Hadron Collider creates mini Big Bangs

[Candlelight]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/3532061/Hadron-Collider-creates-mini-Big-Bangs

Physicists have smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy, creating thousands of mini-Big Bangs like the primeval explosion that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.
Scientists and engineers in control rooms across the sprawling European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva burst into applause as the US$9.4 billion (NZ$13.25b) project to probe the origins of the cosmos scored its first big success.
"This opens the door to a totally new era of discovery," said CERN's director of research Sergio Bertolucci. "It is a step into the unknown where we will find things we thought were there and perhaps things we didn't know existed."
"It just shows what we can do in pushing knowledge forward on where we came from, how the early universe evolved," CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer said, speaking, like Bertolucci, on a video relay from Tokyo.
Colourful images of the collisions, at the centre of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project which will continue for over a decade, were flashed onto screens across CERN.
CERN scientists say the images reflect what happened a fraction of a second after the Big Bang as matter and energy was spewed out, leading to the formation of galaxies stars and planets, and eventually the appearance of life.

Thought I felt a tingle in my sleep last night.

 

[Guartho]

Oh shit, now somebody's going to try to bomb the Vatican.

 

[Amaris]

I wonder if every time we create a mini big bang, we alter things on the quantum level? This would explain Mondays.

 

[Deks]

It's also possible that for just a short amount of time, we created thousands of miniature universes if we managed to create thousands of big-bangs.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Somewhere, Vern Troyer, Gary Coleman, Emmanuel Lewis, and half the Roloff family just had a simultaneous orgasm. Thanks, CERN.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Smashing news.

 

[Amaris]

Smashing news.

No! No! No!

[/throws monkey wrench at Zion]

 

[Lookingglassman]

Unless this thing can show how God created everything, it is not impressive to me.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I wonder if every time we create a mini big bang, we alter things on the quantum level? This would explain Mondays.

Every time we create a mini Big Bang, God eats a masturbating kitten.

 

[FlyingLemons]

Actually, the LHC doesn't get anywhere near the energy levels that the Bang was at. However, it will allow us to probe things like the quark-gluon plasma matter state with the ALICE experiment, which can teach us an awful lot about conditions a fraction of a second after the Bang.

For the physics of the event itself, you need to study the CMB to see any detailed phenomenon that might have occurred.

 

[Kirby]

It's also possible that for just a short amount of time, we created thousands of miniature universes if we managed to create thousands of big-bangs.

[stoner]
Hey man, what if we exist in a miniature universe that was created by someone else creating big-bangs on a collider and in their time we only existed for a millisecond, but it's like forever for us?
And don't bogart the Cheetos, dude.
[/stoner]

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It's also possible that for just a short amount of time, we created thousands of miniature universes if we managed to create thousands of big-bangs.

[stoner]
Hey man, what if we exist in a miniature universe that was created by someone else creating big-bangs on a collider and in their time we only existed for a millisecond, but it's like forever for us?
And don't bogart the Cheetos, dude.
[/stoner]

Think of the kittens. Those poor, poor kittens.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Actually, the LHC doesn't get anywhere near the energy levels that the Bang was at. However, it will allow us to probe things like the quark-gluon plasma matter state with the ALICE experiment, which can teach us an awful lot about conditions a fraction of a second after the Bang.

For the physics of the event itself, you need to study the CMB to see any detailed phenomenon that might have occurred.

Yeah, that's awesome news. Feels like we are standing on the threshold of a brand new era of discoveries in particle physics. It's a shame journals feel the need to exaggerate and twist the reality of the experiment to get an headline (mini Big Bangs? WTF?).

 

[ancientone51]

we can't have done anything like that...we are still here...at least I think we are.

I post therefore I am?



seriously, good news, great start.

 

[Candlelight]

Unless this thing can show how God created everything, it is not impressive to me.

If anything it's dis-proving it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I heard they sounded like firecrackers.

 

[Lindley]

Unless this thing can show how God created everything, it is not impressive to me.

If anything it's dis-proving it.

Don't be silly, you can't disprove God.

Science and religion aren't at odds; they're orthogonal concepts. One simply can't tell you much about the other in any way.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Well, the LHC is operating, and the world's still here - we haven't turned into strange matter or anything like that. So this basically shoots the conspiracy theory in the foot, right?

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Wow i totally misread the thread title ...

 

[iguana_tonante]

Damn McBundy.