Comments on: World’s Most Powerful Atom Smasher Restarts

By: JibJib

JibJib — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:15:12 +0000

Its about as much chance as making a black hole as it making a pancake made of gold.

By: J.S.-R.

J.S.-R. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:15:46 +0000

yay! *does quantum dance*
Let the science continue!

By: Imagin(ace)tion

Imagin(ace)tion — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:02:44 +0000

@spiderabc – I agree with you on that: worth all of king midas’s gold!

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:39:40 +0000

I wonder what will be scheduled for testing on December 2012 ))) They will surely take a few months off before and after that time, right? lol

By: Dmaco

Dmaco — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:58:05 +0000

haha didnt realise there were such highly strung people posting on this blog these days! i dont see the point in risking ending life itself just to see how it started. But then again, mans destiny is to destroy itself so i guess we’re just following our destiny. Black holes dont sound much fun to me, amazing yes, as long as they arent in the planet!

By: spiderabc1

spiderabc1 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:26:01 +0000

To prove those odd (non-evolution) people wrong it is worth every penny.

By: Berber Anna

Berber Anna — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:56:00 +0000

Courtney: There is a VERY (as in infinitisemally) slight chance that a singularity (black hole without an event horizon) will be created, but it would most likely evaporate very quickly.

Dmaco: Yeah, we could just keep ourselves busy with eating, breeding and having some fun (bread and games, anyone?), but some people are curious to know how the universe works. Can knowledge not be a goal in and of itself? That’s how the best inventions came along — accidentally, while people were investigating things to satisfy their curiosity.

By: JibJib

JibJib — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:23:43 +0000

@Dmaco Wheres your sense of adventure? Who cares what happened after the big bang? You and me where born out of it – and understanding the grander scheme of the universe will eventually make humanity traverse the the known galaxies and create our own universes in multi dimensional realities.

And on top of that…its quite useful. All that technology and data will have spin offs we can only dream of. E.g. You know where the world wide web was developed? Thats right –

C E R N

By: ashley

ashley — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:30:46 +0000

Waste of money??? Certainly not. I guarantee you that no one would would invest in a five billion dollar science experiment if they didnt think there would be some payoff.

And who cares what happened after the big bang??? I wonder what the world would be like if everyone had that same attitude. Does the Sun revolve around the Earth? Who cares! It doesnt affect me. Theory of general relativity? Psssh. HUGE waste of time.

And come on people. This fear of the Large Hadron Collider producing black holes, is all media hype. This is what the media does. They like to freak you out.

The LHC is very exciting and promising!! And I for one, and very happy about it.

By: Dmaco

Dmaco — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:33:21 +0000

this makes me so feckin mad! who cares what happened after the big bang? i personally couldnt care less let alone recreating it. why?? waste of money, and i dont particularly want to implode into a black hole! lol