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Monday, September 8, 2008

Re-enacting the BIG Bang — NOT!

{link » 'Big Bang Machine' Set to Start Up Wednesday}
The multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider will explore the tiniest particles and come ever closer to re-enacting the big bang, the theory that a colossal explosion created the universe.

Britain's Daily Telegraph reported last week that scientitst
[sic] working on the collider had been receiving death threats, to which University of Manchester particle physicist and former rock star Brian Cox replied, "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat."

[emphasis added]
The real twats in all this doomsday hysteria are [Surprise!] the media. As always, "newsworthy" hysteria sells "news" and scares the shit out of people, some of whom begin frothing at the mouth.

The LHC will attempt to re-enact, for only two-at-a-time colliding protons, the temperature (expressed in energy units) of 14 TeV. That is believed to be the temperature of the entire universe (not just two colliding hydrogen nuclei) a very long cooling-off time (relatively speaking) after the Big Bang — roughly one billionth of a second! During that nanosecond of expansion, the temperature of the universe cooled from an essentially infinite temperature to a comparatively very modest 14 TeV, albeit the work required here on Earth to accelerate two hydrogen nuclei to that combined energy is substantial (for humanity). This is what the LHC has been built at great effort and cost to accomplish.

In order to actually re-create the evolutionary circumstances of the universe, during its first nanosecond of existence would require an "experiment" like the Big Crunch during the last nanosecond of its demise (albeit in reverse chronological order).

I wish, futilely, that the muckraking media would just shut the f*ck up about the Big Bang and stick to their Liberal fascist horseshit.

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