General Chat

But how exactly can they recreate a "big bang", without actually causing, a "big bang"?

Anyone else getting slightly paranoid about the whole thing? Or just me?

err no paul, no paranoia here, just making a list of questions for the various ancestors when i meet them lol

want a glass of wine??

lol

That is a lot of money for somebody to find. I wonder why.

So when will we know if the experiment has succeeded or will we. Should I bother cooking lasagne tonight in the hope the world won't end until after I've eaten it??

as far as i understand
they are adding matter to anti matter in a vacuum
thus representing the birth of our world as we know it
whether it works or not is another matter
its so simple even Stephen Hawkins understands it

It doesn't matter how much I think about this experiment thing.............I can see no purpose in it.

Other than to keep a vast number of scientists in jobs...............however , the amount of money that has been spent on the project ( by who ?? ) leads me to wonder very much indeed what it actually is for......surely it isn't just to "prove" a theory ?

I'm not worried-I've got my 3 shredded wheat ready.
It said in the advert-Even a black hole can't eat three shredded wheat!!!! lol

Lol .....Eeyore........I'll keep that in mind........lol

It's OK - they have been working on it for 30 years - what a life !!!!

I expect the same comments were levelled at Pasteur, Newton, Curie, the Manhattan Project, etc etc.

If we don't seek out the mysteries of science, we stand still. I would rather progress - look at all the side issues that have arisen from discoveries and research in the past.........who knows what the knock on effects might be.

I think it is immensely exciting and I can't wait to hear and read about the results. It may - just may - change the entire understanding of the universe, creation and space.

Do we actually need to understand the universe,creation and space?

Maybe we should learn to accept that the human brain is only big enough to fit inside the human head. The poor little thing cannot be expected to comprehend everything.

Do we need electricity? It's useful but do we need it?

Do we need to understand anything at all to survive?

Not very much - but I wouldn't fancy living in the stone age, lol.

Some people are fascinated by this sort of research & who knows what information it could unlock in other fields of research.Plus as expensive as it is it makes more sense than sending people into space to build a Space station........for what?

Typical bloke-adverse to dusting.huh.

Yes, a flippant and allegedly derisory reference to the creationist theory, I am told, lol.

Sorry, Rita - I dont understand what you are saying

:-(

The experiment is especially trying to find a particle called the Higgs boson - dubbed the "God Particle". According to the theory, particles acquire their mass through interactions with an all-pervading field carried by the Higgs.

The latest astronomical observations suggest ordinary matter - such as the galaxies, gas, stars and planets - makes up just 4% of the Universe.

The rest is dark matter (23%) and dark energy (73%). Physicists think the LHC could provide clues about the nature of this mysterious "stuff".

Scientists need to try to find what the missing matter is in the universe. Understanding what the universe is made of and how it is made could lead to tremendous leaps forward in technology.

Sue

You know what?......all I keep thinking is how many lifes could have been safed, by the cures created from the money they have spent on this.

Shouldn't that be what really matters?

I can just see Eldrick pulling his woman round by her hair ......

They have been doing some of this work for many years it was just that they couldnt build the tunnel quick enough to do the test all them years back ....but we do have a small one running in England ....

I personally think its fascinating we can learn so much about why and how we are here.

I read about it in a fictional book a Dan Brown one I think and although the book was fictional it did have some truths in it and that was when I first heard of antimatter. And now they are actually managing to achieve this, why shouldnt we question and explore our existance.