Girl kills herself over LHC experiment

[perfecxionX 10+ year member]

It's been misused by many all through history, and continues today.

what exactly is the proper use of delusion and wishful thinking?

 

[perfecxionX 10+ year member]

wtf is this thing supposed to do exactly that would benefit human life? seems like its just a waste of money...

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24525554/

the mysteries it was built to address are bigger:
* What was the newborn universe made of?

* What causes things to have mass?

* Why is most of that mass hidden?

* Where did all the antimatter go?

* Is our entire universe a mere sliver of all that is?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/10/1357334.aspx

Q: Has it gotten to the point where people can talk about potential applications of the discoveries that might be made at the LHC? I’m sure when the politicians approved this money, they said, OK, you'll find the Higgs boson, but what is the payoff? Is it going to lead to limitless energy or other things that politicians like to talk about to their constituents?
A: We don’t justify CERN or other big particle accelerator laboratories on the basis of spinoffs or technology transfer, or anything like that. Of course, we do have programs for that. Personally, I believe that the most important knowledge transfer that we can make is by training young people who then maybe go off and do something else. I think that’s probably more important than some particular technological widget that we may develop.

I think the primary justification for this sort of science that we do is, fundamental human curiosity. I think people ever since the ancient Greeks and probably a long time before that have wanted to understand how matter is made up, how it behaves, where the universe comes from. And so we are responding, I think, to that continuing human urge.

It’s true, of course, that every previous generation that’s made some breakthrough in understanding nature has seen those discoveries translated into new technologies, new possibilities for the human race. That may well happen with the Higgs boson. Quite frankly, at the moment I don’t see how you can use the Higgs boson for anything useful. But maybe I’m wrong. It’s particularly difficult to predict technological applications decades away in the future.

Q: Anyone who’s tried to predict that a big discovery is not going to make a difference is generally proven wrong, going back to the Wright brothers. A century ago, people were asking whether there'd be any benefit to having airplanes. It's been that way with other innovations as well. You have that unpredictability, I suppose.

A: Right. Or consider Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example. This was pure knowledge. But now, the GPS systems that everybody has in their SUV have to incorporate Einstein’s theory of relativity in order to figure out where they are. Well, an SUV you don’t need to know so accurately. But airplanes, if they’re going to land without making a bump, OK, they have to incorporate both special and general relativity into their calculations of the signals from GPS satellites. So even apparently abstruse things like general relativity turn out to be relevant to the human race. Not back in 1915, when Einstein thought of it, but in 2007, yeah.

 

[Unholysavage 10+ year member]

what exactly is the proper use of delusion and wishful thinking?

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I wished I knew.....

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

Checkmate! Please exit thread with your tail between legs please.
kthxbye

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[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

The team was holding its breath in the countdown to the switch-on after a series of technical hitches, including problems with the cooling system.
The clockwise test went smoothly, and now scientists plan to send the beam counterclockwise.

Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.

The £5 billion machine has been described as a racetrack around which two streams of protons - building blocks of matter - run in opposite directions before smashing into one another.

advertisementReaching 99.99 per cent of the speed of light, each beam will pack as much energy as a Eurostar train travelling at 90 mph.

The flashes from the collisions may help scientists reproduce the conditions that existed during the first moments after the Big Bang at the birth of the universe.

Billed as the world's largest science experiment, the switch-on involved the first stream of subatomic particles - known as Hadrons - being fired into the tunnel, eagerly awaited by 10,000 scientists.

Within an hour they had successfully completed a circuit, signified by two white dots flashing on a computer screen.

The first collisions are expected in around 30 days.

By my calculations we have about 30 or so days until the zombies come. I don't know about you guys, but I hate zombies.

I'm going shopping.

 

[Speedbump3]

**** them to hell for discovering the wheel! Sliced bread must be the root of all evil.....we're humans, and we're not that bright. of course some of us are going to screw up royally. it's called "human nature", not a lack of faith in some "god".

"Power of god" and acting "responsibly", eh?

I disagree - religion is the most irresponsibly used power humanity has ever wielded. It's been misused by many all through history, and continues today.

Like I said. EVERY discovery man has made has been used irresponsibly. We can't even responsibly use the discovery of God responsibly let alone his power.

 

[Speedbump3]

TRUTH
I'm religious but also have common sense. Everyone thinks their religion is the right one and what their religion says is right.

Speedbump3 is a great example..

You are a lost and clueless soul.

 

[Speedbump3]

By my calculations we have about 30 or so days until the zombies come. I don't know about you guys, but I hate zombies.
I'm going shopping.

Not a bad idea. Spur the economy before we all die.

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

This thing has caused one too many deaths already. The experiment should be halted IMHO.

Are you ****ing retarded? If anything the new channel she was watching should be blamed, for stirring up bullshit stories with no factual basis at all. Shut down the retards spreading these bullshit rumors around

IMO

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

I agree. Why worry about the demise of the world when there is an abundance of glorious wanking material on here.

If you knew anything about physics at all you would know the LHC will not cause the demise of the world

god is gay btw

HAIL SATAN!!!!

 

[chunky cumz 10+ year member]

TRUTH
I'm religious but also have common sense. Everyone thinks their religion is the right one and what their religion says is right.

Speedbump3 is a great example..

yeahm speedbump and chevilac are the crazed ****s calling jihads and shyt. psyhco fukin tards

 

[chunky cumz 10+ year member]

By my calculations we have about 30 or so days until the zombies come. I don't know about you guys, but I hate zombies.
I'm going shopping.

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[Unholysavage 10+ year member]

Like I said. EVERY discovery man has made has been used irresponsibly. We can't even responsibly use the discovery of God responsibly let alone his power.

LOL, we sure did discover "god". Just because you believe it to be true, doesn't mean that it is even remotely true (there's a reason they call it "faith" and not "fact"). I read alot of stories of a guy named Jesus, funny that it took several hundred years for the church to come up with the hypostatic union to make him both man and god. Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps a few contradictions in the bible?

I myself welcome the zombie nation. The Flying Spaghetti Monster will save us!

 

[canemaster 10+ year member]

You are a lost and clueless soul.

Matter of opinion foo.