LHC Particle Masher thread... (Quest for "Theory of EVerything")

[04nbod]

Well, that just says it all, doesn't it?

Why do you care? How could this experiment possibly affect your day to day existance besides potentially killing you? Aren't there more important things to do than poke at things that really shouldn't be poked.

 

[Mike_D202]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16583_5-scientific-experiments-most-likely-end-world.html

I say, who hasn't wanted to ride a block hole?....

Being de-atomized? Not me.

 

[PLAS]

I'm sure Hawkins could find an easier way to die than wait for the worlds most expensive and complex machine to turn on.

maybe he's a closet jerk and wants to ruin it for everyone
who knows?

 

[Carcharodon]

Why do you care? How could this experiment possibly affect your day to day existance besides potentially killing you? Aren't there more important things to do than poke at things that really shouldn't be poked.

Pssst...your ignorance is showing.

Cell phones? Computers? All the result of this sort of poking and tinkering, and each one owes its complete existence to major advances in physics.

Advances in physics almost ALWAYS lead to advances in technology. Just because you can't see the applications doesn't mean they aren't there, for everyone, and in a big way. Leave that to the scientists, kid.

Oh, and this thing can't potentially kill me. That's what you don't get. You're so caught up in the ignorant hype and with the frankly stupid perception that these scientists don't care if they destroy the world that you're worrying over absolutely nothing.

I can see your predictable response. "A black hole isn't nothing!" Well, considering that any black hole created by this machine would destroy itself in a couple microseconds and is nowhere NEAR the scale of the black holes occurring in nature, I'd say your worries are unfounded.

Just like the worries of half the people in this thread.

 

[PLAS]

just ask Dr Manhattan

 

[Trainwreck2100]

I'm sure Hawkins could find an easier way to die than wait for the worlds most expensive and complex machine to turn on.

Yeah but what if he wants to take everyone and everything with him?

 

[JLBats]

Are we seriously proposing that Stephen Hawking is a huge *****e who wants the whole planet to die with him?

 

[Carcharodon]

Are we seriously proposing that Stephen Hawking is a huge *****e who wants the whole planet to die with him?

I dunno...the idea is sort of entertaining. t:

He'd be like a real-life supervillain!

 

[JLBats]

...I am stunned.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

I dunno...the idea is sort of entertaining. t:

He'd be like a real-life supervillain!

He could have been driven mad by being the smartest person in the world, and being unable to move on his own while his intellectual inferiors enjoy it and don't value it for what it is.

 

[November Rain]

in all honesty, the amount of money people spend on scientific investigations which can't enrich our way of life in any shape or form in comparison to help feed our fellow man is staggering.

you'll spend billions sending people to the moon while others starve.

To try and answer questions which don't matter.

then again maybe it's naiive to say this when a means may be found for it in the future.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

Or what if our quest to discover what happened during the big bang actually blows us up, but in the process but sends ripples through time that causes the big bang

 

[Carcharodon]

in all honesty, the amount of money people spend on scientific investigations which can't enrich our way of life in any shape or form in comparison to help feed our fellow man is staggering.

you'll spend billions sending people to the moon while others starve.

To try and answer questions which don't matter.

then again maybe it's naiive to say this when a means may be found for it in the future.

Okay, I'll repeat myself: just because you don't see the applications doesn't mean they aren't there. Seemingly useless advances in physics have given us cell phones, computers, and countless other conveniences we use everyday.

What you and others fail to understand is that we're not just trying to figure out how the universe began...we're trying to understand the universe as it exists now. With a better understanding of the rules under which the universe operates, we can better operate within it.

Make sense?

To add to this, let me put this in a different perspective: what you're saying, essentially, is that physics is useless. Physicists try to understand the workings of the universe, matter and energy. It's their job. By calling this exercise useless, you're calling physics universally useless.

 

[Captain Planet!]

I'm not dead yet. WE'VE BEEN JIPPED!!

 

[Yerzrinot]

God will protect us

Bull, only the Space Marine can...

 

[Carcharodon]

Doom ftw!

 

[BlackLantern]

Science is about taking risks.....I think this is a great step forward and can possibly lead to other innovative research...

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I wish they could take these "risks" on another planet. We need to inhabit Mars and declare it "Planet Research" so if there's an explosion or something, it won't suck too bad for us. Unless the whole planet gets F'd up and our orbital path gets messed up

 

[Yerzrinot]

I wish they could take these "risks" on another planet. We need to inhabit Mars and declare it "Planet Research" so if there's an explosion or something, it won't suck too bad for us. Unless the whole planet gets F'd up and our orbital path gets messed up

There's absolutely no evidence that this will create anything dangerous. It's all hype.

 

[BlackLantern]

without risks we wouldn't have a space program, or cell phones, or the internet....

 

[Carcharodon]

I wish they could take these "risks" on another planet. We need to inhabit Mars and declare it "Planet Research" so if there's an explosion or something, it won't suck too bad for us. Unless the whole planet gets F'd up and our orbital path gets messed up

That's the thing...where the hell is the risk? It's overhyped. People hear "black hole" and automatically panic, when 99% of those people have no clue what a black hole is in the first place. Even fewer people know about the potential black hole that would be created in this scenario (read: ****ing harmless).

The "risk" is a figment of the imagination.

 

[Obi-Ron]

The bad stuff can't happen until they fires a second beam to collide with this one

"Don't cross the streams....that would be bad."

 

[Carcharodon]

without risks we wouldn't have a space program, or cell phones, or the internet....

There's no risk. Jesus, this is like pulling teeth.

 

[BlackLantern]

I know that....I just used risk for lack of a better term....this is what science is about...doing stuff like this to find out WHY

 

[chamber-music]

I wish they could take these "risks" on another planet. We need to inhabit Mars and declare it "Planet Research" so if there's an explosion or something, it won't suck too bad for us. Unless the whole planet gets F'd up and our orbital path gets messed up

Well it was gonna be under Teaxas but Clinton pulled he plug in 1993 so all the scientists went to Europe.

Its on the French Swiss border which is a good a place as any to put something potentially dangerous..........unless france gets invaded again....but that won't happen because every scientist with a intrest in physics is working on this thing.

Are we seriously proposing that Stephen Hawking is a huge *****e who wants the whole planet to die with him?

I dunno...the idea is sort of entertaining. t:

He'd be like a real-life supervillain!

So like Hawkins is Samuel L .Jacksons character Mr Glass from Unbreakable now