why all the fuss to prove big bang? Shouldn't we be able to see the big bang when we look at the night sky since we are looking into the past???

PWNAGE!

So life imitates art then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_and_demons

and thus, the universe resets.

And then the portal to the Xen world is opened, and then some guy with a crowbar fights off aliens and... :D

8x anti-aliasing! Lawlz!

According to Cox, the probability that the particle accelerator generates a black hole that destroys the planet is "at the level of 10 to the minus 40.q

Uh oh!!!!!

Since Scientists are wrong most of the time, say 10 to the 39th times, that means a 1 in 10 chance of the end of the world?

No even if they do make a black hole it wont eat the earth. The black hole they could make would be a microscopic thing that would dissipate in about 1/100000000000000000000-th of a second. Its gravity field wile intense would never extend beyond about half an atom wide. It might manage to gobble up a stray nuetrol or positron of electron before it goes poof but thats about it.

Great news! ^_^ If we can indeed find "secondary" universes, a la string theory...

it could open up incredible new ideas and technologies for us all.

Like?

Hmmm...want a theory?

How about...faster than light travel? What? Here's my theory of "warp drive" - it's the universe that does it, not the engines. The "engine" will simply create a "bond" between 2 universes - ours, and a universe where the physics are different.

Say, for instance...a universe based on tachyons.

Shunt the excess mass of acceleration over to the tachyon universe, where particles travel slower as they get heavier, and you create a "balance" between forces that (may) overcome Relativity for the accelerating mass. Also...an alternate universe (may) allow teleportation - again, shunt the object into an alternate universe where the mass automatically assumes the state of energy. Their "mass" is our "energy", and visa-versa. Instant loophole around the Conservation laws...because nothing is being created nor destroyed, simply "changed" according to one perspective (ours) but not to the "universe" as a whole.

Hold on to your hats!

Oh oh, is it just me or dose this feel a lot like the beginning of Half-life. I don’t know aboot you but I’m placing my order for a HEV suit and crowbar now…. you know, just in case any Vortigaunts are spit out of the other dimension.

According to Cox, the probability that the particle accelerator generates a black hole that destroys the planet is "at the level of 10 to the minus 40."

Boring guy, and further proof why physicists don't get invited to parties. IIRC, right before the first-ever atomic test, Oppeniheimer was reportedly making bets with other senior project members on the likelihood of incinterating the entire state of New Mexico. (Much to the horror of the junior staffers who overheard them.) Now that's science with a sense of humor.

man... just when i get everything arranged in my house, scientists are going to blow up the world!!

jesus was right, science can only lead to bad things.

Just watch out for Maximillian.

Ok, making black holes and finding new elements and stuff is cool, but how exactly does making a black hole prove the "big bang". Or if they found a parrallel universe or something, again how does this recreate the "big bang"?
Just kinda curious.

Do any scientists know what is on the other side of a black hole?

Never mind. (Double post.)

Its the end of the world as we know it. But if by some miracle of stupidity that we do find another dimension, close it back up, cus there is nothing more fukced up than this world to poison and taint another one. Just take a look at our world leaders! This dimension has got to be the worst, except for the fact that we have TR. LOL!

Also, from what I understand, if you have a black hole, it will just keep destroying matter into molecules as it sucks it up, no?

So, are there any known theories as to how to stop a black hole, once it is created, even at its tiniest of stages?

(1) I fancy a personal mini-BH for my desk, as it surely would reduce the clutter and simultanously offer a decent burial ground for dissappointing hardware.

(2) I really don't like how some scientist let themselves put into places where they admit that they don't know what exactly will happen in a experiment, yet still bow to the pressure from above and face the need to put a number on the risk.

Is that probability nonzero because of FP rounding error? Or is it a philosophical stance on the part of the scientists that there are no events that have literally zero probability?

I ask because it seems impossible that we could generate enough power to create a black hole that could destroy us. I would think chili-dog inspired flatulence would have about the same probability of destroying the Earth...

Greetings!

So, we are creating a new universe?

So, are they going to announce the exact time at which they plan to create their black hole, so that I can use it as a good pick up line in the local bars, downtown.

"Hey, hey. What's up? So, are you aware that the world is about to end...(explanation of black hole, yada yada yada, realize the same thing has already been created in her head)...so how about you and I" whisper ending in ear, and I'm off to celebrate. Thank you science!!!

I will laugh if it does create a black hole that destorys us all.

wtf, a real black hole? I don't want to see them in real life, keep them in sci-fi movies, please!

Iran ppl wouldn't be too happy, why should they stop developing A-bombs while we move to the nexe level: B-Bombs, bombs that creates a black hole and sucks in an entire city without a trace.

So how does the new particles prove evidence of a multi-dimensional universe anyway?

So, you're saying, I could have entire universe on the tip of my finger?!

Can I buy some weed from you?

I wonder if this is how our universe was created.

Famous last words. I can think of worse ways to die than a black hole though, so bring it on.

reminds me of a discovery special that pretty much proposes this, among others, as a possible "end of earth" escenario. Some scientists want to do some experiments with a particle accelerator things go wrong etc etc black hole eat us all. oh and FP! :P.