GoChiefs
Posts: 16,754
Nov 23, 2009 6:39pm
Ok..so I've heard a lot about this thing over the last couple years..but not really paid much attention to it..what the hell is the purpose of it? I know they wasted 10 billion dollars on it..I hear people talking about the end of the world and all that crap..what's the big deal with it?
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Free_is_better
Posts: 252
Nov 23, 2009 6:43pm
Link?
CenterBHSFan
Posts: 6,115
Nov 23, 2009 6:46pm
It's all about anti-matter.
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snyds113
Posts: 749
Nov 23, 2009 6:47pm
They are trying to see what it looked like the moment of creation.
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snyds113
Posts: 749
Nov 23, 2009 6:52pm
If your a God loving person then this experiement is not for you.
Glory Days
Posts: 7,809
Nov 23, 2009 7:10pm
yeah they are hoping to create a mini big bang in the lab basically.
3reppom
Posts: 765
Nov 23, 2009 7:21pm
It is an attempt to create, and more importantly capture anti matter. Definitive proof anti-matter would be the scientific discovery of the century.CenterBHSFan wrote: It's all about anti-matter.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Nov 23, 2009 7:37pm
They are essentially trying to prove that something can be created from nothing. If they succeed it essentially trashes all religions, which is a good thing.
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capninsano
Posts: 411
Nov 23, 2009 7:51pm
Technically they aren't trying to recreate the big bang..as such an event would destroy our universe. They are trying to recreate an environment essentially a split second after the big bang. Their biggest hope is to discover proof that the Higgs Boson exists...which is theoretically believed to be what gives everything in the universe its mass.
nc52
Posts: 419
Nov 23, 2009 8:07pm
otherwise known as the god particle.
CenterBHSFan
Posts: 6,115
Nov 23, 2009 8:24pm
Dan Brown!
thePITman
Posts: 3,867
Nov 23, 2009 8:31pm
Just curious. I'm not a scientist... So it's an experiment that would prove a theory to be correct that another theory is POSSIBLE? So it wouldn't really prove anything? They have to prove that 2nd theory. And if they're duplicating the moment AFTER the big bang, what does that prove in practical terms?capninsano wrote: Technically they aren't trying to recreate the big bang..as such an event would destroy our universe. They are trying to recreate an environment essentially a split second after the big bang. Their biggest hope is to discover proof that the Higgs Boson exists...which is theoretically believed to be what gives everything in the universe its mass.
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capninsano
Posts: 411
Nov 23, 2009 8:44pm
The higgs boson is the part of the big bang theory that scientists currently believe give mass to everything in the universe. The big bang itself didn't give mass to the universe, it was simply the "starting point" of the universe and its processes.
Sage
Posts: 2,070
Nov 23, 2009 9:30pm
I am glad that there are people who pursue this stuff.
It leaves more drugs and fun things for me.
It leaves more drugs and fun things for me.
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jmog
Posts: 6,567
Nov 23, 2009 9:35pm
Actually, since in theory creation is creating something out of nothing, how would this essentially trash all religions?sleeper wrote: They are essentially trying to prove that something can be created from nothing. If they succeed it essentially trashes all religions, which is a good thing.
3reppom
Posts: 765
Nov 23, 2009 9:47pm
It wouldn't. Science could go back to the instant of the big bang and prove whatever theories for the creation of the universe they could but people that believe in god would still claim that god started the process or deny the validity of the findings outright. Because that belief can't be proven to be true or false you are essentially right back where you started. Science isn't concerned with challenging religions and religious peoples beliefs, it is about expanding the base of knowledge about the world and indeed the universe that encompasses all of us.
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kayo
Posts: 126
Nov 23, 2009 9:48pm
Because he felt edgy saying it in the first place?jmog wrote:Actually, since in theory creation is creating something out of nothing, how would this essentially trash all religions?
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Be Nice
Posts: 1,120
Nov 23, 2009 10:05pm
I thought this thread was going to be about Ron Jeremy.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Nov 23, 2009 10:09pm
Because then you don't need GOD!jmog wrote:Actually, since in theory creation is creating something out of nothing, how would this essentially trash all religions?sleeper wrote: They are essentially trying to prove that something can be created from nothing. If they succeed it essentially trashes all religions, which is a good thing.
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CharlieHog
Posts: 102
Nov 23, 2009 10:16pm
ccrunner609 wrote: no matter what they find....it will always be theory.
Cleveland Buck
Posts: 5,126
Nov 23, 2009 10:25pm
If they were trying to create something from nothing, they would just be sitting there watching the empty tube. Since they are colliding particles, they are trying to create something from those particles and the energy to move them into each other. The Laws of Conservation of Energy and Matter are not theories. They are laws. Energy and matter can not be created from nothing, unless it is by something that is not governed by our laws of physics.
thePITman
Posts: 3,867
Nov 23, 2009 10:44pm
I think that is a good statement. But having seeing "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" I'm not so sure that's the truth.3reppom wrote:Science isn't concerned with challenging religions and religious peoples beliefs, it is about expanding the base of knowledge about the world and indeed the universe that encompasses all of us.
CenterBHSFan
Posts: 6,115
Nov 23, 2009 10:51pm
Science, doesn't try to disprove any religion.
Scientists do that.
Scientists do that.
Cleveland Buck
Posts: 5,126
Nov 23, 2009 11:00pm
According to the laws of physics, it is impossible for the universe to exist if it was not created by an external creator that is beyond the laws of our physical existence. What this creator did after that is up for debate, but we wouldn't be here if there wasn't one.
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tuskytuffguy
Posts: 615
Nov 23, 2009 11:08pm
"I" am the big bang atom smasher, or so my wife tells me.