with, like, colorful illustrations?

I thought this was some kinking thing…

We will learn less then we thought we would learn, ITS AN OPINION.

actually, if a black hole was created, it would suck in some matter before self destruction.

actually, if a black hole was created, it would suck in some matter before self destruction.

do you have a degree in advanced quantum physics?

no?

then please stop thinking you know more about what’s going to happen than the people who built the damn thing.

All this does is mimic particles hitting our atmosphere and creating special particles that last for a short time.

actually, if a black hole was created, it would suck in some matter before self destruction.

..no

the speed of light would be able to suck in some matter before its 1/1000 life span is over. i think, unless i read the numbers wrong. i dont think i know more. but based on simple formulas it would be plausible to think such things. pro, do you have a degree in advanced quantom physics? plz let me know if you do so i can call you a dumbshit for being on the best gaming site evar instead of working on life changing inventions.